Do you enjoy magazines?

For several years I enjoyed Landscape and swapped it with a friend for her Good Housekeeping and then when she moved away swapped it for Country Living with another friend.

But honestly they have changed over the years. Much less of interest for me. Too much advertising. My DD has Coast and brought me her 2023 copies at Christmas. So I shall read through them and pass them on. I was brought up by the sea so I do enjoy the articles especially any about the Kent coast.

However nothing brings me as much pleasure as Petticoat and Honey brought me as a young teenager. A cousin gave me a pile of Honeys one summer. Bliss.

I used to buy a Woman's Weekly if I ever had a long train journey and I often struck lucky with lots to read. Qa d would leave it on the train for someone else to read. But haven't been on a train trip for ages and ages.

Well now you're talking HelterSkelter, I loved the heady days of Petticoat, Honey and other magazines of our youthful era, so have we changed or is it the magazines? I seem to remember more content and less advertising then, or maybe that's my mind playing tricks.

Oh, I loved Petticoat. Think it cost 1/-.

Kathy’s Crowd, Dodie Wells Problem Page… I remember someone asked “How do you know when you’re in love?”

Her reply was “When that person’s happiness is more important than your own”.

That always stuck with me.

I still have a huge pile of tatty, well-thumbed Petticoats in the loft.

Halcyon days.

I absolutely love the 'Oldie'. Such good articles and features. Generally very funny but with serious aspects too. It's out once a month and I have to save if for when I've got a decent amount of time to read it as I get so absorbed in it it's hard to stop reading.

I have The Garden but the price is included in my RHS membership fee.

What an excellent idea to split the cost of a subscription sodapop!

I made a great discovery yesterday. I found out there is a kindle app which can be added to the iPad which then becomes a kindle.And its free.I was then able to add my library card to get free magazines and books.

I didn't even look at magazines in the dentist's pre-Covid! I certainly can't think of one I'd pay to read.

I get free magazines through the Libby app from our library. I'm sure other libraries have the same facility. There are hundreds to choose from. I usually get Radio Times, The Oldie and National Geographic. Also free e-books and audio books with the Borrowbox app from the library.

I occasionally read Waterways World, Canal Boat, Trail, and Country Walking.

I don’t mind the adverts as they are often for things I’m interested in.

A friend sometimes tries to pass on a bag full of various magazines which had been passed on to her.
I used to take them but now refuse as they hpgo straight into our recycling bin instead of gophers.

I used to glance through the ones at the hairdressers before they stopped them.

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I used to love magazines, and could chart my life from Woman's Mirror, Nova, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Woman and Home, Ideal Home, Country Homes and interiors, 25 Beautiful Homes plus a few others i have forgotten.
Now they are very expensive, very full of adverts, little written content and expensive, unrealistic designer clothes and furniture.
It used to be a treat. Very rarely buy one now.

Yes, I used to buy some of those years ago but the last ne I bought was a How to Crochet magazine with "free" yarn. It was in about 25 parts and I bought three.

Going back to Honey magazine. There was a monthly article about the Jay twins, sisters of Peter Jay UK amabassador to the US , who were such pretty teenage girls doing wonderful things in London. Parties fashion haircuts etc. I so wanted to be them.

They are now very nearly 80 so I have just Googled. How can that be true!!!!

And original Honey copies sell on eBay for ££s. I should have kept my copies.

We get Country Living as a freebie with a bank account. It sometimes has interesting articles but has a lot of adverts for posh craft stuff, etc. Also Saga Mag - good for a quick skim: the money and health columns are sometimes relevant. Also the Guardian colour supp on Saturdays but it seems to have gone downhill and is aimed at youf.

I love reading magazines and have the Readly app for £9.99 per month. There’s a huge selection of magazines and definitely worth investigating.
gb.readly.com/

I used to love them - decades ago - but now read them online. No, it's not the same but it's cheaper.

I get an art magazine every month and usually buy Woman's Weekly for a quick read. I also have a subscription for a quarterly cookery magazine from America.

Magazines are great when you're at the hairdressers - love flicking through Closer, Heat, OK, etc whilst 're-blonding'.
I haven't bought magazines for years - seem very expensive compared to the whole WWW of information, articles, gossip, etc out there.

I don't buy magazines but I read an art magazine online courtesy of the library. It must be 45 years ago when I sometimes bought Women's Weekly for the recipes and the children's story called "The Robins". Anyone remember that?

My neighbour buys all the women’s magazines there are, and then passes them to me - she must spend a fortune on them

Good housekeeping is a regular, , sometimes Platinum.

Not any more. Most of them lost me when they went on and on about boring celebrities, half of whom I had never heard of. I used to like New Idea once.

I loved The Robins as a child CocoPops. Mum bought the magazine for as long as I can remember. Mainly for the knitting patterns she said.

Woman’s Weekly, who remembers ‘Mary Marriot Advises’?

A sweet, grey haired lady looked out from the page, dispensing wise, kindly advice on readers’ problems. Nothing too racy or controversial, more to do with etiquette and rather class oriented.

No one sleeping with the neighbours husband or getting drunk and pregnant after a one night stand. Mary would have needed a strong dose of smelling salts!

I have bought and loved a variety of magazines over the years from Twinkle to Cosmopolitan! Nothing beats that small pleasure of arriving home from the shops,making a coffee and opening a new magazine-online not quite the same.
I used to enjoy Woman's Weekly-good recipes and a dose of nostalgia as my mum always bought it.
In the late 1990s I enjoyed Take a Break for the competitions and at the time family stories. I still occasionally buy it but the stories now seem over sensational! Magazines such as Woman's Own now seem more celebrity based and not my thing.
Several years ago I came across a magazine called Yours. So far I haven't seen it mentioned on this thread. I highly recommend! It's target group is the over 50s but it really has something for everyone. Some celebrity interviews, cookery,crafts,puzzles,stories, advice,fashion,very good health articles,consumer sections and some nostalgia! It has a bright and positive format and every year I ask for a subscription as a Christmas present. Highly recommend!