Do you enjoy magazines?

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The only time I buy a magazine is when I’m flying and I pick one up at the airport . In my late teens and twenty’s I loved cosmopolitan.
One of the reasons I like going to a hairdressing salon is the magazine’s .

I stopped buying them after counting the percentage of ads in one I used to like - it was something like 70%.

I still enjoy a flick through the likes of Country Living while waiting to see the dentist, though.

I couldn’t afford magazines when I was hard up so they were a great luxury when I was able to buy them. Woman’s Journal long since gone. Good Housekeeping seems to cater for younger women than me (but I get an online one free for recipes). Woman and Home also no longer a fit. Gardeners’ World became very repetitive - how many times do you need to be told how to sow seeds and prune roses? Country Living became boring with all the shabby chic. I read the Sunday Times magazine and their Culture supplement, otherwise it’s newspapers and books (mainly history).

A friend & I share a subscription to W & H which we both enjoy, there are a lot of ads but good book reviews and articles as well. We pass the magazine on to two other friends when we have read it.

I was going to say no, then someone mentioned the ones that come with the Saturday and Sunday papers, and someone else mentioned The Radio Times, and yes, I get all of those if they count. I skim read them, but there’s usually something I enjoy. I subscribe to two comping magazines too, just for the competitions. I pass them all on to a friend, who also passes them on, so they’re well read.

I enjoy Women’s weekly, and have a subscription paid for by myself. A good mix of fiction, articles and puzzles. No kiss & tell rubbish.

I also enjoy ‘Prima’ same as above. One of my daughters buys me a subscription each year.

Once I have read them I pass them on to my MIL who then passes them on again.

I get a free magazine with my bank account. I can choose from a wide range. Then I pass it on to my daughter who puts it in her holiday let. I have had Landscape but at her request I am changing to Country Living.

I love house magazines ( decor porn my children reckon) and often ask for a subscription as a gift. It's a calorie free treat...

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.

I have had a Gardeners’ World subscription for many years, which OH gave me as a gift. We also have National Trust, The Garden and RSPB magazines, as we also subscribe to these organisations. I pass my gardening magazines on to friends and they do likewise.

As a member of our local library we can read newspapers and magazines for free through the press reader app. It’s a great saving and I read whatever takes my fancy,

Nope. They are expensive drivel (in my humble). The only one I ‘skim’ read is the Saga Magazine. Only because my stepfather buys a subscription every year then passes it on to me! I read some of it - Jeremy Paxman & Jenny Murray for example - but I don’t have a garden so I skip those pages, I don’t have a pet so ditto, same as I don’t craft or bake! As you see, not much in them to interest me.
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But after I’ve read them I pass them to my neighbour here who loves every page - the puzzles, the articles with a monthly celebrity etc - then she passes them back. I saved them up and took them over to Málaga where my LWW friends were absolutely delighted with them. So much so, one lady said she wished she could subscribe to it but it’s not available outside of the UK.