Do you buy magazines if so which ones

I love the Lady, but only buy it occasionally as it is £5.95 - I always read the job adverts at the back, these are normally for housekeepers, butlers etc. They just amaze me as to how much employer expect from their employees - a totally different world from mine. I also buy Woman's weekly, and Take a Break. My neighbours and I normally pass them between each other, but due to this virus, we dare not do that. Sometimes I wonder if the magazine editors struggle to find 'new' subjects and articles to print, and are kind of re-inventing the wheel.

I get Good Housekeeping monthly from my bank as a freebie.
It costs £4:99 to buy and I would feel very cheated If I actually paid for it.
It is now nothing like GH used to be when I was a young wife and mother
It devotes several pages to very successful women, telling us just how successful they are and what well rounded and fulfilled individuals they are.
This month has contributions from mothers and daughters who have taught each other how to be financial wizards, I am sure you get the picture.
The cookery section has been going for so long all they can produce are mostly weird (to me) concoctions mostly using chillies.
Furnishings are always beyond my pocket.
I do not buy any others.

I’m with you there annsixty I used to have GH on a subscription and looked forward to it . Nowadays is just as you say....full of wonderfully successful women bragging about their own success and adverts for clothes at extortionate prices.

'Yours' magazine. Absolutely the best for the over 50's.
I have it on subscrition and it's delivered fortnightly.
I'm not keen on modern glossy mags that are just full of adverts and endless fashion which I can't afford.
Occasionally I buy Take a Break as I like entering the competitions.
And a TV guide every week.

Stopped subscribing long ago, for many of the reasons PPs have mentioned.
I now just get the RHS members monthly gardening magazine, handy tips and beautiful gardens to visit ( soon I hope!)
I did like Landscapes because there were very interesting articles, good recipes and few adverts. But even that became repetitive.

I have Prima on subscription. Always look forward to it’s arrival. Keeps me in touch with what’s interesting in British shops.......and comes with a free dress pattern .

Good Housekeeping still the best, with a good mix of topics. The name makes it sound a bit old fashioned but it's really quite interesting. I read that they were planning to change it but readers were against it.

I have ‘Radio Times’ and ‘Homes & Antiques’, both on annual subscriptions of many years standing.
My partner has subscriptions for ‘Which’ and ‘The Pianist’.

We don’t buy any additional ones, as we already have enough ‘stuff’ cluttering up our house !

I have ‘Radio Times’ and ‘Homes & Antiques’, both on annual subscriptions of many years standing.
My partner has subscriptions for ‘Which’ and ‘The Pianist’.

We don’t buy any additional ones, as we already have enough ‘stuff’ cluttering up our house !

Used to buy magazines quite often. Very rarely buy them now, haven’t they got expensive! I borrow them from the library, Good Housekeeping, BBC History mag and Gardeners’ World. Obviously I will be about three copies in arrears by the time I get let out). Not sure if they have them on line, will have a look. I agree with those who say GH isn’t a patch on its former self. Mind you I used to read Woman and Woman’s Own all the time. They are awful now. Other awful mags are probably available.

I used to have House Beautiful on subscription, but they kept putting it up and there are a lot of adverts. I still miss it, but to be honest it made me feel discontent as I used to wish I had done this and that in my house.

I have Prima and WomanyWeekly. Most of the others have too much that is just advertising.
I used to buy craft magazines but now there is so much online.

No I never buy a magazine unless I m travelling I have cosmopolitan sent to me by my bank every month (some useless scheme to make me think I m getting something important) and don’t even bother to open it I pass it straight in to a friend it’s just full of nothing that interest me at all

I have recently started to buy What's on TV each week as i found that i didn't have time to read a newspaper every day. Use to buy a paper every day then reduced to a Tuesday and Saturday for tv mag but they remained largely unread. This mag is perfect and I am able to read paper on line.

Since the lockdown. I found offers for 6 issues at a £1 each of , GH , Prima and Woman’s Weekly, , I wouldn’t subscribe normally to GH as it is very different to how it was, full of expensive clothing. Eg. Skirt £499 , Blouse £250. And as a previous poster said full of successful business women saying how they turn their life around and bragging about it all,
I like Woman’s weekly it’s a lot more downto earth , I like the short stories gardening hints and craft , I like Prima for the same reasons and you get a free pattern every month, Not sure I will carry on with the mags when we are all over the lockdown but for the time being at a £1 an issue. It’s good value and something to read ,

I could chart my life in magazines; always had one as a little luxury. I read my grandma's Woman's Weekly,and my mother's Woman's Journal; I started with Woman's Own, wasn't allowed Honey because it was too expensive, then the wonderful Woman's Mirror, (Marge Proops, Penny Vincenzi, Irma Kurtz et al) then Nova, onto Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping when I married, then Woman and Home, until I discovered all the home magazine porn: Ideal Home, Country Homes and Interiors, 25 Beautiful Homes.

Given them all up now, as they are repetitive, over-priced, and not about homes, but about the wives of husbands in 'banking' with more money than sense, and their interior designers; there is increasingly a little note at the end to say this beautiful property is available as a holiday let, at an eye-watering rate.
(I do read an awful lot of books as well.)

I had high hopes of the new magazine ‘Platinum” but after the first edition it was just as boring and facile as all the others.

They’re all just bubblegum. I can read/flick through a whole magazine n 15 minutes or less.

I gave up my subscription to GH, for much the same reasons as mentioned above. Mostly I buy what I fancy at the time, but often Country Living. My DD gets Landscape, which she passes on to me. Love this

I have the RSPB magazine and the SAA (Society for all Artists),
The Spectator and TV Times. They all interest me but I just read them as and when. So different to my youth because then I was so impatient to receive my magazines and would sit on the stairs awaiting delivery!

I buy Take a Break the articles are often trashy but I love the crossword and other puzzles. I also buy Yours which is aimed at our generation so the fashion and beauty tips are more appropriate.
Occasionally buy House & Home or similar

I subscribe to the Radio Times and I buy other magazines e.g Gardner’s World, Good Housekeeping etc if the current issues interest me but not every month.

I do buy mags but not the trash like Take a Break or sleb mags (Hello)
I buy
Country Living
Woman & Home
Country Life
Good Housekeeping
Elle*
Red*
Olive*
Good Food*
The first 4 I buy are £6 for 6 copies sent monthly, usually from Hearst mags.
I make a note of the end date and unsubscribe the month before.
At that time I take out further subs with another agency for the same mags at same price...and so on.
The asterisked mags are occasional add ons, only 1 or 2 a couple of times a year if on offer.

BTW, The Lady mag is on offer at £3 for 3 copies via Hearst.

My friend and I take it in turns to get GH and W&H. Usually if one of us is visiting UK or we know some one who is.
I enjoy browsing through them but couldn't afford a regular subscription.
We can get Radio Times here, there are interesting articles in there as well as TV programmes.

I love magazines, they have always been my little luxury enjoyed at my breakfast coffee before the family woke up.

I try to buy Canadian ones, since the content is more relevant to me, and also the sources whether it is clothing or furnishings. I have for more than 30 years had a subscription to Canadian Living, which would probably be very similar to Good Housekeeping.

I read 2 or 3 different ones a month. The above one, plus either a home and decor or a gardening one. I bring them to either the senior's centre or the hospital lobby afterwards.