Magazines

[Lanolin]

Do you read magazines? If so, which ones? Do you buy them regularly, subscribe, or only read them in dentist waiting rooms?

What do you read them for and do you keep them or pass them along/recycle them?

 

[Aussie52]

Yes. 'Creation', from Creation Ministries International. I confess to being a YEC.

 

[Lanolin]

Ok, well...I refuse to read Watchtower magazines.
But other magazines I will give a try.

I was at the library today and figured I would catch up on the New Zealand Women's Weekly, as well as the Australian Women's Weekly (New Zealand edition).

In Australia, do they have New Zealand Womens' Weekly, (Australian Edition)?

And why is it, the Australian Women's Weekly, comes out once a month, while the New Zealand Women's Weekly comes out every week?

Shouldn't the Australian Women's Weekly, be called the Australian Women's Monthly??

 

[Aussie52]

Ok, well...I refuse to read Watchtower magazines.
But other magazines I will give a try.

I was at the library today and figured I would catch up on the New Zealand Women's Weekly, as well as the Australian Women's Weekly (New Zealand edition).

In Australia, do they have New Zealand Womens' Weekly, (Australian Edition)?

And why is it, the Australian Women's Weekly, comes out once a month, while the New Zealand Women's Weekly comes out every week?

Shouldn't the Australian Women's Weekly, be called the Australian Women's Monthly??

Women's Weekly used to come out every week, then it changed to monthly, but they kept the name.

 

[Lanolin]

Women's Weekly used to come out every week, then it changed to monthly, but they kept the name.

ah ok

Did the old Australian Women's Weekly have knitting patterns too?
I remember the old NZ ones did as my mum kept some of them.

We also have Woman's Day in NZ..that does not come out daily, but weekly...so, confusage.

There is also New Idea.

Of the four, Australian Women's Weekly had the best recipes, home hints, and more indepth articles. Womans Day and New Idea had the trash paparazzi photos. And the rankings of celebrity red carpet gowns out of 10. They had the most gossip of any magazine I'd ever seen, coming from 'sources', and dubious advice columns. A lot of their headlines were racy, made up, or scurrilous.

Mere Male and Over the Teacups, was another feature of the Weeklies and the articles and spreads in these were more serious and indepth. Some of the photos were staged, but they were tasteful.

The most outrageous women's rag though, featuring ordinary non-celeb people, was and is That's Life. This one is the one that has the 'I had my sister's baby' or 'My husband was a killer' or 'I ate my child's ashes' type unbelievable true stories that they paid readers cash for. No lie!

 

[Lanolin]

Yes. 'Creation', from Creation Ministries International. I confess to being a YEC.

Do you ever read magazine devotionals? I.e The Word for Today, Daily Bread...

Or the Grapevine? The Grapevine was a weird tiny magazine written by a one-man band. It used to be great, sort of like a Christian Reader's Digest, but it has recently just gone a bit baby boomish. I.e the articles are written by rich, retired man and seem to have no relevance at all to the struggles ordinary people face. Plus he blatantly asks readers for money, almost like begging to keep the magazine going.

I understand it costs money to print these things. But when you read that for the umpteenth time, it all just becomes noise.

 

[Seeker47]

...any magazine that has recipes!

 

[SoulFaith]

The only magazine I buy occasionally is Laine, a magazine for knitters. I used to subscribe to Ply and Spin Off, but the subscription costs to Finland eventually became too expensive, so I cancelled them.

Other than that, I don't really subscribe to any magazines. I'm not much of a magazine person. If there's a daily newspaper lying on a table somewhere, I'll happily flip through it and read the headlines, but I don't want one delivered to my home because I know I wouldn't actually read it.

I usually keep my issues of Laine. They're beautiful magazines and I like going back to them for knitting patterns and inspiration.

 

[seoulsearch]

Do you read magazines? If so, which ones? Do you buy them regularly, subscribe, or only read them in dentist waiting rooms?

What do you read them for and do you keep them or pass them along/recycle them?

I love magazines!!

They are my preferred form of reading material.

Back in the day, I used to wait for specials, such as subscribing for 2 years for $20. Now days, they all insist on having you pay by credit card, which signs you up for an everlasting renewal program, charging your card every year unless you go through a big hassle to get your subscription canceled.

It's sad that so many magazines I used to love are no longer in print, and the ones that do are so thin and infrequent (many have changed from monthly to bi-monthly and quarterly,) that it's just not worth the subscription money.

Some of the magazines used to have amazing mini photo albums of beautiful autumn and Christmas decorating and craft ideas -- if I had known magazines were going extinct, I would have saved them.

The ones that have survived still have holiday editions, but they're nothing like back in the day.

 

[Lanolin]

I used to subscribe to NZ Gardener, and I also had Kiwi Gardener, but eventually had to stop because I had too many, and I didn't want to chuck them away, and every month, it will just kind of repeat the kind of tasks you'd need to do in the previous years month, so I felt like I didn't want to keep going with it.

I also, when working at the bookshop, was able to get them for free when they were close to expiry and they had spare copies. I now have stacks and stacks of them!

I have given many away as its good information especially for beginner gardeners. Such a wealth of knowledge from seasoned gardeners.

 

[CarriePie]

I read Acts & Facts, Creation, and Answers (all Biblical Creation magazines).
And I also read The Voice of the Martyrs.

I used to read more magazines, but some of the ones I used to read are no longer in print or available at all. I do more reading online these days.

 

[Lanolin]

I used to read New Zealand Baptist magazine, there were free copies in church, but they went online and now I don't read it anymore.

Its silly that they no longer publish in print, plus they did away with the Letters column, which was probably the most important part of the magazine. I think that open letters to churches are valuable exhortation and edification.

It got to be about pastors/church leaders promoting their own agendas instead of what ordinary church people were doing in their congregations. I guess thats the difference between clergy and laity, a term nobody really uses anymore.

 

[Mem]

While getting my business degree, I was given a subscription to Business Week, I think it was, I didn't read them but laid them out so that I'd look like I was 'in the loop.' But if I was given a choice of free subscriptions, it would take me some time in pinning down any certain interest in particular. I wished I would have kept the Cricket subscriptions my auntie used to purchase for me every birthday. I did for a quite a while, but they've since been thrown out during all the hustle of 'growing up.'

 

[Lanolin]

Was Cricket the one with stories for children?
I remember a similar US one called 'Jabberwocky' or was it 'Dynamite'
I also loved MAD magazine, especially the fold-outs.

 

[Mem]

Was Cricket the one with stories for children?
I remember a similar US one called 'Jabberwocky' or was it 'Dynamite'
I also loved MAD magazine, especially the fold-outs.

Yes. Along with the stories for children, the illustrations in Cricket were as much the reason that my aunt chose that particular subscription especially for me. Together with the stories, it seemed a bit more 'fantastical' than the others. I loved MAD also for the same reason, that illustration style was easier for me to duplicate and practice my skills.

 

[seoulsearch]

I don't know if this one is still around, but I used to love paging through it at the doctor's when I was a kid.

My parents didn't subscribe to any magazines, so seeing them in any waiting room was a treat!

And look @Lanolin, this one even has a giraffe!

 

[Bible_Locket]

Ok, well...I refuse to read Watchtower magazines.
But other magazines I will give a try.

I was at the library today and figured I would catch up on the New Zealand Women's Weekly, as well as the Australian Women's Weekly (New Zealand edition).

In Australia, do they have New Zealand Womens' Weekly, (Australian Edition)?

And why is it, the Australian Women's Weekly, comes out once a month, while the New Zealand Women's Weekly comes out every week?

Shouldn't the Australian Women's Weekly, be called the Australian Women's Monthly??

Oh,that's bad punning,bad,bad.

 

[Bible_Locket]

I don't know if this one is still around, but I used to love paging through it at the doctor's when I was a kid.

My parents didn't subscribe to any magazines, so seeing them in any waiting room was a treat!

And look @Lanolin, this one even has a giraffe!

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Is that still published? That issue is 2016.

 

[seoulsearch]

Is that still published? That issue is 2016.

I have no idea.

I haven't seen it since I was a kid, and I only saw it in doctor's and dentist's offices.




This one says 2024, so maybe they're still around?

 

[Lanolin]

My family used to subscribe to the Listener, as it had the tv listings. In the olden days before tv, the only entertainment was radio, so that's why it was called the Listener, not the Viewer.

Anyway it came out every week and as far as I know is still being published, but its become a very lefty, scaremongering, baby booming anxiety ridden current affairs magazine. I'm like...I got enough to worry about without being assaulted by what could happen if the economy collapses etc. Plus we pretty much stopped watching regular tv when it all went digital/streaming anyway so it didn't matter what time the programs were on.

My neighbour subscribes to the TV Guide, which has only articles related to whats on TV, like the actual shows, and readers write in with their favourites and what the stars are up to, and what programs are airing and what they think will happen next. Its a mini-pub and also has puzzles and quizzes. I think if I were a tv junkie, and wanted something fun to read, and not get my listings from the newspaper, or other magazines, I'd just buy that one.