Do you enjoy magazines?

My DH gets the TV & Satellite magazine each week. I subscribe to Lovatts puzzle books and enter the prize puzzles. I've had a few wins but nothing amazing. We get the Christmas Radio Times as we love the Christmas picture quiz.
I never buy anything else as they are just a waste of money.

I have two on subscription . Prima as a monthly one, Woman’s Weekly every week which I read from cover to cover , both have puzzles in which I enjoy .

I used to subscribe to two others but cancelled them as not such a good fit and decided to save the money. I pass them on to a friend

The Economist. I read it on my laptop.

In common with many others here, I used to enjoy magazines from childhood onwards but stopped buying them years ago because they became too expensive and most of the women’s magazines were full of celebrity interviews, sensational stories, dramatic weight loss and adverts. As a small child, I had Pippin and/or Jack and Jill. My grandparents owned a newsagents’ shop at this time so I was often treated to a comic. As I grew older, l liked Judy, Bunty and Diana and, as a teenager, it was, of course, Jackie. As an adult, I enjoyed Bella and Best when they first started but they are the same as the rest now. My grandmother liked Woman’s Weekly and my mother liked My Weekly. I used to enjoy reading them from the age of nine or ten - nothing to offend innocent eyes there! For a while, I enjoyed Classic FM magazine and BBC Music magazine but stopped when they became too expensive and I had enough CDs. Similarly, I occasionally bought writers’ magazines as I had delusions of writing a bestseller one day. Several years ago, I left a bag of magazines l had bought for myself and family members in the bank. I was able to get through to my branch and had to describe what was in the bag. As I went through the list of titles - Airliner World, Rail, BBC Music magazine - I could almost hear the person at the other end of the line thinking that we were a family of anoraks.

I stopped buying magazine a while back. I used to take Gardeners World, Good Food and, later, Trout Fisherman and learned a lot from all of them, but take them for long enough and you see the same articles rehashed again and again. And of course, they mount up and take up lots of space. So I stopped.

I treated myself to a one-off prima sub this christmas, I don`t normally buy magazines but I enjoyed the one prima that I bought a few months ago. I signed up to get the free pattern every month. It is worth it for that alone. This months is a dress that I will make

I used to love when my Good Housekeepng arrived- it had so much in it which interested me. Then we planned a move to the country and I added in Country Living , but soon found that it was more Daylesford Farm Shop and Chiantishire than my muddy village.
But still.
Now I find them glossy and expensive, full of ads, dropping leaflets and flyers everywhere, stuffed with articles about women who have reinvented their lives /started a multi million pound business on the kitchen table or climbed Kilimanjaro with a ton of HRT on their back.
They mostly seem to have a lot in common - spiky heels, big hair, expensive frocks- oh and a failed marriage or two by the wayside.
I miss the old days!

I have taken Country Living for years and wouldn’t want to give it up, there’s a lot more in it than “shabby chic” GSM! But I do agree that there are far too many ads. I pass it on to a friend and hope she too passes it on!

They are now too expensive and the content often irrelevant to me now, Good Housekeeping for example. I would still like computer and gardening ones, again, I don’t buy because of the prices. My only one now is BBC Science Focus which I have on subscription. No celebs or adverts and every page interesting. No, I don’t work for them!

I'm not a fan of magazines anymore .
Apart from disliking the lay-out of most of them - I just find them expensive and disappointing :

I used to buy Prima for the free enclosed pattern .
I used to do the competitions in Good Housekeeping - but that was a long time ago .
I bought both of them at Christmas and they'll be passed on to a housebound person - pretty much unread .

The only magazine that I might buy is National Geographic , which I can read and re-read .
Perhaps , I've changed !

I do enjoy magazines but am not keen on some modern ones which obviously cater for the younger, smarter women than me and are full of adverts. And they are so expensive.
But I do like Yours which is for more mature women. I used to subscribe but now just buy it when I feel the need.
Also, three of us neighbours here circulate two favourite mags, Saga and The Oldie, amongst ourselves before passing them on to charity shops.
At Christmas I always buy myself a little selection of magazines, Woman, Best, Take a Break, as a treat.

Country Gardener is free from garden centres and National Trust properties in the South West. There’s Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Wiltshire editions. It comes out monthly. You can look it up and read some articles for free online. It has places to visit, events and general gardening articles and is a very interesting read.

I had a subscription to Good Housekeeping for years but gave up on it after it became full of celebrity interviews and advertising. My dear late sister and I bought Family Circle for years and she never threw hers away. She could go to the stack and pull out one with a favourite recipe. I doubt if my brother in law has kept them!

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!

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 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.

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.

Good housekeeping is a regular, , sometimes Platinum.

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

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?

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 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.

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

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/

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.