what magazines do *you* buy or subscribe to..

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and why? (have a few myself)

There's something rather nice about the smell of a brand new magazine... have you noticed or is it just me who is strange?

I suspect they fumigate it with some sort of smell that makes you addicted to them or something...

I hate all the leaflets inside mags. grrr

The magazine aisle in tesco is littered with them.

Heat and Nursing Times

Sometimes I buy BBC parenting.

issymum - I used to work for the Data Protection Registrar many moons ago. Actually on second thoughts why would you be interested in that!

In Style
Country Living
Have just weaned myself off Heat after several years of dedicated reading. My Tuesdays evenings no longer feel quite the same but like bakedpotato I feel "all fresh and purged now"!

jennisaurus, bbc parenting is no more!

ha bundle, orbits of the BMJ are the first bits I read from the BMJ...
dh thinks I'm completely mad

Real - I like it

Ok so I am a totally crap mum and bought it once ages ago, I just felt I had to throw in a parenting magazine to go along with my celeb crap and work mag

F1 Racing and Good Housekeeping on subscription. Ideal Homes etc when I'm in the mood.

But I'm very interested in SOX404 . Anyone working for a 10k-filer? (US co)

Aha, don't scoff at that habit. I had a worldclass archive of every wimmin's mag going, for years, piled up in the loo of the flat I lived in. People used to vanish in there till I thought they'd died of food poisoning. Finally DP made me get rid of them.

And then I started writing for them

Private Eye

Period Homes and Traditional Living (so I can fantasise about how I'd like my house to look)

Radio Times

and various professional journals that I'm not going to name!

motherinferior - I have an oldish collection of Vogue going back almost 10 years. I am keeping them for my dd! Have also kept every UK issue of InStyle for her. Whether she'll want them or not, who knows! I stopped buying Vogue years ago but I rushed out and made my local Whsmith search for a current copy when she was born so that she would have one with her month of birth on.

I am a terrible magazine addict

I get Woman, Bella and Best on an almost weekly basis.

I have a subscription to Junior (I bought that) and one to Mother and Baby (got that as a present last Christmas so it has probably run out now). Also end up buying Prima Baby. I read Practical Parenting in the library .

DH gets car magazines like Classic and Sports car and other ones that look the same, have the same cars on the front and are basically the same.

I never read things like Hello and OK!; am I weird?

oooh, sarbanes-oxley! my last job before mat leave was a sox related project. i didn't name my professional journals in my list, nor the ones i buy periodically!

periodically - geddit?

And I'm also an accountant - occasionally copies of Accountancy seem to appear at our house but I don't know why.

After the day at work I had today I would rather not be an accountant. But that is going off the thread a bit

serenequeen!

subscribe to BBC Gardener's World
Eve buy somtimes
Amateur Gardening sometimes
Spirit & Destiny (haven't bought for ages but have about 10 copies....it's a spiritual mag in case you hadn't guessed...very Chakras/karma/meditation etc)
sometimes buy woman/hello or those celeb mags

Marie Claire
Mother and Baby
Junior Pregnancy and Baby (occasionally), but find it is a bit rah rah rah, with the £500 mock velour suedette mohair tights and the like
Nursing Times (only for the job adverts!)

I LOVE 'OK' and 'NOW', but can't justify buying them myself, so I pretend to go round to my friend's house cos i need a chat, but end up sitting in silence reading her copies... he he he he

I had a subscription to Junior but got fed up as it is aimed at people who have loads of money and can afford to dress their newborns entirely in cashmere.

I subscribe to Horse and Hound because it has up-to-date news, unlike other horsey mags which just have an endless round of 'how to tie a tail bandage/survive the winter/summer type articles.

I get Take a Break because the competitions are really easy and I have already won a couple of prizes and got hooked.

Also Private Eye and various cross-stitch magazines if I like the free kit on the front.

Can't see the point of those magazines that are full of pictures of celebrities and adverts for make-up!

Readers Digest - One day they will send me the £250K cheque!

Public Finance
Health Service Journal
Accountancy Age

(God that lot makes me sound dull)

fRoots (formerly folk roots)
Wisden Cricketer
All Out Cricket
House Beautiful for Mrs BGD