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Name a magazine you used to buy regularly growing up?

107 replies

OneUmberJoker · 22/11/2025 17:59

Match magazine

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augustusglupe · 22/11/2025 23:04

Twinkle
Look In
Pink
Smash Hits
Just Seventeen

Junenights · 22/11/2025 23:07

merryhouse · 22/11/2025 18:04

Jackie, Patches, Blue Jeans, Just Seventeen (with a quarter of midget gems, which I always ate too quickly never learned)

Once I was an actual grown-up I bought the occasional Cosmo and Marie-Claire, and for several years New Woman.

I have in my head there was one called Red, but I'm not sure why...

Red is still available!

I loved so many from late teen onwards. Elle, Sugar, Company Magazine, Glamour, More. Real. The 90s were the golden era of Magazines..

lingmerth · 22/11/2025 23:41

As a child I read June and school friend then Jackie as a teenager.

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DoAWheelie · 22/11/2025 23:43

The Beano and The Dandy when I was a kid, then Kerrang! as a teenager. Then I got obsessed with New Scientist for a bit in my early twenties. I've not touched a magazine in over 10 years now though..

minipie · 22/11/2025 23:45

Never bought any. I used to read my friends’ when I went to theirs. Just realised that probably makes me a CF.

Toddlerteaplease · 22/11/2025 23:46

Shout, Sugar, Mizz, Just 17.

DappledOliveGroves · 22/11/2025 23:47

How has nobody mentioned Sky Magazine?! I read it religiously in the mid-90s and can still remember chunks of the articles verbatim. I bought a few at an extortionate price from eBay around a decade ago and love re-reading them. Wish I had more of them.

CalliopePlantain · 22/11/2025 23:50

Kerrang! And Metal hammer- you got a free CD with most issues. Was a teen in the mid 90s

CoffeeAndCakeBringMeJoy · 22/11/2025 23:53

Twinkle
Bunty
Fast Forward
Hi! (does anyone else remember this one?)
Jackie
Just Seventeen
Sugar
Bliss
More!
Company and Cosmopolitan occasionally in my late teens/early 20s.

Also Smash Hits at times in the late 80s for the song lyrics!

CaseClosedWineOpened · 22/11/2025 23:58

My parents bought me Top of the Pops and Shout

I secretly bought J-17, Sugar and Bliss

NecklessMumster · 23/11/2025 00:05

Twinkle
Look and Learn
Whizzer and Chips
Jackie
Melody Maker
NME
Spare Rib
Shocking Pink
New Woman
Cosmopolitan

TheWibble · 23/11/2025 00:07

Mine were Bliss, Sugar, Mizz, J17 and More.

BatForCashes · 23/11/2025 00:10

Bunty
Smash Hits
Mizz
Bliss
Sugar
J17
Kerrang

then as a YA

Cosmo
Elle
Glamour

One of my biggest laments for my daughters is that they’ll never know the true joy of getting a free lippie or eyeshadow with a mag or reading the Photo Stories and embarrassing confessions. Some of those stories have stuck with me to this day 😆

Or the joy of cutting out bits and pieces from different mags and making weird and wonderful collages.

Ohgoonthenanotheronefortheroad · 23/11/2025 00:11

Tibby99 · 22/11/2025 18:01

I think I went through Girl Talk, Sugar(?) Or Bliss? ..Mizz, Cosmo and Smash Hits

Edited

All of these here too!

RightOnTheEdge · 23/11/2025 00:11

Smash Hits
Just Seventeen
PONY Magazine

That's just reminded how much I I loved the Pony magazine. I was desperate for a pony and never got one. I used to have my whole wall covered in the pull out posters.

XenoBitch · 23/11/2025 00:18

NME, Aliens comic, and a Star Trek TNG poster magazine. I shared a bedroom with my sister. She had boy band posters on her side of the wall, and I had Picard and Data.

TwoOneEyedTigers · 23/11/2025 00:36

I started with Mandy, Bunty and the occasional Beano from about age 8. Then at about age 12 I moved on to Jackie and Fab 2008.

MisterT373 · 23/11/2025 03:08

La la la la la la Look In

Tell me now have you seen
Such a colourful magazine
Youre really gonna read it straight
Oh its Fabulous, Fabulous,Fabulous 208...

Anyone remember these jingles?

SantiagoShaming · 23/11/2025 03:18

Smash Hits, Shout, Sugar and Bliss when I was really young, then from about 14 on Just 17, Mizz, More, Company and Glamour were my regulars. Once I was in uni, Elle and Cosmo. I actually really miss magazines! I used to love getting one, felt like a real treat.

whatawalley · 23/11/2025 03:59

The Beano

Oblomov25 · 23/11/2025 04:09

So many memories. Beano, smash hits, Just 17, More.

TheFormidableMrsC · 23/11/2025 04:11

Jackie, Just Seventeen, Smash Hits.

BlackCoffeeAndSugar · 23/11/2025 04:49

Girl talk, shout, mizz

chunkyBoo · 23/11/2025 05:14

When I was much younger it was Buster or Whizzer and Chips.
as a teen Mizz, Smash Hits, anything that looked interesting or had a poster I wanted lol

WhereDidSummerGoAgain · 23/11/2025 05:28

Beano
Bunty
Smash hits
Just 17
NME occasionally
Cosmo occasionally