What magazine have you stuck with the longest?

  1. I still subscribe to Funny Times.

  2. I went to Humboldt State (as it was) and managed to get thrown out for aggressively not studying.

Ah, I loved visiting Arcata.

Amazing! I never get a response to that.

I wish all the humor columns weren’t variations of “I’m old now!” but the point was always the cartoons.

Hustler. Still hasn’t lost its edge. :slightly_smiling_face:

Consumer Reports - I get a gift subscription every year. I even read about 5-6 issues each year.
SportsCar - This is the magazine of a club I belong to. I’ve seen it on the racks, but it’s not going to mean anything to someone not involved in the club.
National Geographic - I had a subscription until they started going heavy on Christian history. I dropped it. Fox bought into it. I’m so glad I dropped it.
Time, and then I switched to Newsweek because I could read my parent’s Time. I don’t read either unless I’m travelling now.
I like the in-depth articles in The New Yorker and Atlantic magazines but I’ve never gotten a subscription because I know I would feel that I have to read everything. I haven’t had the time. Maybe after retirement.

Have gotten National Geographic for many years.

Back in the 80s and 90s I was very dedicated to Guitar for the Practicing Musician. I always liked it way better than Guitar Player.

Started getting Entertainment Weekly around 1995 or so and was a continuous subscriber until they finally stopped production this month. Getting the little paper card in the mail saying that they were ceasing production made me sad.

Well, it went monthly in 2019. That’s an absolute indicator of doom in a magazine with Weekly in the title.

The New Yorker for me, too. I’ve recently started getting some others, like the Atlantic, but they don’t have those wonderful cartoons.

mmm, where did you find the “pretty good deal”?

The Atlantic is pretty much the only one we’ve gotten for a long time now. At least 20 years.

I respect the commitment of those of you who receive and read weeklies like the New Yorker and Economist!

I had a Reader’s Digest subscription for about a decade, reading them during my hour-long commutes, and giving each issue to a coworker when I was done. Let my subscription lapse when I started working from home.

My father had his NG collection (which I mentioned upthread) beautifully leather-bound (6 issues/book) and indexed. As a child, all I had to do was look up “bare breasts” in the index. [kidding] :grinning:

I’ve had a subscription to Mad since 1987.

I had a New Yorker subscription for a number of years, but I just couldn’t keep up. Heck, I can’t keep up with my book stack, and I care more about books than magazines. So, I finally just let it lapse.

For me, it was The American Motorcyclist Association magazine. I was a member for about 15 years, and had quit racing, so wasn’t really doing anything with the membership, but figured I’d stick it out and become a Charter Life Member (earned after 25 years). The magazine was one of the primary reasons…

Well, the wonderful organization made the decision to discontinue sending the paper magazine to Charter Life Members about two years before I hit the 25 year mark.

As usual, Baldrick, the Devil farts in my face.

Rolling Stone. Maybe 25 years ago, I already had a subscription, and they offered a lifetime scrip for about the cost of 5 years. I said Hell yeah!.

Consumer Reports. I’ve been reading it for decades.

.Cook’s Illustrated. Top notch recipes, product testing, kitchen tips every month. They’re linked to America’s Test Kitchen.

When I was sailing, I had SAIL and Practical Sailor. Parkinson’s took away my balance, and I’m not safe on boats anymore.

For a dozen years or more, I had a subscription to Automobile Quarterly, a hard-bound, lavishly illustrated, deeply-researched journal of (mostly) antique cars.

When I first looked, all I could find was 12 months for $169. When I posted in this thread I ran across 12 months for $79 (still not exactly cheap). This was from discountmags.com.

(BTW, looking there now it’s $119. Not sure why it varies so much day-to-day)

mmm

It was old issues of NG that got me hooked. My grandparents subscribed and would bring old issues up to the cabin we all shared to re-read on days that were too rainy or windy for fishing. I learned so much from them. Thanks G’ma!

I generally found “Africa” or occasionally “South America” as the tip-off when I was young.

I’m still loyal to Collier’s, even though delivery has gotten really unreliable.