Do you buy magazines if so which ones

I have Woman's Weekly and Yours on subscription (Christmas gifts from daughter and son).
I would buy Take a Break but I don't want to buy a magazine with something like "I was abused by my cousin's uncle's best friend but nobody believed me etc..........." on the front cover and more of the same inside - I just want to do the puzzles and enter the competitions not be upset by it all.
A bit off thread but my son has arranged for my newspaper to be delivered for the time being to stop me going out and I LOVE having the paper there on the mat when I get up

I know that Gabriella but I have had my current account with them for many, many years
I am no longer worried about interest rates, I will be 83 shortly and am not worrying about the future.
My income is adequate and if I want something I buy it.
I realise that younger people do need to watch rates very closely and I count myself lucky.

We get Country Walking mag which is lovely but little use at the moment. Sometimes I treat myself to Simply Crochet but I never like to get rid of them just in case there’s something I may need later so I have a pile of them under the bed gathering dust.

I don`t buy any mags at all.
I buy the saturday daily mail and thats it.

I used to have Gardener's World on subscription but found the glossy paper difficult to read and the smell was very chemical.
I now have a subscription to Amateur Gardening, it is weekly, down to earth and NO glossy paper.

I love all the magazines like Ideal Home and House Beautiful but I only buy them once in a blue moon as they’re so expensive. I love looking at all the beautiful rooms and expensive furniture.
A cousin I have never met but who found us through an ancestry site, once sent us as a gift a subscription for Cheshire Life.
It made us laugh no end, as we sat in our humble terraced house, having returned from our usual prowl of Poundland and B & M

I used to buy Psychologies magazine but too expensive now.Yours is a good value regular and I sometimes buy Coast magazine, expensive but lovely to see the homes and places on our coast. Occasionally I treat myself to a craft magazine when I see something interesting.

I read a lot more magazines since PEMD diagnosis means three months uncomfortable treatment sometimes twice a year. I am an avid book reader but my concentration goes to pot.

I get Yours magazine delivered once a fortnight as part of my Christmas present. Has articles, information and short stories that interest me. Active carers and bereavement groups which seem helpful if you are in that position.

Woman’s Weekly partly for the crosswords and puzzles that are the right level for me. My Weekly possibly because it was the first magazine I used to buy myself? Still read some of the stories. Recently bought People’s Friend which looks very old fashioned but has enough to interest me.

Occasionally Prima is offered with a couple of other glossy magazines included so I buy that.

I used to buy Woman & Woman’s Own but they changed and became “The new postman knocked on the door. He was so good looking. Next thing I knew I was pregnant with triplets”.
The mothers always died in their stories as well - not good when you have a cancer diagnosis!

The glossies now seem to be mainly advertisements for exorbitantly priced clothes, make up, skincare etc. I can’t imagine paying those prices if I won a lottery roll over. Not likely as I don’t buy a ticket. OH does when the amount is high enough! Only 20m will do!???

Saw that annsixty but the bank doesn't have any decent savings accounts.

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.

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 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.

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 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 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 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 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 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.)

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 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 !