To feel like there is not one decent women's magazine on the market

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They all churn out the same tired old stuff slightly rehashed every now and again, there's no proper journalism, hardly any proper reviews, no insight into anything. They're all so boring!

her name was Sara Creamer if I recall... I guess you have to google her and feel like a stalker!
Oh, and the Real-She Ed was Sian Rees

Oh I LOVED Jackie magazine! I'd love any magazine that wasn't full of photos of handbags (much as I love them). Most women's mags make me feel as though I[m shedding IQ points.

Perhaps we should be reading The Lady.

I love Prima and get it on subscription. It works out cheaper in the long run.

I am another Easy Living fan and have got a friend into it too. Other mags I occasionally read if very bored at inlaws or given by a friend.

I love mags and buy each month
Red
She
Easy Living
Essentials
Prima
Good Housekeeping
Woman and Home
Good Homes
Ideal Home
Homes and Ideas
A local mag (along the vein of Cheshire Life except not Cheshire)
Also subscribe to a local mag from my uni city as a lot of friends settled there and feature in the social pages!!
Also like the Times mags Sat and Sun
Never Ok though.
I read books too but very selective TV viewer
My name is Lucy and I am a magazine addict

blimey lucyspangle that habit must cost you a fortune!

How much does that set you back a month though Lucy?

Ta Sarf

Are you ever worried you will get caught out writing something daft that will result in you getting flamed?

Shocked at salaries
I used to get £15 an hour and that was considered low at the time (stopped this line of work in 1996)

TBH never added it up- I buy them throughout the month - luckily DH is a mag addict too his are fishing /country persuits /music related.Ball park figure £30 a month? £8 a week.

I do recycle them though- the 'younger' ones go to a colleague the older ones(ie any with Helen Mirren/Nigella/Fern on the cover) go to MIL.I keep the house porn.

My local newsagent has on occassion had to stop me from buying one I have already bought earlier in the month.

But, SEasticated would it even have to be printed? Could it not be online?

MN could put up the development money (I'm sure they've got a bit saved up somewhere) and if there's a demand... maybe it could work out?

Yes I suppose it would have to be paid for by advertising.... which comes back to the problems with that discussed in the thread. Maybe you have to start there and think what kind of advertisers would pay to advertise alongside this sort of content. Which I suppose is who advertises on MN already. But MN are in the process of recruiting a new ad sales person so there must be more advertisers out there? And we ('we?' I don't exactly know what I would be doing, being both unable to write or design websites) could take these public service information films if the BBC don't want them.

I don't think it's fanciful.

They're just crap. I'm not interested in "better sex" articles or what makeup Cheryl Cole is wearing today. I stopped buying magazines several years ago

Another fan of minx here, I loved it. Please bring it back !

I haven't bought a magazine for donkey's years. However at my gran's house or at my MIL's I devour Good Housekeeping. Do you think now that I'm over 30 and have a baby I could justify buying it? I have enjoyed it for years!

"A magazine version of R4's Woman's Hour would be great."

I like Womans' Hour, my mother loathes it with 70s feminist passion. "Why do we need a womans hour ? Do they have mens' hour ? No !"

They used to have The Locker Room on R4 which was brilliant IMO, but ratings were apparently poor.

iused to buy em all every ,not bought any for a while as next door gives me hers

maybe its time for a Mumsnet magazine :) We could take it in turns to write features. I will do a series on "real life cooking for the frazzled mother" focussing on frozen mushrooms and lazy garlic

my one mag treat is an american magazine, Martha Stewart Living. Interesting home articles, intersting pieces on things like delft china, great recipes and, not living in the States, I even find the adverts interesting. It covers craft, gardening, interiors, housekeeping and food/drink. I love it and devour it from cover to cover

Boffinsmum you could set up a blog as a kind of on-line cv with links to articles you have published, and you could blog/tweet when something else is published, or you could use a blog as a platform to write about something you feel passionate about (eg, women's rights) The more you write on your specialist subject and tweet it, the more you become known as a kind of blog specialist in that area, and you might get commissions from it.

My blog is about ethical Xmas presents for under £5 - not particularly academic, but I am trying to encourage people to not blow hundreds of pounds on plastic tat, when they could be spending less on well chosen British made/fairtrade stuff. I really enjoy internet research and sourcing so it's been great fun for me.

sunfunandmum I love printed mags, the smell, the feel of the paper, you wouldn't get that with a website, but you're right a website would be cheaper/greener. I reckon as MN is such a brilliant brand anyway that people would be happy to advertise to such a broad yet selective audience, but these are just assumptions as I know nothing about ad sales in this market. Surely Boden - we must make up 90% of their customer base.

you can't read a website in the bath and it's not so fun to curl up on the sofa with a computer.

I helped launch Martha Stewart Living (as a minion, admittedly, but I was there).

Sarf, that sounds promising. I am not great on the Twitter front so I would have to see how you do it in RL a bit, I think. If I ask nicely, can you email me your link? I am at boffinmum at hotmail dot co dot uk.

Will do - don't be critical!