RHYS BOWEN: At the beginning of the new year my daughter-in-law suggested we make vision boards. I’ve done this before with her and find them very revealing. This one I made once and keep in my office to look at when I work.
The problem is that to make a good vision board you need a selection of magazines and we don’t get any magazines any more, except for Consumer Reports. And I can hardly make a vision board out of washing machines and mattresses.
I suppose one of the reasons we stopped taking magazines is that we live in two places so the magazines just pile up in California when we are in Arizona. But also it’s so much easier to look at magazines online. I don’t even do that much any more. Magazines seem to be a thing of my past, which is a shame, as I really used to enjoy them.
When I was growing up there were several magazines for children. I got GIRL magazine and another one I can’t remember the name of. They had stories in them about adventurous girls, Patsy of the Circus who was a trapeze star, was my favorite. I played at being Patsy and made my own trapeze, doing stupidly brave things on it.
My brother had Eagle, and Boy’s Own. They had stories like Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future.
Every woman in England got Woman and Woman’s Own, and Woman’s Weekly with their recipes and knitting patterns and romance stories.
When I married and lived in California I took Redbook and Good Housekeeping. We also had National Geographic and Time and Life, oh and Reader’s Digest. I suppose now that things like Facebook make up for them… snippets of information and entertainment. But they don’t really. I miss them. When I’m in England I browse through English women’s magazines but they are different now. Much more celebrity oriented, certainly no knitting patterns.
So, dear Reds, do you still take magazines? Do you miss them?
JENN McKINLAY: I love magazines. Probably, because I spent my teen years in my room reading Seventeen, Teen, Tiger Beat, etc. As a mom, I got all the parenting magazines - my fave was Family Fun - so many great activities. Now I get Prevention, which I got hooked on when I was a librarian for the Scottsdale Hospital and Atomic Ranch because we live in a mid-century ranch and that magazine has gorgeous houses that our humble abode aspires to be.
LUCY BURDETTE: I love magazines too, though like Rhys I stopped ordering them because of my two addresses–impossible to keep up with the mail. My first love was Tiger Beat–I had to work to persuade my parents this would be ok to read. I remember getting MS magazine, maybe Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and Ladies Home Journal which had the column “Can this marriage be saved?” My favorite read! I also took Bon Appetit for a long time, and Cooking Light. Our Key West librarian reported recently that the most popular e-read these days is The New Yorker. I’m going to try that this year!
HALLIE EPHRON: Gosh, I haven’t gotten magazines in years. I miss The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Boston Magazine… but the truth is they just piled up unread. I am SO tempted by the Atlantic Monthly because of their stellar recent reporting, but I’d be signing up for their e-zine, nothing I could cut up for a vision board.
On the newspaper front, I do get the Boston Globe delivered, and try not to think about how much it’s costing me. It’s just one of those luxuries I’ve agreed to give myself.
HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN: Oh, I love magazines! I used to get [MORE] and a very cool women' s magazine the name of which I can never remember but it was not Ms. Does anyone remember? I grew up reading Vogue with my mother, we loved it, and it was where mom taught me the difference between clothes people wore in magazines and what people wore in real life. Now I get The New Yorker, cannot live without it, and New York, and Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic for solidarity. They all come in digital and paper, and I read bits of both depending on what's convenient.
(I have never made a vision board, though…)
JULIA SPENCER-FLEMING: Hank, I had a subscription to [MORE] as well, and I wish there was something like it still out there. Like most politically aware adults in the pre-internet age, Ross and I got TIME and Newsweek, and for a while, he subscribed to Foreign Affairs (pricy!) Of course, we subscribed to Sports Illustrated, and had National Geographic because according to Ross, our kids would grow up illiterate without it. (He was VERY keen on geography!)
I still get HGTV Magazine and House Beautiful in the mail - to me there’s a noticeable different in photos in full-sized print as opposed to on a screen. For text-based periodicals, I have digital-only subscriptions; The Atlantic, New York Magazine and The New Yorker. One advantage of those as opposed to the print editions: you can share articles without clipping them out and mailing them!
DEBORAH CROMBIE: I do still get magazines. Bon Appetit, although I use my digital subscription more than the actual magazines. D Magazine, which my daughter sends me–great for local stuff. We also get print copies of The Economist and The Atlantic. My subscription to The New Yorker, alas, is just digital. We used to take Rolling Stone but finally cancelled it as it had become so expensive.
But my passion is print copies of the magazines that require a trip to my local B&N; the UK edition of Country Living (so good, nothing like the US version,) The English Home, UK House and Garden, UK Homes and Gardens. I don't manage to get them all every month (ouch!) but it's such fun when I can snag an issue or two.
A fun note–I was a dedicated Gourmet subscriber for many years and was heartbroken when it folded. But, now, apparently, Conde Nast has let the copyright expire and some new food writers have taken it over and are publishing a monthly digital edition, for people who really like to cook (rather than get dinner on the table in thirty minutes.) Sounds fun but they don't give you a free issue and I'm not sure I'm interested enough to pay $7 a month.
RHYS BOWEN: It was only as I put this up to be published that I remembered what today is. How dismayed he would be to see what was happening now. But remember what he said: THE ARC OF THE UNIVERSE IS LONG, BUT IT BENDS TOWARD JUSTICE. We'll keep hoping.
We get far fewer magazines than we used to, but "Guideposts" has remained a constant . . . I still get "Astronomy" and "Air and Space" because the print editions are so much better than online . . . .
ReplyDeleteI remember giving up my Rolling Stone subscription in my 20s and thinking, “well, I guess I just won’t be cool anymore.” I still get Civil Engineering and Westways, which come with my memberships (ASCE and AAA), but Los Angeles is the only magazine that I still subscribe to.
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DeleteI used to read magazines (I've worked for three magazine publishing houses), but now reading them is a day of the past. My first magazine was Humpty Dumpty and Highlights. Then I read Redbook, McCalls (remember the cut-out paper dolls), Woman's Day, Reader's Digest and my beloved TV Guide (worked for them 5 years). The only magazine I read now is People and that is online with snippets.
ReplyDeleteTV Guide! I remember reading that cover-to-cover!
DeleteDru - my mom subscribed to all those magazines you mentioned. I loved McCalls and have very fond memories of the cut-out paper dolls!
DeleteOh, I forgot TV guide. Of course we had to have that! And our kids had Highlights and National Geogrsphic Junior
DeleteNow I remember the highlights magazine and the tv guide.
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ReplyDeleteI grew up reading magazines. From weekly reader through Seventeen. I subscribed to Bon Appetit in the early 1970's when it was just a scrawny thing that came 4 times a year, and I saved them all until our move from the condo. They were too much, I had purchased the bindings and the volume was a lot. I tossed them, but still rgret it. I LOVED my Martha magazine and was disappointedwhen that went digital only. We used to get Time and TV Guide and lots of others but stopped years ago.
Recently, the paper edition of the Hartford Courant became so expensive, Irwin switched to digital. It has changed the rhythm of our days and we may need to get a second computer. I'm thinking about it. However...
All of the environmental organizations that I belong to still send real magazines. They are gorgeous. National Parks Foundation, Audubon, National Geographic, Sierra, and probably 10 more arrive quarterly. I have stacks of them and I still get Connecticut Magazine which arrives monthly. I don't read any of them cover to cover, but I do open them and glance through. I know they are costly to manufacture and I am loathe to throw them away. My cleaning lady, who is from Brazil, takes bags of the older magazines home with her when I am finished with them and shares them with her friends. It's a luxury to get real magazines.
It is a luxury ! Sitting with a cup of tea and a good magazine was a perfect escape on the past
DeleteThe only print magazine we get is The New Yorker. And that time of year is coming to renew it, so expensive. But I’ll cough it up.
ReplyDeleteThe first magazine I remember was Jack and Jill. It was all my own and I could hardly wait from one month to the next. My parent took the Reader’s Digest, and I think bought some too, like Time, Life, and Look. In my younger married days I read GH, BBG, and The Saturday Evening Post. I still remember those covers, most excellent.
The times have changed, haven’t they?
Growing up my parents had Time, Newsweek, Life, and National Geographic. We kids had Mad and Highlights for Children, and later I had Seventeen. I remember how exciting Ms was when it came out. Like Hallie, we subscribe to the Boston Globe in paper, and we also get the New Yorker. Totally worth it. My son gets the New Yorker too, and nothing is cuter than watching Ida Rose leaf through an issue, studying the pictures and the cartoons.
ReplyDeleteThey are raising that girl right!
DeleteYou bet! Books are a huge part of her life.
DeleteEdith, I remember LIFE magazine.
DeleteI spend so much time sitting in front of my computer I need a break. And it's too easy to ignore another tab on my computer.
ReplyDeleteI get Real Simple and Better Homes & Gardens and Consumer Reports-- in print. Realized I won't get around to reading a magazine unless sotting it's on the table in front of me. With a pair of glasses.
John subscribes to Consumers Reort for a year or two, drops it the starts again. I’m
DeleteNot sure Joe useful they actually are!
New Yorker and Atlantic for us, Writers Digest for me.
ReplyDeleteIt’s interesting that everyone still gets the Newyorker! I read it in my dentist’s office!
DeleteI had to cancel THE NEW YORKER because I never had the time to read them.
DeleteWe've always gotten magazines. We still get the New Yorker, and, most recently, Atlantic Monthly. For cooking, Cooks Illustrated and Milk Street. All sorts of "magazines" come from organizations we donate to. I learned to cook with Sphere, which turned into Cuisine magazine, and I am forever grateful for that. Then, Gourmet. My mother was a great cook, but didn't teach us. I came to love cooking the cuisines of various countries through these magazines. Yes, the clutter is tremendous in our house. There's also the Sunday Times Magazine. My father-in-law worked for Prevention in the early 1950s, and they still send me his free copy! I've asked them not to, but... There was a time when I got craft magazines, and it's still tempting to pick something up when I'm in a book store or the supermarket. Growing up we, too, had all the things, literally, that Edith mentioned. We now subscribe to Informed Delivery through USPS. It's especially important for us to do that for when we're traveling, so we know if something important has come in. Point being that some days there's no actual mail, but we are told there's another sort of item that there's not picture for. And that's always a magazine!
ReplyDeleteI still love magazines (paper only) and subscribe to several. One from France and The English Country House, The New Yorker, Writers Digest, Country Living, Down East, Yoga Journal, and Trycicle. It’s my Friday night and Sunday morning treat turn on some music and read my magazines with a cup of hot chocolate (or lemonade in the summer). My mother had the same “routine” and I joined her occasionally as a kid/teen. Apparently it made an impression on me and it’s one of my self-care habits for me entire adult life. Nothing will replace my love of real books and magazines (though I do travel with a Kindle - it also always take a “real” book just in case…).
ReplyDeleteHi ~ Paula here ~ Stacia I love the self care plan. I used to receive paper magazines but Kindle Unlimited has free issues of my favorites so economy won. I’ll still get a couple that way as money is, well, you know. So, because of your plan, I’m going to adopt a couple of the same times a week and actually pick up what looks interesting at BN. One of the things I do with KU is see what’s interesting and what’s not. Often I’ll purchase the paper version if it’s interesting enough. But sometimes being frugal is just plan depressing. Thanks for the idea.
DeleteIt is certainly self care and reading all these I’m sorry I’ve stopped! But the content has become slimmer in almost every magazine!
DeleteI used to love magazines like you wouldn't believe. I either subscribed to them or bought them regularly off the newsstand.
ReplyDeleteAs a young kid who was involved in Scouting, I used to get Boy's Life.
I subscribed to Sports Illustrated for more than 25 years. However, when they kept raising the price and their revolving door of seemingly increasing shady new corporate owners got caught using AI to write articles, I stopped renewing my subscription. I read articles on their website now but mostly news articles as opposed to the long form writing that I really loved.
I also used to subscribe to the tourism magazines Ireland of the Welcomes and Scotland the Magazine. I don't anymore.
I used to get Comics Buyers' Guide until that stopped publishing. But I bought that first at the newsstand and then through my local comic shop. Occasionally, I'll buy an issue of Back Issue magazine these days when there's a topic I like.
I bought music magazines like Classic Rock and Metal Edge, plus others on occasion. But I don't anymore.
Way back in the day, when they still pretended that wrestling was real (I was a teenager), I used to buy a bunch of wrestling magazines like Pro Wrestling Illustrated or Inside Wrestling.
These days the only magazine I buy is Ellery Queen Mystery magazine or the Alfred Hitchcock magazine. But only when an author I like has a short story piece in it.
The grocery store still has a magazine rack but it's like mainstream places that carry music still, they only get the big titles. There's a magazine shop in Swansea, MA called Newsbreak and that's where I used to go to get all the magazines I'd buy in person. Then they opened a 2nd location that I went to because it was closer. But that location ended up being closed thanks to COVID. The reason I know that is because my friend's record shop, Purchase Street Records, is now located in the spot.
Magazines will always be around in some form or another, but it is definitely becoming a smaller market when so much of the content is online these days. Throw in the cost of the print edition and it is no wonder people aren't buying them anywhere near as much as they used to.
I’d forgotten Alfred Hitchcock, Jay. Of course I took that for several years. ( and wrote quite a few stories for it too)
DeleteI grew up with many magazines that folks have mentioned, and we used to subscribe to a number, also. We still get The NYer and The Atlantic (and the NYT; we let the WaPo go in 2025 and subscribed to the Guardian instead) but all of these are digital. I am bombarded by news and the sight of growing stacks of glossy magazines sitting unread started to make me crazy. I miss the culture that made reading magazines such a pleasure but I do not think it is coming back. (It may still exist for children. I bought National Geographic For Kids for our 6-year-old grandson.)
ReplyDeleteOne magazine that was always in our house when I was growing up was American Heritage, the U.S. history magazine. When my father died in 1990 my mother gave me a subscription to remind me of him (history was a love we shared). The magazine is now a struggling digital publication. Seeing something on Facebook a couple of years ago, I signed up to receive their emails, and then one day realized I had been deleting them unread because I didn't recognize the name of the sender (it was the name of the editor). Six months ago I wrote to this gentleman and suggested they change their email name to the name of the publication, instead, so more would open their communications. Last week he replied. He told me that a marketing expert had told them to use a personal name as the sender. He apologized for taking so long to reply and explained that in its heyday, American Heritage had employed 300 people. Now it has one, plus some loyal volunteers! Two days later, I received the monthly email from the magazine. The sender was American Heritage. I sent them a small check for a subscription. (Selden)
Magazines I used to get included UTNE Reader, Mother Jones, Time. Now I have a digital subscription to the Atlantic. When I first subscribed, I felt guilty about not going through each monthly issue. I left that behind and am okay with reading their daily email and articles that arouse my interest. It's very interesting the cast of former Washington Post-ers who are now at the Atlantic, including trivia king Drew Goins and satire queen Alexandra Petri. Mostly I have too many Substack subscriptions. The Contrarian has been a life-line this past year.
ReplyDeleteRhys--HCR reminded us that MLK said he would choose to be born in the time he was in, because when it is darkest, you can see the stars. I have to say I see many stars these days as I see people standing peacefully for justice.
UTNE Reader--I loved that magazine!
DeleteAmen to that, Gillian. So many good people risking abuse by standing up for justice.
DeleteYes, Rhys, May the arc of the universe bend ever closer, and more quickly to justice !
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely trip down memory lane this morning! My brother and I got Children’s Highlights and National Geographic; my Mom had Time and Reader’s Digest. I lived at home after college for 2 years and Mom and I got Mother Jones, MS., The New Yorker, The Whole Earth Catalog, Time, and maybe Good Housekeeping. On Friday nights that I was home we’d buy groceries and surreptitiously buy Cosmopolitan and People Magazines. Over the years my husband and I have had MS., More, U.S. News and World Report, The New Yorker, Food and Wine, Gourmet, Bon Appétit, Yankee Magazine, The Atlantic… Now it’s just The New Yorker, Yankee Magazine, and the print Boston Globe and Financial Times. I don’t subscribe but get daily emails from Southern Living and scan through some of the articles. I really don’t like reading online.
I hadn't heard that quote Gillian. What a powerful statement. Martin Luther King Jr. was a brilliant voice for justice (also sanity) and we need another like him.
ReplyDeleteI remember Highlights growing up. I spent hours on the living room floor with National Geographic and "traveling" to places and people I never knew existed. I love magazines and it is a shame they are few and far between now but part of the problem is they are so outlandishly expensive. I like the UK magazines Debs mentioned and will occasionally buy some.
We get a lot of mags my husband likes like Naval Proceedings, a national stamp collectors magazine, and my favorite is his college alumni weekly (now a monthly).
I occasionally will spend time going thru mags at the library.
I’m afraid if we had another like MLK today he’d be shot sooner by the racial crazies. Or dragged away by ICE
DeleteNot many magazines at our house growing up, but as an adult my favorites were Poets&Writers, Tricycle, Scientific American, Nature, National Geographic, and UTNE Reader, as well as Bon Appetit. I don't have any subscriptions nowadays--neither print nor digital, but can access many magazines through the LIBBY app. I don't care for reading on my phone, however. There's just something about holding a magazine in your hands and flipping through the pages to find the rest of an article. I grumble often about the lack of imagination in the current selection of magazines at our local library, but I'm guessing it has to do with cost.
ReplyDeleteI forgot about Scientific American - I subscribed to that for a while.
DeleteTricycle? I'll have to check that one out ! The Smithsonian is another magazine we used to get and was so interesting.
DeleteI forgot! My husband has subscribed to Scientific American since he was a teenager! We still get it in the mail each month. He recently complained to them because the articles no longer (sometimes) seem to be written by the scientists.
DeleteIsn’t the magazine content more related to the politics of very red Ohio?
DeleteI loved magazines back in the day but don't subscribe to any these days. One of the first ways my husband won my heart was when he ordered me a subscription to Sports Illustrated after hearing that my first husband had mocked me for wanting it.
ReplyDeleteThis isn't really my story, but my childhood best friend's: When she graduated from Northwestern circa 1980 and shared an apartment with several roommates, they subscribed to several higher end, sophisticated magazines. But she said they used to laugh together that when friends stopped by the only one they ever picked up to leaf through was People.
Ahh Susan, you got a good guy the second time around.
DeleteReading all the comments makes me realize how many magazines I have read or subscribed to through the years. SO many. Do you think it had anything to do with the junk mail we used to get ALL THE TIME, trying to sell us magazines?
ReplyDeleteWe read Highlights at the doctor's office, and both sets of grandparents read Readers' Digest, so you could always find me in grandpa's chair, with my nose buried in one. For the five years my aunt and uncle lived in rural Argentina, 1960-1965, we lived in their house. My two older male cousins were both Scouts, and my aunt had been a troop leader, so they had a stack of Boy's Life Magazines that I read cover to cover through those years. (You never know when you might need to light a fire without a match, or make a hitch knot, you see.) Uncle Red left all sorts of DIY handyman mags, and the boys--dear, lovely Chuck & Garry--left a chest-high stack of comic books, and the best trove of all: years' worth of Mad Magazine.
My mother took Redbook and McCall's (like Dru, I loved the Betsy McCall paper dolls on the back). On my own, I bought both mystery magazines, Family Circle and Woman's Day for the crafts, and later took Ingenue (my all-time favorite), Glamour, and Seventeen. Later, after my divorce, I read Cosmo, Glamour, Discover, and Psychology Today. Once or twice I picked up a copy of Playgirl, including the first issue. I still have it somewhere. Burt Reynolds in all his furry glory, pre manscaping. For my daughter, Ranger Rick; when I started dating Steve we discovered they had a lot of his photos.
Later, Better Homes & Gardens, Organic Gardening, Writer's Digest, and then SewNews and Threads Magazines. The girls got American Girl Magazine for a few years, then another mag that was skewed towards girls, with lots of craft and other projects. Steve started getting The New Yorker after a stay at a friend's house that came with their subscription, and we still take it. We got Time and/or Newsweek for decades, and National Geographic. Plus, copies of every magazine Steve ever sold a photo to. I took Gourmet for a couple of years, too, and also regret getting rid of them.
Online, I subscribe to Atlantic, Guardian, NYT, Mother Jones, The Independent, and Threads again. Steve gets the Grays Sporting Journal as an annual gift from a friend, and as a benefit of our Kentucky energy coop, we get Kentucky Living. They have interesting articles, recipes, and lists of things to do in the state, by region.
If you are in or near Cincinnati, I highly recommend the current Mad Magazine exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum. It takes up two galleries, and is incredible. Lots of original artwork, and several interactive exhibits.
DeleteOrganic Gardening, of course! How could I forget that subscription?
DeleteI also miss magazines with craft projects, Karen. Family Circle! Does nobody do crafts any more? But Playgirl! I didn’t know the naughty side of you!!!
DeleteOrganic Gardening! I guess that's what my FIL was involved with (in part) when he worked for Rodale in the 1950s. On the basis of that connection, I think, my sister got a job working at Rodale in the early 1970s (my husband was born in Allentown, when his father was at Rodale; I grew up in Easton, quite nearby).
DeleteDid anyone get the Sunset magazine?
DeleteOh, how I had to work to convince my mother to let me read Tiger Beat. But I don't remember magazines being a big part of our home. Newspapers, yes. Books, of course. But not magazines for whatever reason. I tended to read them in doctor's offices, etc. Still do.
ReplyDeleteWhen my daughter was in high school she had a subscription to Vogue. The piles are still in the basement of our other house, waiting for her to take them.
That’s the big problem with magazines. I’ll find time to read that properly or that’s too interesting to throw away and then they pile up!
DeleteThe only magazines that I get are the alumni ones from college and law school. At some point in 1980s subscriptions were just too expensive and I wasn’t reading much in them anyway. Think that the New Yorker was the last one to go. Elisabeth
ReplyDeleteI miss magazines! I have an April 1969 copy of Seventeen - did you know they used to publish fiction? I'm not in this issue, but sales to Seventeen were my first - I was in high school at the time. I resubscribed in 2011 because I was writing a teen character and had no idea what that meant in 2011 - Okay, the mag has changed and not to be a prude, it had some columns that would not have worked in the 1960s! I read Southern Living and Bon Appetit on line, and as for Gourmet. I miss that mag. I still have their January 1991 50th anniversary magazine. It's a treasure.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many of us wrote for magazines? I think the only magazine I was published in what Alfred Hitchcock
DeleteI've had a handful of stories in both AHMM and EQMM, but I wouldn't call it "writing for" them, since the acceptances are irregular.
DeleteI sent quite a few shorts to Woman's World, but nothing sold. It was a good starting market.
DeleteWhat an interesting topic! We subscribed to many magazines until we began traveling full-time in the early 2000s. Sports Illustrated and National Geographic were favorites. I subscribed to both Library Journal and Publisher's Weekly to read book reviews. Still get Family Tree Magazine and the National Genealogic Society's magazines. Online I get The Atlantic as well as TV Guide, the Milwaukee Journal and our local newspaper which is published 3x a week. Annette
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little, my aunt paid for magazine subscriptions for my sister and me. Mine was some Disney comic book and my sister’s was Calling All Girls. I read Tiger Beat as a “tween” (though that term hadn’t been invented/wasn’t used back then), but never had a subscription. My parents had subscriptions to LHJ (Mom), Sports Illustrated and Aviation Week & Space Technology (Dad who flew for the airlines). I don’t remember having any magazine subscriptions when I was single, though I bought People a lot. When my husband and I were dating, he gave me my first subscription to People; I finally let it lapse a couple of years ago. Along the way I have had subscriptions to Smithsonian magazine, Sunset, Glamour, Time, Newsweek, TV Guide and the Utne Reader. Now my husband gets the digital version of Vanity Fair and we get the AARP magazine, our alumni magazine and whatever magazine the charities we donate to send us.
ReplyDeleteAnd Karen, the one and only time I bought a Playgirl magazine was my senior year of high school when I went on a school organized trip to NY and Washington, DC. I bought it at some drug store when we were traveling on a bus between the two cities. It got passed around by the girls and grabbed by the boys, trying to see what we girls were giggling about. By the end of the trip it was pretty tattered! — Pat S
I forgot about Scientific American and Smithsonian, both of which I took for years. And Nat Geo!!!
ReplyDeleteWe still get the Smithsonian every few months in the mail. Easier with monthly magazines than the weekly magazines!
DeleteGrowing up, I remember the movie magazines then Teen Beat? Tiger beat? Seventeen magazines. The movie magazines don’t seem to exist anymore.
ReplyDeleteThere were National Geographic, Ms., ladies home journal, cosmo and redbook magazines.
Loved the MYSTERY SCENE magazine. Maybe it’s only digital now? For a short time in the 1990s, I got the GEORGE magazine then after JFK junior died, the magazine ceased publishing.
These days I only read the consumer reports. Other magazines can be borrowed from the public library via the Libby app. We do not have the space for more magazines. I’m still de-cluttering and getting rid of many magazines.
My grandparents gave us an annual subscription to National Geographic for years and years. I used to read Good Housekeeping in my grandmother's living room all the time. We used to have Sunset magazine delivered but that ended in the 1990s. I used to subscribe to a crocheting magazine which was great to pattern ideas that I never made.
ReplyDeleteBack from the MLK parade. I used to get lots of magazines. Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, Nat'l Geographic, Texas Monthly, Texas Highways, Newsweek, Southern Living, Prevention, Cosmo, Readers Digest. The first three were great for short stories and book excerpts. But they changed. Now I'm getting no magazines. I finally let my last subscription die.
ReplyDeleteI forgot the only print magazine I get is AARP
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