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

Don't like sleb mags
Don't like fashion mags
Don't like make up & beauty mags
Don't like "work 25 hours a day, cook a fabulous meal, bring up sextuplets, look amazing, satisfy your man and knit your own orgasm" mags
Don't like People's Friend/Womans Own etc
Don't like Take a Break (my hamster ran off with my goldfishes best friends artichoke)
Don't like house & country type magazines.......

Perhaps I should buy porn?

I dont read magazines but read Times2 most days, and some times get the Times at the weekend, and read the lifestyle bits.

I do read blogs though

What has happened to Eve? It used to be great, lots of women doing their own thing type articles and great reasonably priced clothes. Now its all beautiful seaside £1million one bed cottages or last months fashion maths thing was a Versace cuff costing £350 - but if you wear it everyday for a year its only a pound a day!! Bargain!
I used to love it but now I turn every page grumbling like an old peer of the realm in his gentleman's club.

Management Today, Chemistry in Britain and The Sky at Night.

Yep, I'm a geek.

I subscribed to (but have now cancelled)

Country Living -I like the interiors but sheep rearing is a little out of my league.Not many sheep in Kingston.

Ideal Homes?- Generic, boring, uninspiring, hence cancellation

Easy Living -too smug.

So now I have saved myself a few quid and space in my magazine rack!

Sorry that should have been Chemistry World

I love House and Home Ideas, it is full of lovely things and sensible ideas, also it fits in my handbag

morningpaper, I nominate you as having the most highbrow mag reading list.

Is Brain, child any good? Have wondered about subscribing but worry it might be a bit earnest for me. Have limited patience with earnestness. What do you think?

My reads are:

Observer Food Magazine (have given up buying the Observer otherwise and am on a one woman campaign to destroy Observer Woman simply through the power of hate)

Easy Living (though ditto all comments about smugness)

Guardian Weekend supplement

Woman and Home (has strongly older lady aspect but is actually quite good, less smug and aspirational than some - and fashion you could actually wear).

Cannot bear Grazia, celeb mags, Elle (stop talking about the latest exclusive spa half way up a mountaintop in Yukatan where all the supermodels go; stop talking about models full stop),

Southeastastra, in answer to your quiestion, it's a publishing phenomenon called Shit Flatplanning

In our (low-brow, low-rent) magazines, if we have split articles, it's usually down to advertising sales, ie, a particular company want a particular page with a particular article. And as advertising is Big Revenue, they have to do as the advertisers say

subscription to Red from Mum for my birthday
New scientist
Private Eye

Only get 1 newspaper a week - Sunday Times - lasts all week

Oh also Times Travel mag on subscription.

Have to confess to reading the "reveal" and "closer" mags at the hairdressers this morning!

Runners World

Books....

I do read whatever Psychomum has lying around though (First, Grazia etc)

Very occasionally I buy New Scientist.

Private Eye
Cosmo or Marie Claire for long train journeys only
I had a brief period of getting the People's Friend (a gift subscription I hasten to add) and it was surprisingly addictive. Cake recipes and serial stories about nice girls working in flower shops. I still occasionally eye it up in Mozzas.

Easy Living
Selvedge (arty farty textiles mag that costs a small fortune!)

have dabbled with vogue, red, junior and the awful heat z- lister type ones too.

and for slovenly slobonthesofainmyjammies days i sometimes buy the bonkers weekly ones like take a break and bella for the laff-at-em factor - its like jeremy kyle show in print lol

Books.

Have subscriptions to: BBC Good Food, Easy Living and Oprah (my mother buys me a subscription every year).

And the mags that come with the Sunday Times.

Have no tolerance or patient for 'celeb' or gossip mags or tabloids.

Margo&Jerry: Brain, Child is EXCELLENT

I think EVERY MNer would really love it

It's funny and articulate

Subscribe now while the dollar is low! (errr well there's probably no RUSH with that particular issue)

I also get Private Eye
and occasionally read Green Parenting

I also have a magazine habit I buy them like other people buy cigarettes. Can't pass a newsagents without buying one. I even buy magazines for my sister just so I have one to read.
Junior
Easy Living
Grazia
Look
Star - I can't help it
Eve - also wondering what's happened to it but still buying. Actually I suscribed and got a Dolce Gusto Coffee machine free!
Ideal Homes
Pyscologies
Glamour

I even look on the websites that do 6 months for £1 just so I can try other magazines.

I am horribly addicted

usually get

Empire
SFX
Red (gift subscription)
Jumior

sometimes / occasionally

Uncut
Vogue
Runners World
Songlines
Word
Eve
Private Eye
spectator
Prospect
New Statesman
Good Food

ooh thanks mp...off to find my credit card

i read books. most magazines ar e too dull boring and repetitive. get a years subscritpiotn, and thats it, the rest are all the same, year in year out.

The Economist (read fairly cover to cover, except for the more technical economic bits).
HSJ (NHS trade mag)
Otherwise books bokks and more books...