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

I enjoy reading Living from time to time. Very few adverts and mostly focused on the countryside.
DH buys me subscription to House and Gardens, which I pass to a friend. She passes on her Vogue to me and then I pass it on again. So good value all round.
I find that after a year the subscribed magazines are repetitive so I move onto another.

I read a few online through PressReader which is free from the local library.

Quite like Tatler.

Yes it's a bit posh but it's nice escapism. And a lot of it is quite interesting.

The first issue I brought was because they had the best pair of freebie sunglasses

I used to buy @10 magazines a month. Fashion, travel and interiors. Haven't bought a single one for the last ten years. Occasionally have a quick flick through Vogue at the hairdressers. It's a shadow of its former self. Sad.

Used to enjoy reading bliss and sugar when I was a teenager, can't say I'm bothered about magazines now though, I like books

I read The Simple Things.

I was a big fan of Juno when my DC were young.

I used to read a lot of magazines. From the time I could read more or less fluently, I'd flit between Twinkle Comic For Little Girls and whatever my DM had left on the sofa in the lounge. I developed an attachment to Woman and Woman's Own many years before I entered their demographic, mainly because of the fiction, which I loved. In the 70s, weekly magazines were very different to how they are now. Instead of a celebrity on the cover and loads of lurid straplines, there'd be a pleasant-looking woman-next-door and information about contents such as recipes, knitting patterns and features. A particularly memorable item was about how women were treated in a mental health facility (or psychiatric hospital as they were called then.) A little strong for a child perhaps, but it left me with a favourable impression of what women's magazines could achieve.

Now I hardly read magazines at all, though I'm considering using some of my Christmas money for a subscription to the New Yorker, BBC History or BBC Wildlife. I can't have all three, so am giving it a lot of thought.

Join your local library

Download PressReader

Read any magazine/newspaper free

I have a subscription to Private Eye, which I thoroughly enjoy and if I read it from cover to cover keeps me going for a couple of days.

Railway Modeller?

Still as good if not better than it was when I first got it in the late 70's

Everything's pretty much Groundhog day now. Same old retread subjects, same old retread comments.

I LOVE magazines and used to get Jackie when I was a teen in NZ (drawings of clothes, not photos!).
I have read many over the years and now subscribe to Wiman & Home and House Beautiful. I am 60 and I find these interesting and relatable unlike Vogue etc.

I was obsessed with magazines from the days of Twinkle onwards. You name it, Bunty, Judy, the Beano, Just Seventeen, More, I had it. I was a member of the Desperate Dan club in the days when you had to get an Irish postal order in sterling to post over for membership, it took some effort!

Nowadays I buy the Daily Mail for You Magazine on Saturday and the Sunday Times maybe once a month for the magazines. The Irish Times does a really good magazine once a month called the Gloss, and I occasionally get the Tatler with the Sunday Business Post. There's another great Irish magazine called Irish Country Magazine and I get Grazia or Vanity Fair when I'm going on holidays. And that's plenty, but I used to spend loads. Was a big fan of Now about twenty years ago and bought lots then.

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I feel like all of the glossies are just full of ads!

The only one I bother with is Tatler. I love seeing how the other half live and dream.of being so rich that I could buy an item of clothing worth the same as a deposit for a house! ( actually I think it's immoral to spend that much on clothing, IRL I'd give that money to charity if I was really that rich)

Fascinating to watch the aristos tho.

In the early 00s I bought Cosmo and Marie Claire, then Vogue entered the mix and eventually vogue was the only one I bought. Haven't read Vogue for about five years now. The few times I've read Harpers Bazar I've enjoyed it.

Most are pretty shit. I think a lot is about cutting costs.

I also think reading levels are lower in the population overall are lower, and the attention span.

Ooooh, just remembered, in the late 90s I would buy ID and Dazed and Consfused magazine and felt very cool! I'd probably buy one of these now and feel incredibly old.

Red, Hello Fashion and 25 Beautiful Homes are good. I used to love Grazia but it's crap now.

Depends what sort of magazine you’re looking for - I like ‘The simple life’. It has interesting topics and reasonable length articles, a nice recipe or two.

I used to love Marie Claire’s it had some great articles, and I always flipped to their life story at the back as it told stories of some amazing women. One that I recently remembered, and due to the forthcoming film, was one about Maria Callas.

Now I will pick up Grazia despite following online as I still prefer having it physically in my hand.

Cosmo in the 80's indeed was an education, and not just in the raunch department. You might get a long excerpt from a new novel, say a Fay Weldon, which gave you a hint as to buy it or not. Spotlights on original designers that, as a youngster, I'd never have heard of, like Kaffe Fassett or Zoran. Business and financial advice. The glorious Jocasta Innes on cooking, creative entertaining ideas, or doing up your place on a budget.

I loved the fun essays by Marcelle about her romantic escapades, and old Tom Crabtree's psychologist page. The overall experience of reading it was upliftment, and a glimpse into otherwise unknown corners. The belief that our lives had fun possibilities to explore. That's why we bought it.

(The sex tips came in handy too!)

Download Readly. It's an Apple app, I think it's £12 per month but can cancel anytime.
You can select almost any magazine (and newspapers but I don't use that function) and they will automatically download monthly.
Much cheaper than buying individual magazines, even if you just subscribe whilst having holidays etc

@idontthinksomate I still love a flick through my old copies of Sugar and Bliss. Happier, simpler times.

@IDontHateRainbows Years ago Tattler featured a kind of review of my former employers wedding. This person was an absolute tyrant who made many people's lives hell and whilst they were posh it was not posh enough apparently as said review was really quiet scatching about them and their ideals.

Never read a copy since but still remain fond of that particular issue!