All the magazines I've loved are now rubbish!

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Ive been a big magazine lover and suscriber for many years!
This is the first year I've cancelled all my subscriptions. I find the articles increasingly short and basic and the magazines have increasingly more adverts and less content.

If you read a good mag let me know what it is!

YABU - There are good mags out there
YANBU - All mags have declined in value

The only one I read is vanity fair

Years ago I liked Woman and Woman's Own and bought them every week, until they turned into "tell us your story" Take a Break-type crap. I don't read magazines now apart from the odd craft/hobby magazines.

I haven't bought a magazine for years and randomly had two 'memories' on tik tok today. I used to love magazines!

I get The Lady.
Yes, I know that to a certain extent it's target market is older (I am 62 and feel some of the advice articles aimed at people even older) but it does have decent length articles and interviews. Plus it has my favourite puzzle - The Ladygram.

I buy vogue, get it delivered monthly

No perfume samples this month! And even when they have them, it's always the same ones 🙄😤

I bought world of interiors and it was just all ads

I quite like Good Housekeeping and get it for £1 a month right now (for 5 months). I used to like Marie Claire but it is only available online now, I think and I prefer physical magazines.

Gave up on Country Living some time ago because of
A The ads
B every woman in the magazine who starts a 'successful' homewares/cupcake/interior design business from her Queen Anne rectory with lots of lovely outbuildings also usually has a hedge fund manager husband. Or a husband who inherited 250,000,000 acres plus said Queen Anne rectory.

Used to read the occasional copy of Good Housekeeping but too many ads and the articles are all 3/4 photographs and 1/4 text.

My mum always read the People's Friend, and I miss having a flick through (I think it's probably because I miss my mum tho').

The slow death of print media has been going on since 2010s. They hardly have any editorial staff anymore to produce content. I used to work in the industry. Everyone started leaving/sacked by the end of 2010s. Sad. I used to LOVE magazines. Reading and working.

Totally agree.
I don't buy any magazines anymore. I had a long haul flight recently and had a flick through a few in Smiths at the airport and they were 80% ads and really expensive. I stuck with my book.

Im not a big magazine reader, but I quite like Prima. It's probably aimed at older women, but I quite enjoy it! Plus I get it from my library, so it doesn't cost me anything!

Yeah it’s a shame. I used to work in the industry. The problem now is most people get inspiration online. They are full of ads. Then you pay more for them than you would for a book from Amazon.

I was an avid magazine reader. I’ll still buy Red but that’s about it. And that’s hit and miss. I used to buy loads. Many are going bust.

I also used to work in the industry, and I used to love magazine so much - but now I never bother buying them.

I think I've always been a magazine addict looking back. Starting with Bunty and Girl Talk as a kid, then Shout as a pre-teen, followed by Bliss, Sugar & J-17 in my teens, then Cosmopolitan & Glamour and now settled with Red and Good Housekeeping. They are a little bit advert heavy but have always been an little luxury of mine.

I used to be in a job where I had to reference all the main glossies, Grazia, and then all of the weekly gossip mags. This was 2008 until 2020 and I was glad I wasn’t paying for them as in the end some of them were so thin.
I still get Vogue, even though it’s not what it was, Harper’s and Red.
The thing is once you’ve read them all and worked in similar/related fields they are just there to sell. There are ads of course but the style, beauty and home pages are there to do the same. Of course, you can get inspiration but you can get that anywhere now.
I feel there is too much choice of everything now, and I miss getting the huge Vogue September issue.
I still have all my favourite issues.
I started off reading Jackie then moved to Just Seventeen. I can remember really telling my careers teacher I wanted to work on a magazine and they told me it wasn’t a proper job.
Do still love an hour with a glossy and cuppa. Doesn’t happen as much now, though…

I remember when Glamour came out, it was fabulous, as was In Style.
I still have a Cosmo with Christie Brinkley in the cover that my mum’s hairdresser gave me. It was an education!

I've always liked the home decor magazines but haven't bought them for years as they are far too expensive and there are plenty of options available on the Internet to look at pics and read info about decor/homes.

I loved magazines and regularly bought them. I stopped due to the massive price increases that makes them the same as buying a book - so I'd rather do that - plus content decreased, ads increased making them less worth the increased price. I do miss buying them though.

Platinum, aimed at 50-60+, is not too bad.

I collect magazines from the 70s and 80s and they are fantastic. Beautiful fashion shoots, fab adverts and interesting articles.its so sad that it's all gone to pot.

I don’t think the prices reflect the content either! I’d happily pay up to 10 quid for something with great content - I’m just not sure there’s Anything available!

I read a few on my library app now, mainly food magazines but also The Spectator and The Oldie. Occasionally something else. But I would never buy any of them; if I didn't get them free, I wouldn't bother. It wouldn't be worth it. And I know reading them on an app isn't the same but then nor are the magazines anymore.

🤣 yes I can imagine! I didn't read Cosmo until my twenties but as a teen More magazine was quite an eye opener!

I'd forgotten about In Style. Also B and New Woman too, they were great in the early/mid 2000s.

I’ve just downloaded Readily app, lots of mags on there hopefully I’ll see something worth getting in print!

The glossy magazines in the late nineties, early 2000s were great. And decent freebies too - make up, bags, books, flip flops, bikini etc. And nothing out there now for teenage girls.

I sometimes read a take a break if they are left in the staff room and even that’s gone downhill. Suppose there are only so many Turkish love rats to write about.

Ever since Jackie back in the day, I’ve loved print magazines. Still read Grazia most weeks, but none of the remaining ones are the same, it’s wall-to-wall adverts now.