To hate Red Magazine after years of loving it

[merrygoround51]

Yes I know buying magazines is wasteful and unnecessary but I always enjoyed Red and in the olden days Easy Living magazines.

Red now seems to be going all arty photos and hipster. I am I just too old now? Is that it. Do I need to move on to Woman and Home ? I am not high fashion enough for Vogue

What mags do you read?

Take a break, that’s life, real people, pick me up, tv choice, crochet now

Tatler
The Spectator

I agree. Red has definitely changed.

Doctor Who

Good Food

And any Christmas ones I can get my hands on.

We subscribe to Readily, which you pay £7.99 a month for and get access to hundreds of magazines for the one price (you read them on your device). It's brilliant. Means we can read any magazine we want for a fraction of the cost - it's great for holiday times - especially as my husband had a habit of spending £6.99 on some computer magazines, which soon mounts up!

Private Eye

Good Housekeeping occasionally.

New Scientist

Agree that Red has gone down hill.

This happened to me and I feel now I fall between what's on offer. I've tried woman and home and good housekeeping. Better than red, but aimed at those older than me.

I agree, Read it in the summer, it’s really empty!

You know you can read loads of magazines free online if you join your local library? Look at digital services on the local authority/library website and join up.

I used to like it too, then got really cross with a summer one I picked up recently. It was ALL (every bit of it) about self improvement and 'inspirational' stories of self employment...as if nothing else mattered. It was meant to be a 'career special' but offered no alternatives...(it seemed to me nothing 'useful' at all but all airy fairy type stuff and seemed very self indulgent, whereas it used to be more self deprecating and funny.

I wondered of it was just me, maybe not.

I sort of like Good Housekeeping at the hairdressers but every issue has the same features that bore me and cringe me out all at the same time.

"I'm 55 and feel 30 now the stylists have dressed me in a bright orange pantsuit with a large red chunky necklace!"

or " I'm staring a new career and a new life self employed because I'm a strong woman standing all sassy and yet self consciously"

or my fav "I have had an emotional thing happen in my life...a bit like the character in my new Novel!..."

It's been the same for years.

I agree that you can outgrow a magazine OP, this has happened to me in the past. Now I read books instead!

I do read lots of books but I like a good womens mag and the escapism and sometimes inspiration it offers around clothes, decorating, cooking etc. Its candyfloss for the mind, I know, but sometimes thats what I want.

I am a few years off Woman and Home and Red should speak to women like me but i just find its gone almost a bit whimsical, which I am most certainly not!

I used to read take a break, chat, pick me up etc but lately I feel they re all much the same and don t relate to my life.
I have never experienced abuse ( the child abuse articles are particularly harrowing).
I ve been cheated on but it s not worthy of a story.
I know who my mum and dad are and love them.
My dc and I love each other.
I havent had an addiction (apart from energy drinks and cats).
I haven't robbed an old lady.
During the summer I read my mum s people s friend. There are some cracking good stories in it. .
Mostly I order books second hand online which is actually cheaper than a bunch of samey magazines.

Also Red used to be expensive when I was young so God knows how much it is now.

My mum passes me her Good Housekeeping which has some interesting articles, but the fashion is definitely more for her than me.

New Scientist is the best value for us because we'll all read it.

SFX
Fortean Times
Dr Who
Prima and Good Housekeeping (but these are passed to me by a friend who Just. Won't. Stop.)
I now know how to decorate my living room cheaply like the inside of a spaceship, whilst leaving a corner free for the ghosts.

I have felt like this for years. I used to read Eve (anyone remember it?) magazine about 10-15 years ago, but it stopped. Now I would only ever buy red, and I don't particularly like that either, for the same reasons as you.

I am not interested in fitness magazines, hobby magazines, showbiz magazines, fashion or beauty magazines, food managazines etc - that doesn't leave much choice.

I don't mind Good Housekeeping. Sometimes I read The Week, Psychologies or Private Eye, but I don't really like any of them either.

I've fallen out of love with the whole women's magazine thing I think.

I don't care about the £40 new highlighter or the pages of clothes no-one in real life would go out in. I can get plenty of recipes from the web. I resent paying for ten pages of adverts. Only rarely is there anything meaty and thought provoking to read.

They all just seem lacking in substance and I flick through them and think "Well that was a waste of money". I won't be buying any more.

Also a readily subscriber, so many magazines

Don't buy them now but did read
Take a Break
Chat
Fate and Fortune
Best (or Bella)
Glamour (years and years ago)
Cosmo

There were probably more

Oh, I've at stages read most of them, bar Cosmo, I'm too prudish

Just Seventeen, Smash Hits, Heat, Hello, Grazia, Company, Eve, Easy Living.......

I just can't understand how magazines don't cop that women in their 40s will generally be major consumers - be it for themselves, their children or their homes.

So surely it makes sense to produce a mag that speaks to women of my age!

I don't read any. Have a Private Eye subscription for DP and DD. Used to buy a glossy occasionally if there was a beauty freebie I wanted, but found the mags SO empty of content, just sooooo much advertising.

I did go through a weird stage of buying Woman and Womans Own every week in my early 20s, no idea what that was about!