To think that Grazia magazine is sh*t

[DonutMum]

Sorry, v trivial rant on the way...

Honestly, maybe I'm getting old, but I have to rant about Grazia. I subscribed to it last year and am now soooo fed up with seeing with Kate Moss, Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston on the cover that I want to puke. And it's full of complete and utter drivel and what are quite clearly lies about our celebrity friends. And they keep sending it to me even though I cancelled my subscription 3 months ago. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP IT! Think I will now put it straight in the bin when it comes in but I can't help opening it in case I see some nice shoes.

Grump grump grump.

Am off to subscribe to Good Housekeeping now. Am clearly an old fart. Maybe it's the pregnancy making me bonkers.

I agree - it's rubbish. I used to get New Woman, but when that closed they substitued Grazia. I've had two calls asking why I haven't renewed my subscription. As if

What?!

No, I love Grazia. I buy Eve and Elle but really do need weekly fixes of magazines. Heat magazine is a load of rubbish now (or I am too old), and what else is there which is printed weekly that is worth reading? Woman's Own? Bella fgs?

I like the high street fashion in Grazia, plus the interiors.

There comes a point in every woman's life when it's time for............... Good Housekeeping

By guitar on Wed 21-May-08 08:52:11
grazia is just empty crap for the empty-headed who fawn over celebrity due to looks rather abilities and care about what kind of button is in fashion - am surprised to see any intelligent person pick it up

Guitar - of course it's empty crap, but it is good empty crap.

If you want fashion buy vogue.

if you want gawp at celebs buy the gossipy rubbish.

I do occasionally glance at good housekeeping on the shelf but haven't yet picked it up.

I'm on green parent atm, which is also on the turn.

maybe I need to accept my age and pick up GH

but what if it's good? what if I want to buy it again? is it a slippery slope to mrs beeton-dom?

Agree, a pile of crap. Would rather read the DM than any woman's magazine

Not one of you read cosmo

Nor me

Then it's just a short hop over to listening to radio 4 and the transformation is complete.

Oh Grazia is dreadful. I particularly loathe the way they their sleb stories: 'Oh rumour has it that Blah is anorexic/getting divorced/a junkie/a member of somecultorother who eats her toast with a knife and fork'. And then by the end of the article they've more or less told us that it's not actually true. Drivel, but with nice shoes.

Grazia and its ilk are vacuous crap. I once threw a copy out of a friends windown because she was pointing at pictures of Martine Macutcheon saying "look how slim she looks, she used to be huge, I'm a whale etc." (I would like to point out that I did retrieve it and place in recycling )

My self image improved a lot when I stopped buying magazines ages ago.

I already listened to Radio2 in the car for Stuart and Mark, then I accidently found Radio4 and found the debate rather interesting so I've been known to switch over when I'm in the car on my own.

I heart stuart maconie

I enjoy grazia but agree totally about the front cover thing, when i see Aniston or Jolie I just don't want to know. But they are fashion forward so good to keep up and Look is also a good one for fashion finds. I also get Elle Deco but am finding this more and more dull

I occasionally get Elle or Vogue but instantly regret it when I am 15 pages in and have not read a single article as I am still flicking through the adverts!

Get hand me down Red, Eve, Easy Living which are all quite good.

American Vogue is good if a little 'unworldly' ie NOONE LIVES LIKE THAT DO THEY???? but thats why i like it

Any mag that focuses heavily on celebs is pretty shit. I thought women's magazines only existed to be entertaining shit.

Maybe for more stimulating material read miseryofpoorpeople Take A Break...not

I hate Red, its just lists of things to buy, along the lines of if you only buy one thing this month make it a #1000 coat from Marc Jacobs. Yeah right.

I tried to make it my ny resolution to stop reading all these but faltered and got Closer and Heat this week, and felt crap.

Good Housekeeping I read at my mum's and I'm getting into it

I bought Country Living this weekend in my defense we were on teh way home from a long weekend by the sea and I was feeling nostalgic....

They're all shit- they charge you to buy a load of advertising. Read them at the dentists'. Even my Country Smallholding is full of adverts, but at least they're not for things like cosmetic surgery.

Woman and Home I tell you!
Inspiring stories,more classic fashion but still fashion,proof there ids life after a certain age

Women's magazines are all shite. I occasionally buy Glamour when I need putting back in touch with the world of clothes, and it makes me feel dirty.

I can't bear any of the glossy wimmins' mags - all full of adverts and absolute shite. You can get enough info about fashion and makeup from the Sunday supplements.

I am so fed up with Heat - one week is all celebs are too thin shocker, then all celebs are too fat shocker, then celebs embrace their curves.

Curves? Kelly Brook? Really?

I read She, Glamour, Red, Eve and In-Style.

Well, I say read, but mainly they just pile up on the magazine rack.

I think the only decent one atm is Red.

My mum wrote to Grazia to complain about a bit they did about Jewellery.
They used all different types of dead fish and then displayed the jewellery on it.

She was most upset by it and they never replied.