What's your magazine history?

[Shetlands]

Mumsnet has a wide age range so I was wondering which magazines have featured in your lives at various stages. I don't mean the magazines that you might pick up at the Dentist but which ones you have actually bought regularly. Here's mine:

Early 1960s - Bunty
Late 1960s - Petticoat
1970s - Cosmopolitan
1980s & 1990s - Good Housekeeping, Various House/garden mags
2000s onwards - Country Living, Ideal Home, Private Eye

She

in the ‘80s

Back in the day, it seemed quite common on buses and trains for other random women to ask to borrow my magazine, especially if it was a glossy one. Was this anyone else’s experience?

Oh I’d forgotten about Twinkle!

70’s Twinkle/Bunty
80’s Jackie/Smash Hits/ Just Seventeen
90’s onwards Marie Clare/Elle/Cosmopolitan

Haven’t bought a magazine in years.

Teens - Seventeen (my parents wouldn't let me buy this, I had to read it at the orthodontist!)

Later teens - Cosmo, the Economist, Wired, New Scientist

20s - Elle, Vanity Fair, Private Eye, the Economist, Monacle, Elle Decor

30s - the New Yorker, Olive, Jamie's Food, Domino, Bon Appetit, the Simple Things (I still pick this one up sometimes)

40s - Private Eye, FT Weekend and HTSI

Sugar, Bliss and Shout as a teen.

As an adult, I am partial to an occasional Take A Break 😂 . It's very nostalgic for me as I remember my Gran buying it every week then letting me have it after she'd done the puzzles (from about age 10). It's a nice, totally brain-numbing easy read 😄

@ADifferentSong I remember people borrowing magazines but it was often on a long train journey when someone had a whole stack of magazines with them and were very obviously finished reading one. Then you could ask if you could have a look if you were clear you'd return it. Not acceptable to ask to read one they hadn't touched yet, as the owner should have first dibs of the perfume samples!

Disney comic (sent by Grandma as we lived abroad at the time)
Twinkle
The Brownie
Jackie - when Mum wasn't around
Smash Hits
Just Seventeen
NME
more! - anyone remember position of the month?
Cosmopolitan
Marie Claire
Red
Psychologies
Stylist
Grazia
Good Housekeeping

There were some foodie mags at some point but they were largely work-related.
I still read Stylist and GH when DH picks them up for free - love a magazine.

I used to read, more or less in chronological order, My Little Pony magazine, Neighbours Magazine, Beano, The Funday Times, Dandy, Judy (that may have been an annual), Smash Hits, Look-In, Just 17, Mizz, More, Cosmopolitan, Marie-Claire, Heat, Red, Good Housekeeping. I then for years bought (not for myself!) Peppa Pig magazine, CBeebies magazine, Lego magazine, Thomas the Tank engine, Top of the Pops, Jacqueline Wilson magazine, Phoenix, Beano.

DH reads endless car magazines. I now just read my mum’s Sunday supplements when I have time.

90’s- mizz, just 17
2000- sky and nme, Grazia
2010 -easy living, red, good food, olive
2020 good food, red, good housekeeping
really miss easy living

Eighties child...
Twinkle
Bunty
Jackie (my sister's)
Misty- that was the spooky one. There was a story about a killer who turned teenage girls into jelly babies.
Smash Hits
More
Then a few years of whatever had good gifts.
Now I don't buy them.

Mizz
Bella / Chat / Pick Me Up

Nice thread, not seen this question before! Here is a list of the ones I can remember and roughly the year I would have started getting them.
1996 Beano
2000 Mizz
2005 More
2008 Cosmo
2014 The Mother
2017 Juno
2018 Green parent
2018 The Simple things
2020 Oh magazine which closed in 2022, briefly continued with The Simple Things. I've hardly bought any magazines since then. Would love one but can't find anything I'd like.

I knew there were some others I read between Mizz and more, I think Shout around the same time then Sugar and Bliss! Thanks

Twinkle
Beano
Whizzer & Chips
Jackie - my claim to fame is that I have a friend who was the male romantic lead in some of the photo love stories
Cosmopolitan - my mum's copy
NME
Sounds
Marxism Today
Spare Rib
Scientific American
Nature
Grazia

Twinkle, Dandy
Jackie, Smash Hits
Private Eye, Period Living and Traditional Homes, Country Living, Gardener’s World
Good Food, The New Yorker, free things on the Libby app.

The main ones:

Bunty/Judy
not allowed Jackie

smash Hits
mizz/just 17
sugar
More
was there one called 19?

i feel like there was one called Essentials?

Elle/Red/Glamour

Instyle (collected them but sadly threw them out a few years ago)

Woman and Home: Grazia

then moved to online - Prima, Woman and Home, Good Housekeeping, a few house ones

and throughout it all and on the side - Woman, Chat, Take a Break, Closer, Heat - everything and everything!

There’s a gap in my life with the demise of magazines. They were such a pleasure and treat but just started to feel more and more wasteful and empty and filled with ads.

90s Girl Talk
Early 00s SClub 7 magazine and Sabrina the a teenage witch
Later 00s Mizz,
10s Elle, Marie Claire
Now Tatler, Tesco food

Yes!! Bliss and Sugar similar time to Mizz. Occasionally teen vogue US

I loved this mag!

Twinkle
Bunty (I'd buy that again in a heartbeat if it was reissued!)
Jackie
Smash Hits for lyrics
Cosmo
Good Food
Gardeners World
Land Love
Woman and Home
Good Housekeeping

Look-In
Does anyone else remember that?

Mandy
Tammy
Jackie
Jinty-with Lindy.

The following three were swapsies with my friend for my Jackie:
Blue Jeans
My Guy
Oh Boy!
(yes,i got her three for my Jackie 😁)
Misty
Pink
More!
Heat
I never took to Cosmo, too much fashion and too many adverts. Couldn't relate to it at all.. Oh and if you ever read the American version it was so cheesy!

My elderly neighbour passed on her Woman's Own/realm/Woman to me, so I would read those too, even though I was only around 20.

Lost interest completely by the mid 90's or so.

Late 70s - Jack and Jill and Playhour
85/86 Nikki
87/88 Jackie
89/91 Smash Hits and Just 17
90s NME, Minx, Sky
2000s Heat
2010s Country Living

Oh! How could I forget Just 17!!
Absolutely loved that. 😍

As a child I remember Animals of Farthing Wood with free stickers (circa 1990?) and also a magazine that came with a free dinosaur bone every issue - collect them all to build the full skeleton. I also remember one with a free Barbie-type doll, perhaps called Vicky? I think the doll came with issue one and then every other issue came with a free outfit, perhaps historical eras / career themed? I seem to remember she had a safari suit and some kind of historic maid outfit. And I remember the first issue of Girl Talk which came with a silver flower choker on black thread that I LOVED!

As a teen and young adult (late 90s and early 00s) I read Fast Forward, J17, Sugar, Bliss, More and Mizz... and also NME, Smash Hits and Kerrang... and used to read my step dad's issues of Q (can't remember if that was the full name... it was a glossy music mag).

sometimes I'd read an imported American teen mag called Sassy.

Great thread!
Jackie, Just 17, Mizz but these weren’t bought just passed on.
Used ti read my dad’s spectrum magazine and Readers Digest.

The first one I bought regularly was More.
cosmo
red
psychologies
Prima

New Scientist

then in my 30/40s it was good homes and any interior design mags

I really got into magazines in my 20s. Spent far too much money on them.

Now it’s Tesco magazine!