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Do you still get magazine subscriptions?

I used to get Better Homes and Garden, Country Living and maybe one other. I had noticed the magazines getting a little skimpier towards the last couple years I was still receiving the magazines. I would catch BHG at the orthodontist when I'd take DD each month and recently at the oral surgeons office. Got me thinking I miss my subscriptions and I think I'd like to start getting BHG again.

Do you still get magazines or do you view them online?

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  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    Yes. Real Simple, Conde Nast Traveler, National Geographic Traveler, Sports Illustrated, Consumer Reports in paper copies, Rolling Stone electronic only. I receive the AARP publications and American Rose [American Rose Society (ARS) publication] based on membership in those organizations. I have the NY Times delivered on the weekends. I gave my mom the BHG subscription that came with the ARS membership.

  • 8 years ago

    yes..I hate online versions.

    currently-House Beautiful..Times..couple of travel magazines for DH

    (I should do Town and Country..they striked me once as being better written than others)

  • 8 years ago

    My 9 year old looks forward to getting the Economist every Saturday. Other paper magazines we get that are good (better) for kids are Smithsonian and Natural History. I like being able to toss a magazine to a kid before driving them somewhere. They get plenty of electronics time doing other things.

    Find a girl scout if you're thinking of renewing or subscribing--most regions have a fall sale that includes candy, nuts, and magazine subscriptions. It's ending soon...

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    I really love magazines (don't judge ;-)

    Not in order of preference:

    New Yorker

    Arch. Digest

    House Beautiful

    Veranda

    Economist

    Country Life UK

    House and Garden UK

    Town & Country

    Harper's

    The Atlantic

    Lapham's Quarterly

    Cabana (I thought it would be all hype- but it's really awesome)

    Elle Decor

    Foreign Affairs

  • 8 years ago

    Fori, Get the Economist subscription in your child's name. I've had my own New Yorker subscription since I was 12.

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    I checked into Cabana..it looked awesome but the price knocked me off my feet

    (I wanted to buy just one magazine first to get an impression)

    If I didn't feel so guilty over buying books..but I do buy them. not all the time. but the moment I have an excuse,

    (we subscribed to all worthy magazines when I was little(besides newsletters etc). Lots of new books /previously prohibited books/ foreign newly translated books got published this way. There were couple really good magazines for youth too.

    what we didn't have-anything on design or decor. Nada.)

  • 8 years ago

    No subscriptions. I’d rather have trees and read online.

  • 8 years ago

    Better Homes & Gardens
    Vanity Fair
    This Old House
    Sunset
    Martha Stewart Living (don't judge, it's inexpensive and not that bad)
    Biblical Archaeology Review

  • 8 years ago

    The trees are farmed. They are planted to be harvested. If they were not used for paper making, they would not exist.


  • 8 years ago

    april, my first two years of Cabana were free because I am still on PR people's lists, so that offsets the cost a bit :-)

  • 8 years ago

    What tackykat said--I really enjoy having magazines available; they are so nice to read when I'm not up for getting into a book but want some easy evening reading material.

    My rule is $5 or less for a year's subscription and 'tis the season because Amazon has great sales this time of year. I get tons: Coastal Living, Money, House Beautiful, Time, The Atlantic, Cooking Light, Southern Living, Elle Decor. After I read them I donate the magazines to our staff lunch room so they get recycled/reused.

  • 8 years ago

    I used to be a magazine addict. I guess that I've substituted internet addiction for magazines. I do still subscribe to Reader's Digest, which I save for plane and car trips.

  • 8 years ago

    I do but I wish I didn't! Years (and I mean years!) ago, every year my kids did a school fundraiser selling magazines. It was hugely profitable to the school, like they would make $20K from it. I'd renew every year. At one point, I started looking at the address labels to see the expiration date and they were all well into the future. I haven't renewed a magazine in years, since then, but somehow I still get BHG! I used to get Southern Living also, but that one finally petered out as well as a few others. I do get Cooking Light b/c dh had some credit card reward points that were expiring so he used them to subscribe. I do like getting that one - I love to cook and while I see recipes online all the time, I'll like looking at the recipes in the magazine too.

  • 8 years ago

    I wonder if this digital vs paper magazine divide comes out along the same lines with paper versus digital planner/organizers.

  • 8 years ago

    I was a writer and editor for a woman's magazine, so I will always support them. I get The New Yorker, (which I love) and recently I've been receiving Sports Illustrated which I never ordered and never read.

  • 8 years ago

    I used to get many subscriptions but I ended up with piles to read... so I have dropped all but Southern Living -- which is hilarious because I am not even a tiny bit southern. Not sure how that was the one that survived.

    Honestly, I read magazines two places-- B&N and the hair salon. Oh.. and the airport/plane. I usually buy what I read at B&N and of course the airport.

    I also stopped the paper. My local paper is awful. No loss there. I have a digital subscription to NYT + other times add ons.

  • 8 years ago

    IT's funny my neighborhood used to be littered with the little blue NYT bags and now everyone has a digital only subscription, except for me.

  • 8 years ago

    Rita, it’s my experience that older people want paper. Younger people more frequently go digital.

    my community is considering the elimination of a paper newsletter right now. Keep or get rid of goes right down the old/young line.

  • 8 years ago

    We went to a digital NYT subscription because the Times articles are available earlier online. By the time the paper came I had already read half of it online.

    Paper magazine subscriptions:

    Architectural Digest

    The New Yorker

    House Beautiful (on and off)

    That's it.

  • 8 years ago

    No

  • 8 years ago

    I used to subscribe to Architectural Digest, This Old House and BH&G. It's been years now, and I was just thinking I might start TOH again.

  • 8 years ago

    Magazines are so full of ads, that I go to the book shop and browse what's new. If something looks interesting, I buy it.

    Bon Appetit is the only print magazine subscription I receive. I subscribe to the NY Times, Washington Post and New Yorker online.


  • 8 years ago

    Thinking about the NYT situation in my neighborhood, it's def not an age thing. I am the only paper holdout of any age- octogenarians and nonagenarians don't feel the need to get their fingers inky like I do. I just love paper. I keep stocks of notebooks from all over the world, reams of paper and my library overflows.

  • 8 years ago

    I like magazines and get more than I can even list, I use points from a survey site to get them free and donate them to my library as soon as possible since the library budget gets lower every year. I like the paper magazines so I can read them on my treadmill.

  • 8 years ago

    I’m with terriks. I used to get a LOT of magazines, and then I’d pick up others at the bookstore. I cut out the bulk of them around 2005 when we went through some financial troubles and I never really got back into them. I got my first iPad in 2011 and it became my bedtime reading material. I did have an electronic subscription to Dwell for a while, but I found I would forget to read it (same thing with the online local newspaper subscription DH insisted on). There’s just something about having that smooth new magazine in my hands and flipping the pages.

    Now that we’re back in an MCM home I’m going to reboot my Atomic Ranch sub, but I think that’s about it.

    *I should add that I LOVED the magazine Cottage Living while it existed, and I still have every issue. I’ve dumped all my other archived magazines except American Bungalow, Atomic Ranch and my sweet Cottage Living. DH hates that I’ve moved them all around, and especially now that they now live on the shelf in HIS office (my office shelves are ca 1954 and too short for magazines other than National Geographic).

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    I never did have a lot of subscriptions. Country Living and then Country Home until they pissed me off and I stopped them. Cancelled National Geographic when a Murdoch took it over. That one hurt. Still get Consumer Reports but I think that's it for paper. DH gets a few paper mags but only ones that aren't available online. We share digital subscriptions to several magazines and newspapers. Related - Our local weekly newspaper went from 'kind of silly not really news but sometimes amusing' to 'seriously stupid'. We didn't renew but they still mail it to us every week. shrug We use the newspapers for weed blocking in the vegetable garden.

  • 8 years ago
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    I like magazines and tried to reduce to just a couple. Then the grandkids started selling them as fundraisers so I started trying a few more last year. So now my subscriptions are back up, at least temporarily, while I test a few. My current ones are Southern Living, Alabama Gardener, Fine Gardening (comes with our botanical garden membership), House Beautiful, Cooking Light, Country Living, Cook’s Country. Oh and DH gets Consumer Report and a couple of others I sometimes pick up. And I did try a digital version of a one or two but I really prefer the paper version.

  • 8 years ago

    Nope - too many ads and too little substance. I don't read them online for the same reason plus I just don't like reading magazines online. DH gets The Week which I sometimes read.

    In lieu of magazines I surf the net and even then end up avoiding some sites because of the excessive advertising. Same as I avoid pretty much all non-streaming TV and radio.

  • 8 years ago

    I miss Ruth Reichl and Gourmet Magazine. I cancelled my long time subscription to Bon Appetite when the former editor at GQ took the reigns. He's an ass. But I see now he will be replaced by Bobby Flay??

    Otherwise, in our house, we subscribe to France Magazine, Fine Woodworking, Road and Track...

  • 8 years ago

    my dh wanted to get me home delivery of the NYT as an xmas gift years ago. Unfortunately, they don't deliver it to my part of NY state. They have a mailing option. Seriously? It wouldn't even be yesterday's news, it would be at least 3 days old by the time it arrived. I buy the Sunday NYT (crossword) locally and read the rest online.

  • 8 years ago

    Jojoco, I do the NYT puzzle online too. It was a switch.. but now I quite like it. (I think I pay $5 extra a month for it)

  • 8 years ago

    We get hard copies

    Consumer Reports

    Rolling Stone (free with certain Ticketmaster/Livenation purchases)

    Every Day with Rachael Ray

    I switched my Mustang magazine to digital. I get NYTimes digital through campus because we have a campuswide subscription. WashingtonPost currently has free access for anyone with an .edu email, but they are ending this December 31.

  • 8 years ago
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    Same as terriks and jakabedy; I do most of my reading online. I love getting the New Yorker in the mail, though. Out of all the magazines I used to get, the only other one I miss is Vanity Fair.

  • 8 years ago

    I've scaled back, but I work on a computer all day at my place of employment and I don't want to have to stare at a screen when I get home.

    American Hemrocallis (Daylily) Journal

    Bark

    Buffalo Spree

    NY Conservation

    All get shared or recycled when I am done with them.

  • 8 years ago

    No, not a one unless you count AARP which they send to me even though I never subscribed. It pretty much goes in the recycling unread. I have digital subs to the NYT and The Philadelphia Inquirer. I get the Inquirer on Sunday and as someone mentioned, all the news is old by then, having read it online. I always thought that when I retired I would sit over the paper in the morning, drinking coffee in my jammies and do all the puzzles, but alas, no.

  • 8 years ago

    New York

    The Atlantic

    Consumer Reports


  • 8 years ago

    I didn't include the NYT and Washington Post, both of which I subscribe to online. Really love reading them that way. My newspaper is still paper but the delivery person is pretty erratic and we don't get it at our vacation house so every weekend and frequently during the week I read that online as well. I suspect eventually I'll quit the Miami Herald paper habit completely.

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    I have a Texture app subscription that gives me unlimited access to over 200 magazines for $15/month. Every magazine that I'm interested in is available and then some.

    I can read anytime online and also download as many issues as I want for offline viewing - I can also clip articles to save.

    I have a digital sub to the Washington Post.

    Grand total less than $20/month and no clutter or paper to recycle.

    My husband, on the other hand, insists on having the 2 local papers delivered - $55 month.

    Texture app - 200+ magazines - 14 day free trial

  • 8 years ago

    I forgot that the library system I subscribe to has about 100 digital magazines. I rarely think to check there.

  • 8 years ago

    The Atlantic.

    Smithsonian.

    Until a couple months ago, I got the paper New York Times on weekends.

  • 8 years ago

    My library has a great site for magazines on line. I still love paper mags but I don't get any. Vanity Fair was my last hold out. I can read those over and over and for many years.

  • 8 years ago
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    Southern Living

    Texas Parks and Wildlife

    Sunset

    American Spirit, the DAR magazine-an excellent publication

  • PRO
    8 years ago

    I'm down to two - House Beautiful and the UK version of House & Garden. I intend to cancel HB soon - just nothing to it anymore and the houses featured look like HGTV. I have shoes older than the editor!

    I adore the UK version of House & Garden. It's a wonderful magazine, filled with great things, even recipes. I much prefer it to World of Interiors.

    I haven't gotten hard copy of the daily paper since DH died - he loved the daily ritual of walking up to get the paper at a nearby store. I subscribe to the local paper, the NYTimes and the Wall Street Journal, but all online. Lots less trash!

  • 8 years ago

    I have three magazine subscriptions (paper):

    English Home

    Veranda

    The Cottage Journal

    I discontinued Oprah Magazine this year. There just wasn't enough in it for me.

    And I always want to love Victoria, but it is just all ads.

    I am considering subscribing to Vanity Fair.

    Somehow I started getting InStyle Magazine, but I would never subscribe to it.