Do You Buy Magazine ?

[LuluBlakey1]

I am asking because it came up in conversation with a group of friends who were all surprised when I said I never buy magazines. They all buy a couple at least, regularly. I literally never even think of looking at or buying a magazine.
DH gets about 3- a History one, one from his union about 'School Leadership' and he gets Private Eye. I might look at those because they are there but nothing else.
If you do, what do you buy and why? What do you spend a month on magazines?
One of my friends reckons she spends about £30 a month on house magazines.

I read on Libby. Good food magazine E and the New Yorker are favourites.

I sometimes read free ones from BorrowBox or Amazon Prime, the house magazines and women's ones. DH has Country Walking paper copy, which I get him free from Lloyds bank, I read bits of it, DH would never read an online magazine so that's why he has the free bank one.

Never got them. Seemed to be more advertising than interesting stuff. I do occasionally browse the free selection via library site, but usually just use Pinterest

I bloody love a magazine. Love the thrill of buying it and I then can't wait to get home to read it.
I will always love print, as opposed to a screen. Screens are just not the same and are appalling for your posture - future joint pain.
There is a serious gap in the market for age groups 50-70. Woman and Women's Own don't cut it. Grazia for older pools would be nice.
I started off being addicted to Jackie (8p) which I loyally/excitedly for which I trotted up to newsagents every Wednesday. Absolutely loved it. (prior to that it was Tammy and Blue Jeans 😆).

I pay subscription £9.99 per months and I have access to every magazine possible I guess. European, American.. love it.
Before I used to pay like an idiot for Grazia, Cosmo etc…

I used to remember reading Just Seventeen waiting for the bus to secondary school and wondering how, at the age of 13, they were allowed to sell it to me! I felt so dead cool. Oh, what a callow youth I was!

Used to buy several every month, now only when I go on holiday. The content is just so predictable and so blatantly designed to manipulate you into buying things and/or feeling bad about yourself, and the prices these days are ridiculous.

My df used to work in the magazine industry and would bring tons of free samples home. They were very exciting and glamorous to me and were for all age groups but they were what was known as "women's magazines" from Good Housekeeping, Woman's Own to Mates and Pink!!

I stopped buying them when a) they made me feel bad because of the "here is my perfect life" articles, too many adverts, and recommended books, films etc that would only appeal to idiots. I'm very happy without them.

It was definitely a thrill to be the first to open a shiny, smooth magazine! And the smell of the free perfume tab thing!!

I used to buy loads in the 90s/00s but now I just buy a trashy celeb mag occasionally if I want something to read while I'm having a coffee out or something.
Will sometimes buy the Sainsbury's mag if there are good recipes but that's about once a year.

I can remember being about 16 in the mid 1990s and Cosmo ,which was considered quite daring then, and which I bought every month, produced an extra supplement about penises. It contained a double page spread with about 50 close-up photos of penises. I was fascinated and repulsed, as were all of my friends. We'd not seen one before and they were a right mixture of willies.

I think I've bought just about every magazine going! Nowadays it's mainly gardening weekly for cheapo seeds and the occasional Gardeners World, but it's so bloody expensive now (£6 or more 😱)

I used to love Cross stitch mag for the freeby xs kits and I've probably got at least 50 of them languishing in my craft room that I've never had time to do. One day .... I'm a sucker for a freeby.

I'm chuckling at the Penis Supplement 😆

More did something similar It was Men A Users Guide

Used to buy Marie Claire in the 90s andfound the articles really good. Don't buy anything now, too much advertising and uninspiring articles.

I do weekly then I pass on to a local lady who reads them herself then takes them to a day centre.

Used to love a magazine but they are prohibitively expensive nowadays. Even Stylist (which used to be a freebie, is ££)

Agree with PPs that I'd never read a magazine on a screen.
This has also taken me right back to the heyday of women's/teen magazines in the 90s and 00s. Mizz, Just 17, Sugar, Bliss, More!, Company, 19, Glamour and my absolute favourite Minx, which nobody else ever seems to remember.
If you're on Instagram please follow '90s teen magazine archive'. It'll get you right in the feels, as the kids say.

Not any more. I cancelled my subscription to the London Review of Books recently, as I just wasn’t getting through it, and it was just making me feel guilty.
Nowadays, I subscribe to the Guardian and the Times online (the latter just for work purposes) and read anything else I fancy on PressReader with my library card. It’s great!

My peak mag-buying days were probably the Noughties, when I got loads of interiors magazines and the excellent fitness mag Zest (sadly no longer published).

I’d never read a magazine on my
phone, though - has to be a decent-sized screen.

Ooh what is Private Eye about? 👀

It pokes fun at British life, in particular politics and often the royals: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/

None purchased here in years. The last ones would have been craft magazines over a decade ago. There seems to be little to read in most. All pictures and adverts.

I have a prime membership, where do you find the magazines please?

Not any more no.

I used to buy and read New Scientist but haven’t bought a copy for years. I have access to some magazines via my Kindle Unlimited subscription but nothing on offer really appeals

Mine is this
Mandy comic when a little girl primary school
Smash Hits Just Seventeen
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New Woman

Eve
Scarlet (with the Cliterature section)

Red.
Woman and Home.