magazines..worth it or not?

**Sara Noel** · 09-10-2009, 02:56 PM

Which magazine(s) are worth the subscription and why? And do you keep them?

**Teresa T** · 09-10-2009, 03:04 PM

I think magazine subscriptions can be worth the money. Magazines can be specific to a certain interest or ones life. They are fun to get in the mail and some relaxing time reading them. I subscribe to 2 magazines currently and would say they are worth it.

I also admit to buying some of those celebrity magazines at the check out at times. Pure mindless reading and something I need now and then.

**fixer** · 09-10-2009, 03:07 PM

Subscriptions are my main indulgence. I have gotten the Wall Street Journal and Countryside for years. I have learned much from both. I also get Forbes, Hobby Farms, Popular Mechanics and Playboy (for the stimulating articles). I have often wondered what marketers think of me by seeing what I read.

**Sara Noel** · 09-10-2009, 03:15 PM

Do you keep them?

**savvy_sniper** · 09-10-2009, 03:29 PM

I subscribed to Country Living for years. Then it seemed like they were just recycling articles so I stopped. I saved them for a long time and then put them in the recycling bin. I have a subscription to Bead & Button magazine because I bead. I keep them for reference purposes.

I have received subscriptions to magazines as gifts. But they were never anything that I was really interested in. I thumbed through them, pulled the address label off and gave them to my dentist office - Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal and such.

Hubby does some Woodworking; so he subscribes to a woodworking magazine. He keeps them for reference purposes.

**LeeCee** · 09-10-2009, 03:35 PM

I don't think it's worth the money. now a days there's hardly any articles only tons of advertisement

**fixer** · 09-10-2009, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by Sara Noel

Do you keep them?

I used to before it got out of hand. They were taking up way too much space for the amount I referred to them. Now, I will cut out an interesting article and file it. I give the old Playboys to my garbage man. In return, he takes whatever I put out.

**nuisance26** · 09-10-2009, 04:01 PM

~I don't think I've ever had a full price subscription so none of them must be worth it to me.

Right now I get National Geographic Adventure, "" Traveler, Better Homes and Gardens and Simple Living. I got all these on a special $2 a year for each magazine.
Two years ago I got a similar deal and got Disney's Family Fun. That was a great magazine! I kept all of them.
My mom gave me stacks of her old Cooking Light magazines and I absolutely love them. Every recipe I make from them is just fabulous!
So to sum up I'd *consider* paying full price subscription rates for Cooking Light(if I didn't have 35 of them here already)and Family Fun magazine(if my kids were a bit older).
I also have some Cottage Living, South Jersey Magazine, This Old House and Taste of Home's in my magazine collection. I reread them often!~

**savvy_sniper** · 09-10-2009, 04:02 PM

That works!

Originally Posted by fixer

I give the old Playboys to my garbage man. In return, he takes whatever I put out.

**Sara Noel** · 09-10-2009, 04:08 PM

I liked my free subscription to family fun, too.

**JanieD** · 09-10-2009, 05:17 PM

I love magazines, but I'm often disappointed when I subscribe to them. Loved Cottage Living when I subscribed back in 2006. Considered subscribing again last year after I discovered the others weren't as good, but they stopped publishing it. I tried Country Home & Southern Living in 2008. Didn't renew. Current subscriptions that I won't renew are Country Living & Redbook (not what they use to be). May continue my Coastal Living subscription since I'm enjoying it, but I'm not sure I want to pay the "renewal" rate. Considering Better Homes & Gardens for 2009.

I often keep my favorite issues & recycle the others.

**Grainlady** · 09-10-2009, 05:28 PM

I purchase and donate a magazine subscription to the Public Library each year (or several years when I get a bargain price for multiple years) so that MANY folks can enjoy it.

I either read magazines at the library or on-line. I stopped all subscriptions years ago because I could no longer justify the expense and waste. We even reduced our newspaper subscription to Sunday only (mainly for the coupons), and read it on-line. It was amazing how much paper we were stuffing into the recycling box.

**madhen** · 09-10-2009, 08:46 PM

I am a big fan of Countryside, and I do keep back issues for a year or so back. Then I cut out articles that I think I may want as reference and keep those.

I get some mags free, and I find them entertaining but wouldn't spend money on them. Right now, it is Prevention and Woman's Day and a couple of trade mags from PIJAC.

I do pay for The Strand, Creative Knitting, Beadworks. Love the stories in the first and the inspiration I get from the others.

More for reference than for entertainment, I also get Hobby Farms, Backyard Poultry, and Equus.

**Thevail** · 09-10-2009, 08:54 PM

All my friends bring me their Coca-Cola points, so I get all my magazines for free! I keep popular mechanix and Cook's, otherwise I donate them to my doctor's office or my dentist, or even a local coffee shop.

**Palooka** · 09-10-2009, 09:19 PM

I subscribed to Shape and Fitness magazine for years when I was in the workout groove. I kept them all and the later I just hated all that piled up.

The only one I subscribe to now is Vegetarian Times and it's only nine per year and I just did this recently. I am sure I will keep them for the recipes. If not, I will cut them out and put them in a photo album for another cookbook. I just can't deal with clutter but I do find a few magazines used as decorations in the home is cozy.