# To what magazines do you subscribe? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 10, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024 "2008-01-10T20:29:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/41 "2008-01-10T23:21:57Z")
My goodness, no-one has mentioned my favorite: **The Fortean Times** We also now get : **New Scientist** And have long gotten: **Yes magazine Know Magazine** ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/42 "2008-01-10T23:37:20Z")
I’m cutting back. I’ve lopped off: Practical Sailor Organic Gardener, which seems to repeat itself every three years. SAIL I still get: Consumer Reports Rolling Stone Organizations we belong to send us magazines: Am. Civil Liberties Union Americans United for Separation of Church and State U. of Evansville Ball State U. Am. Society of Women Accountants AA Retired People Am Automobile Assn. United Auto Workers Marijuana Policy Project Arthritis Foundation Indiana Public Broadcasting WFYI-FM and -TV I’m thinking of starting: Cook’s Illustrated ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/43 "2008-01-10T23:49:23Z")
Between **Spiny Norman** and I: Scientific American National Geographic People Redbook Coastal Living Martha Stewart Living – (provided by my Realtor as a Christmas gift, though come to think of it, I don’t recall getting a new notification for it this year, so perhaps it’ll stop coming) Real Simple – (provided by a neighbor who includes me in a magazine round robin she has with some other friends, and shares this one with me when she’s done). I really like this one. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/44 "2008-01-10T23:56:41Z")
The Economist Communications of the ACM I barely have time to keep up with those two, so any more are right out. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/45 "2008-01-11T00:05:25Z")
Instinct. I used to subscribe to several other magazines but I got out of the habit of reading them. I’d end up with three or four (or more) issues of each magazine piled up and have to make a concerted effort to plow through them. I keep waiting for the renewal notice on the last one to come so I can write a letter to the editor to turn it down (the magazine has a habit of snarking in the lettercol at its subscribers who don’t renew and I yearn to be snarked at) but apparently I renewed it for something like 37 years so it ain’t happening. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/46 "2008-01-11T02:06:15Z")
I get only one magazine: MUM Magazine, published by the Society of American Magicians. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/47 "2008-01-11T02:13:27Z")
Allure In Style Scottish Life Highlander Realm Also get college and sorority mags. If I keep up with my cross-stitching, I might subscribe to one of those. DH takes Popular Science and some computer magazine, which name escapes me. ---
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/48 "2008-01-11T02:43:22Z")
The Economist. I’m too cheap to actually buy a magazine subscription, so I only have this because I could get it through my Delta miles. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/49 "2008-01-11T02:55:19Z")
Scientific American Skeptic Skeptical Inquirer Vanity Fair ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/50 "2008-01-11T04:01:39Z")
[QUOTE=Attack from the 3rd dimension] My goodness, no-one has mentioned my favorite: **The Fortean Times** \*\* [/QUOTE] I’d love to, but it’s insanely expensive. I’d like to get Vice, Found, and Hails and Horns too but they’re too underground to be an impulse subscription where I won’t miss the $8 or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/51 "2008-01-11T04:29:57Z")
Mine: Allure Horticulture Fine Gardening Jet Smithsonian His: ( **BobPi’s** ) Chess Life Fine Woodworking Science News Scientific American Woodsmith Ours: Freethought Today ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/52 "2008-01-11T04:54:11Z")
Only two others for \*\*New Scientist \*\*? :eek: I couldn’t live in the modern world without it, it’s my highest priority reading and the only magazine I subscribe to - time limitations mostly. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/53 "2008-01-11T08:19:02Z")
New Scientist XY Wired Lost ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/54 "2008-01-11T13:20:59Z")
[QUOTE=Askance] Only two others for \*\*New Scientist \*\*? :eek: I couldn’t live in the modern world without it, it’s my highest priority reading and the only magazine I subscribe to - time limitations mostly. [/QUOTE] I read parts of it online and I read the Scientific America cover to cover instead. ---
**Author:** ![Purgatory\_Creek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Purgatory\_Creek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purgatory_Creek)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/55 "2008-01-11T13:42:05Z")
I’ve been lax on subscribing since we moved, but after reading this list I am inspired to do a little shopping. At the moment, our household gets: Countryside Hobby Farm Mother Earth News Scientific American (for Purgatory Man–I’m too stoopid for that mag) Birds ‘N’ Blooms I read PC Gamer in my psychiatrist’s waiting room 😃 . We used to get National Geographic–probably my favorite magazine of all time–but they so inundated us with advertising that we resigned in protest. ---
**Author:** ![mikemo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/41988e/32.png) [@mikemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikemo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/56 "2008-01-11T13:52:57Z")
In no particular order: National Geographic Astronomy Golf Digest Golf Tips Woodworker’s Journal Wood (a Better Homes and Gardens woodworking mag). I also recieve the USBC (bowling) magazine as part of my membership. Anyone care to guess what my hobbies are?! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/57 "2008-01-11T14:16:27Z")
[QUOTE=mikemo] In no particular order: National Geographic Astronomy Golf Digest Golf Tips Woodworker’s Journal Wood (a Better Homes and Gardens woodworking mag). I also recieve the USBC (bowling) magazine as part of my membership. Anyone care to guess what my hobbies are?! 🙂 [/QUOTE] Macrame? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/58 "2008-01-11T14:42:22Z")
The Reader’s Digest. I would probably let that one lapse, but Mom renews the subscription every year for Christmas. I sometimes will subscribe to Playboy for a year. I appreciate the hot women and believe it or not, often enjoy the interviews. But after a year of getting it I get bored and let it go for a few years. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/59 "2008-01-11T14:47:55Z")
Current subscriptions: Time Consumers’ Digest Wired Sky & Telescope Astronomy Budget Travel Photoshop User InStyle Occasional store purchases: Dwell Scientific American Cook’s Illustrated Frequent store purchases, because even at full cover price, it’s cheaper than subscribing to a UK-published magazine: Digital Photographer Practical Photography ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024/60 "2008-01-11T17:11:19Z")
Me: Martha Stewart Living Bon Appetite Gourmet Everyday Food Husband: Newspapers only Son: Some gaming magazine he got through GameStop that they send him monthly [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-magazines-do-you-subscribe/433024.md?page=4)