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Do you subscribe to any? Real paper mags? Digital?

My DH just started getting Popular Mechanic and Consumer Reports. Random. He also reads Sports Illustrated religiously. Me, I used to get MacWorld and did read it but it stopped and I never restarted it. I also get several professional mags but they don't always get read, LOL.

Honestly, most of my reading is digital or online now but I do like the feel of a magazine every once in a while. Plus, what else do you do in the bathroom? :rofl
 
I had a serious addiction to mags about 10 years ago , could not walk past a newsagency or supermarket without grabbing one. Mostly craft themed ( at one stage I would have bought any variety of craft, cross stitch, knitting, mixed media, Molly Makes etc) or House and Garden type ones with the occasional Vanity Fair thrown in. Now it's only the occasional food mag or Nat geo Travel - still love that one.

Ps grew up in a household who were all bathroom readers (and we had an outside loo) but the thought of it truly horrifies my husband so my children grew up puzzled by bathroom reader references.
 
The only magazine I've bought was a Somerset Digital Scrapbooking Magazine. I'm just not a huge magazine person. I'd rather read a book.
 
The only real time I ever read a magazine is on the beach. LOL!

I used to like the scrap magazines, but found most of the things I looked for are now online. Online reading is where I get my news and various other articles.
 
I used to get a bunch of stamping, cardmaking type mags but phased those out when I took up scrapbooking. Got a bunch of those til they went out of business. I've taken photography ones, Consumer Reports, Good Housekeeping in the past. Now I take nothing. I actually have no interest in any of them anymore.
 
I treat myself with a FLOW magazine every now and then. Just love the eye candy in there and the stories are nice as well.
That's about it, I guess.
I keep my bathroom secrets to myself :giggle
 
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I used to love the mindless gossip magazines like US weekly and People, but I don't even read those anymore because everything they print is old news already with Yahoo reporting everything 5 minutes before it happens. Lol. so now, we don't get any magazines.
 
The only time I look at magazines is in the DR or Dentist office and I don't have my ipad. - I can't stand the continued on page..... I'm a book person anyway. For whatever reason my DH reads them back to front, maybe that helps with the continued on page thing....
 
jk703 said:
I used to like the scrap magazines, but found most of the things I looked for are now online. Online reading is where I get my news and various other articles.
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Yep... it was really hard for me to get rid of my Simple Scrapbooking magazines. I loved that one well before you could get any inspiration online. Now, I just have to click over to the TLP gallery to get more ideas than I could ever want!
 
LOVE paper magazines, I used to get a monthly one from a health store called Holland & Barret here....it was full of tips on natural looking after yourself, fabulous articles on agoraphobia, fibromyalgia, care of your hair, and some of the most amazing recipes I have ever cooked!!!
but to be honest, haven't been reading much nothing lately apart from a book a month (I used top read one every 3 days) because I am working in my being able to get out of bed to do a bit more in the house, so in turn I will be able to leave the house more often, even if it is to get to the park in the wheelchair.... so, not much reading for now !
 
I get some of the Stampington ones... Somerset Studio, Art Journaling, sometimes the Digital one, and sometimes Sew Somerset. I would subscribe to them all if I could afford it. I really used to love picking up the one they had about bloggers, and Mingle is gorgeous too. I get the Smithsonian... but it comes digitally. And my grandma gives me National Geographic once she's read them. I like to subscribe to the Atlantic if we can get a deal. And I subscribe to Poets & Writers. We used to get a bunch of political mags, but now we read all of that stuff online.

My daughter gets Real Simple so I flip through that on occasion. She also randomly got a free subscription to Architectural Digest after she bought her new car :giggle

I admit I have a bit of an addiction to the glossy pages of a magazine. In fact I was just plotting a trip to Barnes & Noble for tomorrow. ;) But then I also like to think that I'm using them for other creative work (chopping up some for collage... using some as inspiration for poems... etc.

There is no bathroom reading in our house. We barely have uninterrupted time as it is. :giggle
 
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I have a soft spot for print magazines. I just need to hold onto a paper copy for the full tactile and reading experience. No digital for me. My faves are what I subscribe to: Martha Stewart Living, Southern Living, Threads, Country Living. I like to pick up Mary Jane's Farm and Mother Earth News when I find it, and the UK editions of Country Living, Period Living and Country Homes and Interiors. I'm still saddened about mags that have closed down: Hobby Farm Home, Hobby Farm, Mary Englebreit (years ago...), Country Home.


I also purchase quilting, knitting, craft, and gardening mags if I see things I want to make in them. I prefer purchasing the mags over books since you can toss/recycle them when they become dated.
 
Ok, I really like magazines. I like holding them and flipping through them and the way they look stacked on my bookshelf. I have subscribed to Time and Martha Stewart Living in the past. Currently I subscribe to Better Homes & Gardens and Real Simple. And I'm kind of a sucker for the cheap specials they run every now and then - like $10 for a year. So I have subscribed to a few others for just a year because it was so inexpensive - Cooking Light, a travel magazine, etc.
 
QuiltyMom said:
I have a soft spot for print magazines. I just need to hold onto a paper copy for the full tactile and reading experience. No digital for me. My faves are what I subscribe to: Martha Stewart Living, Southern Living, Threads, Country Living. I like to pick up Mary Jane's Farm and Mother Earth News when I find it, and the UK editions of Country Living, Period Living and Country Homes and Interiors. I'm still saddened about mags that have closed down: Hobby Farm Home, Hobby Farm, Mary Englebreit (years ago...), Country Home.


I also purchase quilting, knitting, craft, and gardening mags if I see things I want to make in them. I prefer purchasing the mags over books since you can toss/recycle them when they become dated.
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ohh I used to go around the couple of blocks around where we lived before we moved here, and there were some offices who were throwing away Home & Garden Magazines every month!!!! there were another couple made by the BBC, and some travel magazines. All of them are very expensive here, and I was delighted because I was always re decorating and got ideas from them...

a couple of years ago, I was hanging around the Free-cycle site, someone was giving away 120 magazines of home decor, gardens, and fashion... I got them, still have quiet a lot of them left!!!
Thanks for reminding me about this!!!!
 
Mags for me have always been purely visual, eye candy type things. & I was often a lot like KarenW "in the couldn't pass a mag stand without grabbing one" department. Anything home & garden and crafty or recipe related was fair game. I also subscribed to a few paper scrapbooking mags back in the day. I would drool over all the ideas, pretty pictures & inspiration, but often didn't read much of the content in these mags to be honest. If I wanted to really read, I would grab a book.
Right now I have Click magazine as the only subscription. Debating on renewing it again or not ...
 
I have always loved magazines and used to subscribe to a bunch, especially the scrapbooking ones back in the day. But I have always hated the clutter and waste and piles waiting for me to take them to recycling. Now I subscribe to Next Issue (digital magazine newstand type of thing). I have access to over a hundred which covers pretty much all of the popular mags. I have a lot of reading time while waiting around at various kid's sports. ;)
 
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