If you don't read celeb mags what mags do you read?

[TheBlonde]

I freely admit to regularly buying OK! & The National Enquirer

If you don't read these rags what do you read?
I have tried Good Housekeeping but it was too dull

I subscribe to Vogue and Living Etc.

I usually buy Junior.

I sometimes buy Grazia and Look.

Magazines:

Brain, Child (U.S. parenting mag)
Bitch
Ms. (must renew subscription)
U.S. Catholic (U.S. Catholic monthly)
The Tablet (Catholic Weekly)
Bust
Diva

Read the Guardian

If I want to read something frivolous, I buy the Independent or something by Ben Elton

House and home type magazines are my one weakness

oh and I read my mum's Saga magazines

They are really good!

I used to read Eve but got sick of feeling poor; women's magazines always make me feel poor ("Great buys for under £50!" )

I used to read Mslexia but got bored of it

I get Radio Times

books; I read books

I don't really read papers either

I do also read books. And The Observer and The News of the World on Sunday.

I am also in the "buys the economist then feels guilty for not reading all of it" camp! I have now subscribed to 6 free issues of The Week. DH works in a newsagents and at the weekend brings all of the leftover supplements home, that usually keeps us going!

I've given up buying glossies or sleb weeklies as I have decided you are just paying for the privilege of reading adverts (that includes the articles - Oh look, marie claire recommends Chanel Mascara this month, oh look, on the next page Chanel have taken out a full page ad. Plus all those ridiculous Change your life/career/weight/debt in 21 steps - I could bloody write them!)

oooh I'd like to have a bunch of supplements - that would be fun!

magazines in The Times

MIL copy of Good Housekeeping

I did have Eve on subscription but realised I had 3 months unread in a pile and cancelled it

Sunday Times (throughout the week..)
Good Housekeeping
Sainsbury/ Waitrose/ M&S mags (whatever I pick up shopping)
Health & Fitness (yeah, right....)
DH's MTB mags
DH's Computer Active
Marie Claire or Red sometimes
Marketing
PR week

What an exciting life I lead...

Oh DP also subscribes to Time Out so I read that too.

Take a break
That's life
Huisgenoot (SA mag)

Am liking the hints about Grazia & current affairs - I loved that aspect of the old Marie Claire (was it Sally Brampton? and did it go when she went? Her problem page in the Sunday Times Style rag is such a redeeming beacon in what is otherwise my bete noire of rampant meretricious disgracefulness. (And if I think that of what's considered a broadsheet ...))

I like Private Yeo, occasionally.
Time Out, yes - does it count as a mag though?

I've been a London Review of Books subscriber for decades - used to be diligent about reading it, have slipped recently because have discovered The Book People's bargain sets of open-your-mind books - am currently reading Mary Kingsley on her travels in West Africa at end of 19th c. - what a fabulous woman. She absolutely needs to be the subject of a Cranford-style drily-funny subtle & sophisticated dramatisation. Any media producers looking for "content" please note.

books

Have a subscription to Eve, Good Housekeeping and Good Food. Will also buy Grazia if I come across it.

Really miss Sunday papers here but have discovered we can get the Saturday Telegraph (!) delivered on a Sunday so got that for DH for his birthday.

Love house magazines too.

A group of us get together here once a month and swap magazines so I usually end up with OK and Hello then - don't feel so bad if I haven't actually bought them! But I do buy them sometimes.

Hate all those Heat/Closer/Take a Break ones though.

I LOVE magazines. Could read most. And yes, do read the celeb ones... not sure when that started...

Subsribe to Glamour and Company for easy reads (both were £1 an issue or something). Have subscribed to Eve, easy Living, House Beautiful, New Woman, Prima (I quite like Prima - at least it teaches you to knit a cushion or something), er... Red, She... all cos of offers.

Time Out when there is an offer of £1 for 12 issues, then I cancel.

Grazia annoys me - one paragraph on a really interesting issue. And that's it!

My problem is I can't remember which magazine it is that I actually like, so end up buying the 'wrong one'

Read Practical Parenting in the library,
Junior - my friend lent me that one - it really is ridiculous, isn't it?

Ok, I am addicted to magazines...

Oh I love Junior. The column by James Brown is fab and I love all the articles on behaviour and development. Also like the local area section they do each month. Clothes are ridiculous though.

I have had a serious magazine habit since I was young;I used to devour my mum's Woman's Weekly and Woman when I was a little girl.
I now buy Living etc, Red and Easy Living. Find that Easy Living has gone downhill and get very annoyed with the smug editor's letter.
Have weaned myself off Grazia.
Love the Guardian and The Times on Saturdays.

There is a fashion segment in this month's Junior where the outfit worn by one little girl comes to £1250.00

How realistically affordable.

Mind you, the mag itself is almost a fiver.

With Kids was a good magazine (For Grown ups. Who also have kids) Must have gone into liquidation or something, because it just disappeared. Was like a paper version of mn. Sensible and informative.

Only read Country Homes and Interiors for the drool factor, now.

times style
grazia
vogue
junior
olive
bedrooms bathrooms kitchens
tatler
bazaar
you magazine
esconde nast traveller

they all get sent to my mums when i have finished with them, then there is a strict handing out system. they probably go through about 30 people. some even ask when is your hifi sending more juniors.

I feel better about my mag habit now that I see others read more than me!

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I don't often. I read books and the Independent.

In fact I can't remember the last magazine I did read. Probably some sort of baby thing when I was pregnant with no#1 - didn't bother with the others. And the big glossy ones are so expensive

have Grazia delivered. Is a bit celeb-y but quite cerebal too. And beautiful fashion!

(But I do always have a leaf through the slagmags at checkout in sains.)