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Which magazine for my 60ish MIL?

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SoLongAsItsHealthy · 09/12/2010 11:50

I want to get my MIL a magazine subscription for Christmas but not sure what to get. I think I've see her reading She and Red in the past. She is quite youthful, interested in fashion and beauty and shops a fair bit... (mostly in John Lewis!). Does anyone know which age-group these mags are aimed at? Thanks.

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CaurnieBred · 09/12/2010 11:57

I think Red and She are aimed more at 30s-40s. My mum is in her 60s and likes Woman and Home. I have read it a few times too and it seems quite good.

missmartha · 09/12/2010 11:58

Try Vogue. You really can't go wrong.

Of course there is no celeb goss., but if she doesn't care for it it's certainly the one I'd choose.

I think you get a month free if you order twelve.

RipMacWinkle · 09/12/2010 12:06

Defo Woman and Home. My MIL gets it and likes it. She's young-minded and mid Fifties.

I don't mind admitting that I've had a wee gander and it's readable although definitely pitched older than me.

odetothewestwing · 09/12/2010 12:33

Both my mum plus mil have enjoyed the Woman & Home sub we got them last year - and my mum has resuscribed. I quite like it too! Or what about an interiors mag?

purplepeony · 09/12/2010 12:36

Woman and Home and Good Housekeeping, Country Living if she lives rural or aspires to!

Bucharest · 09/12/2010 12:37

My Mum is 66 and I'm getting her Red. She loves it. It was her that got me reading it.

purplepeony · 09/12/2010 12:38

Ripvan- god that post from you makes me feel old- I am mid 50s and being young minded is not a phrase I would dream of using about myself- I consider myself 40s in my head! 55 is not old these days at all. My DD is just out of uni and I am just stopping being a full time mum in my head!

My Mum is 84 and reads Good H and W&H.

muddlinleigh · 09/12/2010 12:44

My mum is a Good Housekeeping and Woman and Home fan, she'll shortly be 64.

MollieO · 09/12/2010 12:46

My mum has a subscription to W&H that she keeps asking me to cancel. She thinks it is boring and prefers Country Living.

RipMacWinkle · 09/12/2010 12:49

Apologies purplepeony

My MIL is mid fifties but often like similar things to me (mid thirties). I guess I worded things a bit clumsily. She definitely thinks like yourself. Young minded did sound fairly poor. However, my own mum is early sixties but she seems older, if that makes sense.

Defo did not mean to make you feel old.

Am I diggiing myself deeper into a hole?

SoLongAsItsHealthy · 09/12/2010 13:06

Thanks all - have done W&H on your advice!

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missmartha · 09/12/2010 13:07

Purplepeony, I will never see 50 again either and 'young minded' strikes me as an odd turn of phrase too.

I suggested Vogue as I take it myself an cannot imagine not doing so.

I don't stay at home all day baking and cultivating apple cheeks.

fleetingstay · 09/12/2010 13:43

Vogue has nothing in it but advets i always think. I like Red and subscribe to and Easy Living Elle decoration, Homes and Gardens which i hate, Country Homes and interiors and my favourite Living etc I sometimes buy Country Living

fleetingstay · 09/12/2010 13:44

sorry all very jumbled, i am in a hurry

mamasmissionimpossible · 09/12/2010 13:48

My mum is 63 and read W&H and Good Housekeeping. She is passing them onto me

UnquietDad · 09/12/2010 13:49

It sounds "old" but the Saga magazine is good. It's aimed at 50+. My mum gets it and even DW and I find it interesting sometimes!

UnquietDad · 09/12/2010 13:50

It sounds "old" but the Saga magazine is good. It's aimed at 50+. My mum gets it and even DW and I find it interesting sometimes!

missmartha · 09/12/2010 13:55

Oh please, not Saga.

Yes it can be interesting, but then, so can a fungal infection on the toenails.

soopermum1 · 09/12/2010 14:02

My mum is 65 and reads Heat and Now magazines. She loves her celeb gossip

sue52 · 09/12/2010 16:24

I'm 59 and would cry if my DDs bought me woman and home. I like Elle and Marie Claire. I must admit I read Heat at the hairdressers.

GeorginaWorsley · 09/12/2010 16:32

I like Woman and Home and I am only 43!

MayorNaze · 09/12/2010 16:34

good housekeeping

i like it meself. except there are lot of references to the menopause and i am hopefully 20 years or so off that...

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Alibabaandthe40nappies · 09/12/2010 16:38

My Mum is 61 and she likes Good Housekeeping. She has also confessed to a secret love of Hello, but she only reads it at the hairdressers because she wouldn't be seen dead buying it

She used to read Woman and Home, but ditched her subscription about 10 years ago because it had got too old.

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