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Does anyone read the Sunday papers any more?

36 replies

WhereDoYouGo1 · 29/10/2023 08:12

I used to love that! It would take me all day to get through all the supplements but it would be part of my Sunday routine. Breakfast in bed sometimes too. This was pre-children of course. I don’t know if people do that any more. I just read the news online a few times a day.

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GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 29/10/2023 08:15

I've tried a couple of times recently when on holiday, as like you I have such fond memories of doing so (DH and I used to read them in the pub over Bloody Marys and a roast), but they've got so expensive now!

IvorTheEngineDriver · 29/10/2023 08:21

No. Gave up years ago. Why should I pay for too many supplements about things I had zero interest in?

megletthesecond · 29/10/2023 08:22

I get a sunday papper delivered. I just have it so I've got something to read when I wake in the night and I don't want to concentrate too hard.

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Planesplanesplanes · 29/10/2023 08:22

My Dad and PIL. My Dad goes on a paper run to buy them for various elderly neighbours. I think it’s a generational thing which will probably die out.

IvorTheEngineDriver · 29/10/2023 08:23

Planesplanesplanes · 29/10/2023 08:22

My Dad and PIL. My Dad goes on a paper run to buy them for various elderly neighbours. I think it’s a generational thing which will probably die out.

I agree. Certainly everybody I see going for papers on a Sunday morning (deliveries are unknown here) is older than me and I'm mid-60s.

FoleyHuck · 29/10/2023 08:24

No children yet, I sometimes get the Times when we've got no plans for a Sunday but it takes me most of the week to get through it (and even then some of the sections never get opened). Waste of money really but somehow I keep doing it.

ShanghaiDiva · 29/10/2023 08:25

We do. We still get the free papers from Waitrose.

Rocknrollstar · 29/10/2023 08:25

Been sitting in bed, eating breakfast and reading The Sunday Times and chatting with DH. Yes, we have a paper everyday and read it. But I read online and he prefers the print version.

Mindymomo · 29/10/2023 08:27

DH is now working his way through The Times, which takes him most of the week, we also have The Sun delivered, for the football (apparently). My adult DS takes the tv guide a Culture magazine to work to read in his lunch break. Our papers are delivered by car from our newsagents, there’s only 11 on his round in our area and they are mainly over 60’s. I take a glance through the papers, but I don’t spend long, unlike my DH who reads virtually everything.

MintJulia · 29/10/2023 08:27

It's too time consuming, my weekends are busy.

I buy them for Xmas weekend, maybe if on holiday in the U.K. and if I am in bed poorly. So about twice a year.

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 29/10/2023 08:28

I do.

I go for a walk with the dogs, pick up the paper and one of my boys carries it home for me.

Then it gets spread all over the kitchen table and covered in greasy stains and someone takes a supplement to read and never brings it back and I have to go search for it when I want it.

sakura06 · 29/10/2023 08:28

I get a paper on a Saturday and read it on Sunday. I really like the Review section of the paper I read.

RocketIceLollie · 29/10/2023 08:30

I don't, but I know my mum and dad get a Sunday paper. Only day of the week they get a paper.

PermanentTemporary · 29/10/2023 08:30

No, I stopped when dh died, couldn't handle too much news. Also I was getting tired of feeling I had to keep up with so many things and people I didn't give a shit about. I think the Observer food monthly thing was the beginning of the end- I like food, sometimes enjoy cooking, but zero interest in reading about some obscure chef's thoughts on life and tripe recipes. Also we were so broke for so long, these 'lifestyle' things and 'news' features about private school fees get v old when paying for the paper itself is a treat.

Bigcoatweather · 29/10/2023 08:33

We used to get the Sunday Times every week pre-children and when they were very young, but stopped as we didn’t have enough spare time and the waste of paper felt massive.
I do buy them now and again and it does feel wonderfully self-indulgent (in a good way) to spend an hour or so reading.
But I’m also less keen on the shallow ‘aspirational’ outlook of the Times Style mag and property supplement ie. This magnificent bolt hole in the countryside could be yours for only £850k!

SoShallINever · 29/10/2023 08:34

Times on a Saturday. I'm still reading it on Sunday!

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 29/10/2023 08:34

No. Gave up years ago. Why should I pay for too many supplements about things I had zero interest in?

This. We used to get the Saturday Times years ago, but I just found I flicked through it and found little to interest me, and a hell of a lot of adverts. Tbh even lots of the stuff that wasn't adverts felt like adverts. So now we just print out the Saturday Jumbo Cryptic Crossword, which was always the main point of buying it anyway!

EdgeK · 29/10/2023 08:35

I miss them. Housebound now and no more paper-girls/boys. So unless someone is visiting I miss out.
Back in the day, it was Times, Observer, NOTW, and on those great Sundays that north London seems to do well, 4 of us in the pub, sharing bloody Mary's, the papers and a roast.
The papers were part of this. I miss the routine so much.

RedRiverShore4 · 29/10/2023 08:38

I'm reading the Times online at the moment as I have 3 months free Apple News, I sometimes can also get one from Waitrose as part of my offers, I never buy one though. NDN goes to paper shop on Sunday though and gets 2 or 3 papers

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 29/10/2023 08:39

One thing I don't understand is why The Times and The Telegraph keep having the Luxury supplements.

It's all diamond necklaces from Haughty&Dachshund, price on application and someone's cedar lined yacht dressing room and dogs' bowls by Hermes.

Bizarre.

lashano · 29/10/2023 08:39

Sometimes I might buy one to take to the pub for Sunday lunch but most of it is just thrown away immediately because I don't care about sport/motoring/makeup/etc and the bulk of it all started to weigh me down. Recycling is such a pain where I live that I avoid accumulating anything that must be recycled as it all gets blown all over the street all the time.

I do like the crossword when I go to my older relatives who all still get them.

I buy the LRB and the Private Eye when I see them.

Roselilly36 · 29/10/2023 08:40

Not bought a newspaper or read one in years. Pre-children (ours are adults now) we always had a Sunday newspaper, just something you get out of the habit of.

shockeditellyou · 29/10/2023 08:45

I love a good Sunday paper but haven’t had one in years as we don’t get any paper deliveries. Even my mum gets hers on her iPad now!

FatOaf · 29/10/2023 08:45

Haven't read a Sunday newspaper since the late nineteen-eighties, when I realised there was no news in them. Got fed up with chucking 80% of the paper in the bin and then finding there was hardly anything worth reading even in the remaining 20%.

Haven't bought or read a physical newspaper for over 10 years. I read the app version.

LlynTegid · 29/10/2023 08:59

I only ever read any newspaper when travelling on a long train journey, and these are rarely on a Sunday.

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