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Does anyone read the Sunday papers any more?

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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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BitofaStramash · 29/10/2023 08:59

No. I regret it. But i never do anything about it.

Luckymeluckyme · 29/10/2023 09:05

My parents did every Sunday when we were growing up, my dad would walk to shop to but the papers and rolls and my mum would make fresh coffee, I can remember the exact smell.

Interestingly they came to visit a few weeks ago (we live quite far away now) and they brought papers with them on a Saturday, mum sat and did the crossword with a glass of wine and was so excited to tell my dad when he woke up from him nap that she had finished it and make me really sit in that moment and appreciated the nostalgia but also how simple love and happy life can be.

Blamethecat57 · 29/10/2023 09:12

Haven't read a paper newspapers in a long time.
They are expensive.
I do miss coming across a random article about something I would never have thought about though..

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junebirthdaygirl · 29/10/2023 09:31

Yes every Saturday and Sunday but l am that age bracket..60+
My dc never buy a newspaper but as soon as they enter the house they say..where's the paper and start reading. I keep them all week and browse bits while having breakfast etc. Come from a family of major readers of papers so would miss it. Far cheaper to get it online but not the same for me.
Take lists of books to read, movies to see but never recipes as too farfetched mostly.

Bluevelvetsofa · 29/10/2023 09:38

We used to get the Sunday Times and I’d read the magazine whilst DH read the bits he liked and then we’d swap. Haven’t done that for years now.

MajorBarbara · 29/10/2023 09:41

I always buy the Saturday Guardian and it lasts the weekend, in fact I keep the Feasts, and the Weekend magazines pile up for a few weeks. It gets read by 4 people including a 12 year old and a 14 year old. We play a game where I read out the names of people in the Birthdays and the others guess their ages.

wideawakeinthemiddleofthenightagain · 29/10/2023 10:01

We subscribe to The Times online and I skim a few articles every morning before getting up. One of my joys every weekend is read the Saturday Times in bed. One of the greatest perks of the internet IMO

mondaytosunday · 29/10/2023 10:05

On occasion. I used to work in publishing, and back in the 90s I remember talk that soon you'd be able to customise what sections you got in your paper! Never happened. I get most of my news online or Radio 4, but I don't have the opportunity to accidentally come across an article that is intriguing but not a subject I'd normally look at.

bengalcat · 29/10/2023 10:09

Buy and read The Times at weekends

fredafry · 29/10/2023 10:15

I used to have a newspaper delivered every day. I enjoyed the weekend papers the most. I'd get a Guardian daily and a Times, in addition, on Saturday.

I remember once that there had been some problem with the Guardian delivery do they thought The Express would be a suitable alternative!

I have a digital subscription now. I miss the physical newspaper, but it's probably more environmentally friendly not having to recycle them all.

MsJuniper · 29/10/2023 10:16

DH gets a daily paper copy of the Guardian and then we get the Saturday edition to read together. We always do the quiz and are very lenient scorers.

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