Do you buy magazines if so which ones

I used to love magazines, especially Spare Rib and Cosmopolitan. However nowadays you can buy a paperback book from a supermarket for the same price as a magazine.

I like Surface, Wallpaper, Interiors and Selvedge among others. I don’t have subscriptions to any of them any more but do read them when I’m in a library that stocks them or occasional purchase when traveling. I also like Vogue, Harper’s, Conde Nast Traveller, Elle Decoration and the National Geographic. These five come regularly into my “news feed”. I look forward to pieces from other magazines there too - Futurism, Dezeen and even Popular Mechanics!

Who knows Tx, if you write to them, probably to their PR department, they will be glad to post one to you monthly. No harm in trying.

You will no doubt take this as proof of insanity, but I would give anything for a great big stack of Sainsbury Magazine. I fell in love with it during our years in the U.K.

I get the Oldie and Fortean Times, both on subscription. I look forward to them being delivered immensely.
I used to buy Spare Rib and Honey.

Magazines are my one “luxury” treat all on subscription which is quite a bit cheaper than buying single copies and of course then they get delivered.

I have Woman’s Weekly and monthly Prima, Good Housekeeping, and Woman and Home .

I subscribe to Readly an app which costs £8 a month. You get access to most magazines and up to 5 people can share it. . I use it mainly for knitting and crochet patterns.
It’s not as nice as a magazine coming through the letter box but you can read more of them.
It’s also easy to stop and start your subscription.

My mother used to take Woman's Journal in the 50s and 60s. It always had a very good serial. Georgette Heyer romances were serialised and I remember at least one by Elizabeth Goudge. It was also good for knitting patterns and in my teens I knitted a lovely 3-ply navy jacket and a dark red chunkier one. When the Journal arrived, I willed my mum to get through it quickly so that I could catch up with the serials and enjoy the short stories. I suppose it was just too good to last. I don't buy any magazines.

When I lived in Australia I used to buy the Australian Woman's Weekly, (a monthly magazine!) which was like an old fashioned Good Housekeeping, and I really enjoyed it. I also used to buy Cleo which was was aimed at the younger woman.

I hate all those stories of women who started their own multi-million pound businesses at their kitchen tables while breastfeeding quads and home-schooling their previous set of quads, and renovating an old barn they picked up for a song which is now worth eleventy-million-pounds, and growing their own organic veg on their smallholding and being the lynchpin of their local community.

Jealous, me? Miaow!

Same annsixty, I get Good Housekeeping free with my bank account. Not the same as it used to be. Full of smug women who have become successful with their own businesses. Same reason I don't read Woman and Home. Recipes too weird as well..

I buy Simply Crochet. As you can tell, it's my hobby.?
I used to buy Jackie every week too, my, that seems a lifetime ago.

Don't forget that if you are a library member and you log in to your account you can use RB digital and Press Reader to read lots of magazines online. Some of those mentioned already are on there such as Red, Prima, Good Housekeeping Woman's Own but Press Reader has hundreds of different types of magazines, not to mention most of the newspapers. All this for free.

The last magazine I bought regularly was Jackie, and that was a l-o-n-g time ago. But I do have a subscription to Private Eye which one of my kids bought me for Christmas.

When I was a child I loved to read my mother`s magazines, Woman`s Weekly, another similar one, and Red Letter. When I was a teenager I bought Valentine, Reveille, and Honey. After I got married it was Woman and Woman`s Own, then abandoned them in favour of Take a Break. Now I just have TV Times on an annual subscription, and I occasionally buy People`s Friend, a nice, friendly magazine.

I get loads of magazines on my Kindle Fire from our library. I get so many I find it difficult to keep up with then as they are sent every week or month . I would not waste my money buying them but enjoy a quick read on line .

Merlotgran try Landscape. It’s balm to frayed nerves. www.landscapemagazine.co.uk/

I work my way through a pile at the hairdresser, whatever they've got Red, Elle, Grazia and all the trashy ones like Heat I haven't bought a magazine for years, not even at the airport, waste of money!

I've cancelled our magazine subscriptions to cut down on deliveries. I've even cancelled my RHS subscription because it was due for renewal and I won't be able to go on any garden visits for the foreseeable. Not just because of coronavirus but DH can no longer cope with long walks.

I used to subscribe to Gardens Illustrated and Country Living but after a year or so they become repetitive.

I buy puzzle magazines because I don't like to just sit idle in front of the TV.
My sister buys all the monthly glossy magazines and passes them on to me, I rarely find them interesting but it keeps me up to date with what's fashionable.

Homes and Antiques on subscription. My OH has Fortean Times but recently received an email to say that they were suspending publication for the time being.

I do buy magazines , I read Cycling Weekly as I follow the sport I used to take part in.
I get the TV Choice , but I usually get Rail related magazines as well this as stop due the lockdown , but guessing like many are struggling to find stories or up to date info since the lockdown.
Mick

My new favourite magazine is Landscape. It’s a beautifully produced magazine with wonderful photos and snippets of appropriate quotations dotted throughout. It focuses on the passing seasons and each month it showcases a town or area, it describes a pleasant walk to take, has garden tips, recipes, environmental articles. No celebrities or gossip or anything like that!

I get it on subscription using Tesco points.

Normally I read magazines in the hairdressers each month. I buy' Woman's Weekly' and 'The Oldie' and swap with a friend who gives me 'Homes and Antiques' as well as any gardening ones she's bought. I used to buy a lot more but find them too expensive other than as an occasional treat.

Magazines are my luxury, well I do not smoke and rarely drink. I have little or no interest in fashion magazines. I buy house magazines: Country Living and Period Home, DH has the New Scientist and the Spectator. We get the magazines from National Trust, English Heritage and Historic Houses Association and another called Listed Home, because we live in one. Then as an enthusiastic amateur archaeologist I get the two 'popular' archaeology magazines, Current Archaeology and British Archaeology.