Do you buy or read magazines?

I don't bother with any magazines that are full of celebrities or fashion, but have just bought a subscription to Good Food magazine with Tesco vouchers. It will be something to look forward to getting each month and I may find new recipes to try.

I prefer books but I like a magazine as well.
I don't like online format.
I have a subscription for Good Housekeeping. Also Landscape which was a present from a friend. I'm not sure I like it enough to continue.
Also get Radio Times, U3A and civil service Pensioner, which I browse through. Now and again I buy one like Bella but always wonder why I wasted my money.

I buy Cross Stitcher magazine. (It's from the UK but we can get it in Canada, albeit a couple months behind.) I also get magazines from our national nursing organization and our provincial nursing licensing body

I love magazines. I've subscribe to Canadian Living for over 25 years. The last year it has gotten awfully thin, though. Maybe all their people are working from home as well, and articles and photoshoots are increasingly hard to accomplish. I do find the recipes have gotten a bit new age for me, but they still have good baking recipes. My daughter has discovered it and is buying it as well now.

I also buy home decorating and gardening magazines. I find them light reading for my coffee in the morning when I am not ready for serious news, and don't really have time to get into the latest book.

I never do now. I don’t know if it’s me but they seem to be more trashy now and focussed on film and tv people that I am not interested in. I used to get New Idea many years ago . I used to read them at the doctor’s surgery but with Covid they have got rid of them all as a possible source of infection .

I used to buy a copy of Yours to read on the train in the old days (when we travelled). Now I get the Radio Times delivered so I can read about the programmes and select my viewing for the next day. I do enjoy a quick flick through the trashy mags in the doctor's waiting room but would never buy ones.

Can you play the guitar, JanetG? ?

Oh yes - but I'd get halfway through an article then they'd whizz me off for a shampo

I used to love reading the gossip mags at the hairdressers - but obviously not any more! Take a Break etc - what strange lives people lead!
I badly need a haircut, my post chemo curls are getting more like Brian May every day.

I used to occasionally buy a GoodHousekeeping but not any more. The same celebs are trotted out time after time - Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, Twiggy, Dawn French etc. I prefer the magazine that comes with the Saturday newspaper.

The library offers a wide selection of free magazines to read on phones and tablets. Well worth investigating if you haven't already done so. Look on your local authority website under libraries for information.

I subscribe to 'Good Housekeeping'. I'm getting a bit fed up of it though as all the recipes have got a bit 'weird' recently - full of tofu and mung beans!

I have Landscape on subscription. You can get it pretty cheaply with Tesco Club Card.

I sometimes get Sainsbury’s magazine. In fact, I need to contact them as they recently took a £9 direct debit from my bank account!

FannyCornforth

Geekesse you have staff?!
Blimey! I have a subscription for Private Eye. I think that's where our similarities end!

Nope! I said ‘if I were looking for staff’...

But I am not.

Before Lockdown, my lovely hairdresser used to give me boxes of magazines to save recycling them. They were only a couple of months out of date.
My neighbours got the gossip ones, my husband the golf ones, which he passed onto a neighbour, my daughter the foodie ones and I kept all the ones like Prima, Good Housekeeping etc.
They were then passed round all the neighbours.
Unfortunately lockdown put a stop to that.

I now have a subscription for Ideal Home. and sometimes add a magazine to my online grocery delivery.

Don't buy them anymore although I used to buy a few. Read history magazines online through the library.

Somehow I have started getting an online copy of Good Homes magazine - no idea where it came from. I've never bought it, it just suddenly turned up in my inbox on day and I get it every month now.

DH has National Geographic and New Scientist so I do read those sometimes.

I took the Good Food magazine for years until I decided it didn’t make me a better cook and I just ended up with piles of recipes I had to file away and store. I used to buy a walking magazine, and then, when I took up fly fishing, I had a subscription to Trout Fisherman, which was useful and instructive at the outset. The problem with this sort of magazine is that eventually, the same articles keep coming round again in slightly different guises. There are only so many ways you can fool a fish into taking your fly after all! DH also had a subscription to National Geographic.

Gardeners’ World
RHS The Garden
Free Waitrose Mag

Thinking of subscribing again to ‘Country Living’.

Private Eye - I’ve had a subscription for decades.
House and Garden subscription
Delicious subscription
Free Waitrose magazine

I used to buy magazines at the airport. One year we were going to The Gambia and I opened my magazine to a title 'Granny went to Gambia and came back with Aids'.

I can quite understand how that happened once I saw how the British grannies behave there!

Oh, for an edit button !

No.
But - Yes, I do, eventually

I get magazines from associations I joined eg U3A and ignore them until I have a clear out then spend an afternoon reading them before they go into the recycling.

I rarely buy monthly magazines unless they are craft magazines, then rarely.

Yes. I have a Woman and Home subscription and then pass each issue to a friend.
Always had a magazine as a teenager. “Diana” was my favourite.

I have a subscription to Country Living mag through Tesco Clubcard points. I occasionally buy Reclaim mag as I’m interested in vintage, but mags are so expensive now. When we www.newsstand.co.uk/ go camping in France I buy Marie Claire Idees for the art and craft ideas. I also occasionally browse the Newsstand site and might buy an unusual foreign magazine from there - www.newsstand.co.uk/

I know you can get free magazines online but I'm not keen on that format. For my birthday I always ask for a subscription to Yours magazine. I find it varied and interesting.