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?

Oh, I do always get the Christmas Radio Times. It's a little tradition I have for myself.

A long time before Covid started.
At least 50% content is advertising.
Also they seem to become thinner snd thinner with hardly any meaningful or truly informative articles.
Years ago, there used to be lots of free gifts of good quality, which I really enjoyed and some magazines I bought only for their gifts. it was an opportunity to read something I would not have looked into prior to the purchase.
There's nothing magazines offer nowadays that I can't find online and for free.

I occasionally buy a copy of the Sainsbury's magazine but very rarely. I buy the Country Life Christmas edition sometimes, but possibly won't bother this year.

I may not have bought it last year, and the fact I can't remember probably means it's an unnecessary purchase.

Private Eye a couple of weeks ago, and I buy the Economist a few times a year.

I used to love women's magazines but that was a long time ago. I worked in the industry for less than a year, just as 'advertorial' was taking off, and my love turned to pure hate. I will be delighted when none of them exist any more.

We haven't bought a daily newspaper for a very long time, so we always had the Radio Times every week for the articles, listings and film reviews etc. They've recently done away with the film section, and changed a lot of other things, so we've decided that we're not going to bother with it any more. Maybe I will buy it for over Christmas but that's that.

I occasionally buy Gardeners World magazine, and sometimes Private Eye.

My late DM was an absolute Womans Weekly devotee, and a few years back I started reading it for the nostalgia element.

I treat myself to one every month. I always go into WH Smith to buy a hobby magazine, the kind of thing they don't sell in the supermarkets. WHS have a really good choice of titles, so I get whatever I like the look of.

Years and years. I used to read Marie Claire and Take a Break.

DH used to have the Christmas Good Food mag each year but he doesn't bother now.

Probably somewhere around 1988.

I like Coast magazine, looked while I was in sainsburys today for a treat - £4.99 - good grief !! Too much for something which will then likely be thrown away

I use to regularly buy the Dancing Times (when I remembered) from WH Smith, but they're ceasing production. There will be no more.

In the summer. Hello and Vanity Fair to read on the beach.

We have subscriptions for 3 kids magazines(2 are weekly, the other monthly). I also have a subscription to a parenting magazine that comes every other month. I quite enjoy a magazine!

I have the Readly app which is a pay subscription to loads of magazines, I usually read Empire and Women's Health

Also have paper New Statesman delivered and sometimes pick up paper New Scientist if there's something exciting on the cover.

I subscribe to Private Eye (worth every penny - get a subscription for Christmas, folks) and occasionally buy the CBeebies magazine for DC3, but I’d never buy a woman’s magazine. I wonder who does? 25 years ago I used to get Marie Claire because it had lengthy journalistic pieces, but every single woman’s glossy mag has gone massively downhill. Nothing in ‘em but product placement and list-icles of products. Yawn. Don’t care.

I can see specialist interest magazines still being relevant - weddings, interiors, crafting - but general women’s mags are awful.

I get a free magazine with my bank but because I don't really read them DH as a walking magazine from it so it is not wasted, I sometimes read the free online ones with Prime

Oh, I forgot the Radio Times, we have that as a subscription as DH likes it

I have two a month by subscription - the one from the RHS and BBC Good Food. I really enjoy them.

Years and years ago, and I used to spend a fortune on them in the noughties. It would be a colossal waste of money now given we have the Internet

I subscribe to Private Eye and occasionally buy New Scientist and The Economist. A "women's" magazine- probably 30/35 years. They're full of crap.

Stopped buying them years ago, I read them
on the Libby app for free through my local library’s subscription. I get all the crafting ones on there.

I stopped buying them years ago but DH recently bought me a copy of Good Housekeeping when I was poorly.

I have a subscription to Private Eye and Good Housekeeping. I live them both

Stopped buying them years ago.

I looked at a copy of Vogue in a hotel this week - 69 pages of adverts before the contents page!!!!

I love magazines. One of my favourite things to do as a little treat is to read a magazine from cover to cover in a cafe with a coffee and a cake.

I read various foodie magazines on Kindle Unlimited - they never seem to have recipes my family would actually eat though. I was tempted by a magazine I saw a couple of days ago in Lidl - something to do with dinosaurs, with a build-your-own plastic dinosaur included. I'm 63.