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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2019 14:17:29 GMT
We cancelled our paper when it became obvious we weren't reading it and I wasn't really benefiting from the Sunday paper coupons anymore. The only magazine subscription I still have is US Magazine and even that is starting to pile up unread. Do you still subscribe to any publications?
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milocat
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Post by milocat on Sept 9, 2019 14:25:46 GMT
We get our small town weekly newspaper. It just has local stuff, often the schools will have a column, the seniors lodge also, they have be writing a history column lately anything to try and fill it up.
Our 2 towns and 3 municipalities actually pay for the subscriptions for everyone. They each get a half or full page ad for themselves and it's easier then putting box stuffers or mailers out there a few times a year when they have news they need to get out.
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Post by monklady123 on Sept 9, 2019 14:29:13 GMT
We have a subscription to our local paper, which is the Washington Post. We do digital during the week and get the actual newspaper on Saturday and Sunday. They also give us a paper copy of special editions. This has worked out well for us because now my husband is managing to read through the entire Sunday paper... he reads through one section every day with his breakfast, whereas before when we were getting an actual paper every day he hardly finished all of anything.
I read online, but I'm sure he doesn't. He ends up looking at the daily papers at work, mostly the Washington Post and the New York Times, but also the international papers such as Le Monde and The Guardian, etc.
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Post by katlady on Sept 9, 2019 14:35:57 GMT
Yes, I still have subscriptions to a couple of magazines. We no longer get the newspaper though.
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Post by compeateropeator on Sept 9, 2019 14:37:43 GMT
Yes, I still get some. I get the Sunday edition of my local paper. I have a subscription (published twice a week) to my hometown paper. It is from where I grew up, where my parents still live, and where I still have a lot of friends and family. I am only an hour away so it still is really a local paper, it is just in another county. I also have a couple of magazine subscriptions. My father is a big magazine person so both are gifts from him. I enjoy them. ETA - I also get two papers from my town/area. They are free and delivered through the mail to everyone. No signing up for them they just come. I like reading them, including the police report of calls. It is interesting and kind of keeps me up on what is going on.
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Post by workingclassdog on Sept 9, 2019 14:43:46 GMT
I couldn't even guess when the last time I even read a newspaper. Which is sad because I loved to. Our best newspaper for Denver went out of business years ago and I never did like the competing paper.
I have one magazine subscription to Country Living. I like flipping through that.
I totally forgot, DH and I were in a bookstore the other day (2nd & Charles) and they do a free subscription up to three magazines as long as you cancel within the 3 months. I always turn it down but silly him, signed up for three of them and they are NOTHING that he even reads.. So now they are just showing up and piling up... Rolling Stone, Time and Entertainment. He's out on the road traveling for six weeks at a time. So now I guess I will stockpile them and see if he wants them. OYE.
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wellway
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Post by wellway on Sept 9, 2019 14:44:10 GMT
No.
We gave up newspapers years ago because of the amount of paper. The Sunday paper was beginning to weight the same as a small brick.
Here, (UK) magazines are comparable in price to a paperback. The magazines themselves carry so many adverts it drives me nuts. So if I want craft inspiration I'll buy a book or search the internet. The magazines, to me, offer little value for money.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2019 14:53:26 GMT
I went all digital a few years ago - no clutter and no regrets. It's old news by the time it's printed.
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Post by gar on Sept 9, 2019 14:54:31 GMT
I haven’t for ages but recently signed up for a subscription to Delicious magazine. I don’t like reading them digitally.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2019 14:58:47 GMT
I had a subscription to Readly but they removed all my favourite craft magazines so I cancelled. I haven't bought a paper newspaper or magazine for ages. We get a free copy of the Catholic newspaper pushed through our letterbox every month but it goes straight in the recycling bin.
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Post by freebird on Sept 9, 2019 15:02:39 GMT
I have several digital magazine subscriptions on my kindle. I like this better as I can keep them all forever and revisit later. I don't always read them right away but will download them for plane/car trip. I don't think I've EVER had a newspaper subscription.
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Post by quinlove on Sept 9, 2019 15:05:22 GMT
Sadly, no. I used to love reading my local newspaper. Now I am addicted to my USAToday app. I can read highlights of my local newspaper from there. Also, my hometown paper from Michigan is on that app too. I’ve never been one to read magazines much. Only in doctor office. 😊
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2019 15:09:39 GMT
No.
Magazines sell your name and then your mailbox is flooding with junk mail.
I would actually do great harm to anyone who gave me a subscription to anything.
Ps: I LOVE magazines, just not enough to have subscriptions to any of the them.
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Post by *KAS* on Sept 9, 2019 15:15:54 GMT
No. I used to get a ton of magazines but they got to be really expensive, and I didn't have time to read them half the time. Let all of them expire, and don't miss them at all.
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Post by giatocj on Sept 9, 2019 15:16:46 GMT
No newspapers, but I still get Yankee Magazine. That's the only actual print thing we get...except our AARP ones
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Sept 9, 2019 15:18:26 GMT
No, I stopped getting the newspaper a long time ago and many years ago I banned all magazines from my house. I like them in theory but I would never read them!
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Post by pjaye on Sept 9, 2019 15:23:57 GMT
I used to read quite a few magazines regularly, then I swapped a few of them to digital for a year or so...now I no longer subscribe to any of them. I get all my news and gossip online.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Sept 9, 2019 15:28:49 GMT
I subscribed to the local paper for years. Originally had the daily paper when we lived in the city, then dropped down to Wed-Sun before we moved, then down to just Sunday, then down to just Sunday during the fall-winter when we were home on weekends, and then last year I finally unsubbed all the way because I just wasn’t reading them. The only reason I kept getting it at all was for the local store print ads, but now I can look at those online from wherever I am.
I don’t like reading the actual articles online because of the obnoxious way the local paper places the ads. It would be one thing if they would have an ad placed BETWEEN articles, but they will put a pop up ad between every 1-2 pages of text and that’s annoying when you have to flip past three full screen ads just to read one stupid article. I feel kind of bad not supporting the local newspaper but I just wasn’t reading it and it got really expensive for what it is.
I don’t get any magazines anymore since they stopped printing the scrapbooking magazines. I used to like reading those and still have a bunch of old ones that I liked hoarded up in my basement.
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amom23
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Post by amom23 on Sept 9, 2019 15:31:51 GMT
We still get our small local 1x week printed paper.
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Post by disneypal on Sept 9, 2019 15:33:20 GMT
No magazine subscriptions, but I do have a newspaper subscription. I get the daily paper digitally but the Sunday paper is still hand delivered.
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Post by Rhondito on Sept 9, 2019 15:46:42 GMT
I used to get probably 15 magazines each month but I gave those up years ago when I just didn't have time to read them all. Now I'm down to TVGuide only, which I've read since I was a kid. No newspaper subscription anymore either.
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Post by just PEAchy on Sept 9, 2019 15:54:28 GMT
We no longer do. I only read magazines now at the doctors office or hair stylist . I was just talking to someone about how I miss reading the Sunday paper. We stopped getting it when we moved to a small town & the paper came from a city 45 miles away & we wouldn’t get it until Monday. It just wasn’t the same. We now live near Indy & sometimes I think about starting up again.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Sept 9, 2019 15:56:45 GMT
Still get the newspaper because we like to read the sports section while eating our breakfast. I'm letting go of Good Housekeeping after about 30 years of subscribing. The only other one I have and will keep is Consumer Reports.
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Post by Bridget in MD on Sept 9, 2019 15:57:18 GMT
I still get a subscription to People Magazine. I just love reading it (and the app is not the same!).
We get a local newspaper that comes out on Wed/Fri - I get that for local news.
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Post by hutchfan on Sept 9, 2019 16:06:25 GMT
I subscribe to Primitive Place magazine. I buy Country Sampler when they come out.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2019 16:14:10 GMT
I don't read the newspaper. Most news is online, anyway. I do have 5 subscriptions: Taste of Home, All Recipes, Taste of the South, Cooking with Paula Deen, and Southern Lady.
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Post by ddly on Sept 9, 2019 16:23:16 GMT
I get several magazines. I don't like them digital. I did stop getting the newspaper and don't mind reading that digitally.
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Post by ntsf on Sept 9, 2019 16:23:17 GMT
we get the local paper, my dad gives me national geographic and nutrition action newsletter, I get threads, dh got practical sailor. (though we are selling the boat asap), and we also read aarp, the week and the economist. we are big readers and we pass them on to our kids.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Sept 9, 2019 16:31:24 GMT
I dropped the paper 10 years ago. For several years after that I would pick up the Sunday paper, but haven’t done that in 3-4 years now. We always had multiple magazine subscriptions, but started going digital 10 years ago. First I had certain subscriptions through Zinio because we were overseas. Then when Next (later Texture) came out I started dropping the rest of my magazine subscriptions. I’ve subscribed to Readly occasionally, but not on a regular basis. Now that Texture is no more and I am stuck with Apple News+. I don’t love it, but haven’t found a better option for a comparable price. I find I am reading less magazines even with the digital versions now. So many advertisements!
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Post by teacherlisa on Sept 9, 2019 16:31:43 GMT
No newspaper subscriptions. I live in a rural area w/o delivery...sometimes I pick up a copy if I am at the store, but normally I don't.
I love magazines. I used to get them in print...then switched to digital on my kindle and I loved that even more.
Recently I got an ipad, and subscribed to apple news plus and cancelled my magazine subscriptions because I can read them there. There is a fee (9.99/mo) for Apple News plus, but it is available for family sharing and has a lot of magazines I like to read but did not necessarily want to pay for. I am saving money after cancelling my subs.
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