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.

Yes I subscribe to some independent magazines, partly to support them and because I just like the content - and it’s always such a nice surprise when they come through the door (even though I’m expecting them 😄).
And they force me to sit still and quietly for half an hour with a coffee!

I used to buy quite a few when I was younger, but not for many years now. And that's not because of the internet, but I realised that I was wasting an awful lot of money on so-called women's magazines (like Cosmo, She and other monthly glossies) that just kept peddling the same old sexist nonsense and unattainable lifestyles. The scales fell from my eyes! And I definitely never read weeklies or gossip mags - if I see them in a shop or hairdressers now, I have no idea who any of the alleged "celebs" are.
There is probably a place for very specialist hobby magazines, plus things like Private Eye and The Spectator, but I don't usually bother.

I love a magazine. I have subscriptions to Red and Grazia (so pay less than if I bought them in the shops) and sometimes buy Woman and Home too. I pass them on to my neighbour after reading them.

I bought Just 17 sometimes growing up. Think I used to buy Best in my 20's or 30's. Used to buy take a break monthly just for the puzzles but stopped as never have the time to do them.

I used to read Pony magazine, then Your Dog, and all the parenting magazines when expecting my eldest and when he was small. Then I gradually came to realise that there was only so much to say about tack, training and the stages of pregnancy and that articles were endlessly recycling. It put me off a bit. So I started reading Doctor Who Monthly and moved seamlessly into the fantasy mags.

Cannot kick my addiction to house interiors though. And gardens. I love picking up a magazine which promises that it will show me how to deal with my 'small house/bathroom/garden/bedroom' only to display rooms (and gardens) which are bigger than my entire house.

I used to get four or five home decor magazines, and when younger a couple fashion mags (and no home decor ones). But CoL and I've reduced it to three in total and will probably cut another out.

I read them on Readly, when I was able to get out & about I used to spend around £50 a month on magazines.

I was keen on Zest. Other general fitness magazines don't quite hit the same spot.

Running magazines tend to have disappeared from shop shelves, although I am at the stage where when I do get hold of one, a lot of the content regurgitates from year to year.

I tend to have phases. There's been weddings, walking, crafts and running.
I never got into fashion magazines.

I have a membership with the local library simply for their access to PressReader. Hundreds of magazines abd all the daily papers except the Times, totally free. I read Country Life, Country Living, horsey mags, interiors and gardening stuff and an embroidery magazine.

Oh I do have a proper print subscription to Pianist magazine because they put free music in the magazine, I've gathered a huge collection of repertoire and it's only £4.50 every other month, plus it comes with a free Cd of the pieces in the issue which then goes in the car. I await it with great eagerness

i also love the food magazines on PressReader and also French and Italian mags to improve language skills in topics of interest

I loved Minx too

Used to, but stopped years ago after once counting up how much of the mag was advertisements - IIRC it was GH.
Something like 70%!

I do buy the odd Private Eye though.

I literally never buy magazines now. But, having said that, I was ill a few months ago and a friend came round with a load of them - a couple of new ones and some of her back copies - to amuse me while I was laid up, and I did quite enjoy leafing through them ... mostly boggling at the prices of some of the outrageous fashion.

I buy grazia every few months

I don't buy them much any more - sometimes in the airport to have on holiday, and if I do it will be Vogue or Elle.

My parents buy loads though - Mum gets Vogue, Elle Decoration, House and Garden, Living Etc and more interiors ones that I can't remember right now. My stepdad gets endless car magazines. My dad gets the Farmer's Guardian and Poultry World.

Pinch the screen and it will zoom in

Thanks, I just like to see the whole layout of an article rather than having to zoom in on one bit at a time.

I get Take a Break, Women's Weekly and sometimes Chat. I have lowbrow tastes.

I quite like Good Food at Christmas too.

I used to buy 3-4 magazines a month. At about £6 per magazine that is in the hundreds of pounds per year.

They were all the same magazines- home and lifestyle ones. The number of times I bought the same magazine twice without realising it was when I realised what a total waste of money it is. So I stopped.

I bought a garden magazine last week and that is probably the first time in 4 years. I still thought it was a waste of money. Much better to spend that money on an actual plant for my garden and to plant it.

Airport or long journey only time i buy any magazines

We buy lots - food, house and gardening ones for me, CBeebies or similar for the children and Private Eye for my husband. Reading on my phone isn't relaxing in the same way a proper magazine is. We mostly have subscriptions, and I love when they land through the door. A magazine with my coffee is a real treat.

I was another Minx fan! My life can be traced through my comics and magazines - Jack and Jill, Nikki, Jackie, Smash Hits, NME, Minx/ Sky, Heat, Zest, Country Living!

I used to buy Country Living regularly but it has become harder to find in shops, apart from in a bundle with two other magazines, so I have stopped and rarely buy a magazine now. I buy the Saturday Guardian and the Observer, and the occasional local newspaper, and that sees me through.

@SilverSimca it might be worth checking your local library membership, mine includes PressReader which has country living on it, the Guardian and the observer

Just the tv guide weekly

I love magazines and used to buy Red, Grazia, Marie Claire, Easy Living …

I feel that I am a bit in no man’s land now regarding magazines. Im too young for good housekeeping and woman and home and Red feels a bit of a younger, hipster type read.

If Easy Living stuck around I probably would have kept reading that.

I’m 46 btw