When was the last time you bought a magazine?

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I've realised I haven't bought a magazine for a few years now! I used to buy OK! magazine every week and Red every month, plus the odd one here and there and I'd often read one in the bath.

My teens don't ever buy them whereas when I was a teen I loved Smash Hits, Top of the pops, More(!) magazine!

I'm wondering if the traditional magazine is dying out and will soon become a thing of the past?

I have a subscription to Good Food; usually pick up the free Waitrose one each month too. DD has subscriptions to Nat Geo Kids & Whizz Pop Bang.
But that's it - used to get loads each month & read them in my lunch hour but now I'm wfh so watch tv instead with DH.

About 15 years ago. Hate them.

I bought Lego Explorer yesterday. I buy it for the Lego set that it comes with. I actually think of it as I am buying a small Lego set that happens to have a magazine attached rather than the other way around.
I used to buy magazines by the rain forest. Now I don't. If I am going on a long train journey and want something to read I am more likely to buy something like a comic book.

Christmas TV mag last year. I do subscription to Readly - has a free trial and it wasn't just the fad I thought it would be. Me and my son use it regularly, my DD14 doesn't though.

I bought Lego Explorer yesterday is it aimed at adult or younger readers? My friend up DC I s an avid Lego collector.

I have an annual subscription to monthly technically.

I have Grazia, Vanity Fair and Red on a subscription. I used to buy possibly 8 a month, and do love them still, but as readerships have gone down. budgets have been cut and the quality is not what it was.

Annual subscription to a weekly garden mag.

@MovingOnUpp Lego Explorer is aimed at kids.
I guess that makes me a 47 year old kid 😂
Worth it though because the sets are exclusive to the magazine.

Thank you.

@MovingOnUpp I sometimes get the odd copy of Lego City or Friends magazine too if they have a decent set but I don't get every issue of those.

Thanks again. I’ll keep a look out.

I buy some monthly buy mainly the packs of 3 as I refuse to pay £5 : £6 for a magazine

@MovingOnUpp this is the new issue. I have a scary spider to build 🕷️

I honestly can't remember, it's been quite a few years.

I used to get a couple of trashy ones a week like Now and Closer a few years ago and read them in bed but they are just full of crap aren't they? 🤣
One would say a particular celeb couple were on the verge of divorce and the next one would say the same couple had never been happier and were planning to renew their vows 😂
Oh I did used to buy the Slimming World one as well but the problem with recipe mags is that you can just Google them for free.

I have quite a few magazine subscriptions, I enjoy reading them over breakfast every morning. I subscribe to Ideal Home, Country Living, Gardener's World, Good Housekeeping and Good Food, and probably a couple of others that I don't remember off the top of my head.

Today! I can’t see very well on a screen and so I still go old school.

Christmas Radio Times because it's tradition. Don't buy any other magazines.

I can't even remember. Must be ten years at least.

Haven’t read or purchased a magazine since I was a teenager.

More than eight years ago, which is when we last moved. I’ve read some online when I had a Kindle Unlimited free trial, but that’s it.

Almost 10 years ago!
one New Years resolution that I have stuck to.
i used to buy several of the trashy gossip magazines when I had dropped my dd off to preschool once a week, along with a bag of crisps and a bag of maltesers. I spent a lovely couple of hours reading them and eating my snacks in peace! Then one year I thought “these magazines are full of shit and adverts, I’m going to stop buying them next year” and I did.
I know there are plenty of other categories of magazines but they’re mainly aspirational waffle, I don’t buy into any of it!!!

Actually that’s a lie, I have bought the occasional kids one at an airport but even my kids never seemed that interested in them, wouldn’t bother with them anymore either.

Also Private Eye during the summer.

I used to be a Vogue subscriber and often bought Elle. Before that I was a loyal Heat reader, often bought Grazia and got all the teenage ones from the age of about 11.

Recently looked at getting Vogue as a rare treat and found it very very thin and the paper felt poor quality. For almost £5 per issue, I was not persuaded.

I bought a posh interiors magazine last Christmas for ideas about decorating and crafting. At my great age I feel that I know my taste by now and as I don't follow fashion, feel that I don't really need much inspiration or information about what's new. At around a fiver a time it's quite an outlay.