# What (real life) magazines are you subscribed to? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2012, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590 "2012-05-21T11:24:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/41 "2012-05-21T21:17:04Z")
Adults read Mad? I’m only subscribed to Reader’s Digest and Smithsonian at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/42 "2012-05-21T21:18:13Z")
I subscribe to Foreign Affairs. What’s Smithsonian about? ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/43 "2012-05-21T22:07:47Z")
Entertainment Weekly Money Kiplingers Consumer Reports I’m considering subscribing to the New Yorker. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/44 "2012-05-21T22:22:03Z")
The New Yorker (since 1982) Readers Digest Home Handyman Consumer Reports Let National Geographic lapse, must renew. Considering renewing Entertainment Weekly - an excellent value Let lapse and don’t regret it: Rolling Stone Newsweek Sports Illustrated mmm ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/45 "2012-05-21T22:45:11Z")
I don’t get any magazines in the mail anymore - but on my Nook I get: The New Yorker Smithsonian Foreign Affairs The New Yorker is serious reading - I can usually only read one or two articles a week - but the articles are very in depth and well written. Foreign Affairs comes every 2 months so I can read it at a much more leisurely pace. Smithsonian is an easy read at once a month. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/46 "2012-05-21T23:26:11Z")
I get Real Simple magazine, and [Lab Medicine](http://labmed.ascpjournals.org/). I also get hand-me-down Consumer Reports, because my mother-in-law gives them to me after she reads them. I used to get Good Housekeeping and Bon Appetit, but I didn’t think they were worth renewing. After reading the free copy of Scientific American I got at a recent science expo, I think I may treat myself to a subscription. I’ve heard, though, that it’s been declining in quality and becoming more shallow - thoughts? I also got a free “Science News”, “New Scientist” and “American Scientist”, all of which seemed pretty interesting. Does anyone have experience with those? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/47 "2012-05-21T23:35:35Z")
> [@DonLogan](#): > > Tip: If you have some miles piled up from an airline and you’re pretty sure you’ll never use them on flights, you can often use them for a one year subscription to magazines. The publishers are so hard up for hard copy subscribers that a lot of them will just keep extending your subscription long after it first expires. I’ll say they’re hard up - Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, Men’s Health and Golf have all been showing up free in my mailbox for a while, and I never subscribed to them in the first place. I love getting the first two, but have been pitching the others unread. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/48 "2012-05-22T00:00:18Z")
National Geographic Interweave Knits Vogue Knitting ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/49 "2012-05-22T00:03:49Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I’ll say they’re hard up - Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, Men’s Health and Golf have all been showing up free in my mailbox for a while, and I never subscribed to them in the first place. I love getting the first two, but have been pitching the others unread. Yeah, that’s what I was going to mention. I get enough stuff in the mail that I don’t have any reason to subscribe. That and all the specialty mags I’m interested in are technology based, and thus have been online for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/50 "2012-05-22T00:10:10Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I’ll say they’re hard up - Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, Men’s Health and Golf have all been showing up free in my mailbox for a while, and I never subscribed to them in the first place. I love getting the first two, but have been pitching the others unread. I get Entertainment Weekly. The subscription price is dirt cheap anyway. Never received any free magazines out of the blue. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/51 "2012-05-22T00:15:45Z")
None, but I do read the entertainment mags in my doctor’s waiting room. I see Katy Perry and Russell Brand are engaged. They seen an unlikely pairing, but I have a feeling those two can make it. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/52 "2012-05-22T00:22:29Z")
Vanity Fair (my current favorite) Southern Living Mother Earth News Coastal Living (dirt cheap trial from Southern Living. Won’t renew.) InStyle (free trial from Ulta that I can’t figure out how to terminate) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/53 "2012-05-22T00:25:07Z")
Entertainment Weekly Tennis ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/54 "2012-05-22T01:22:44Z")
_Grit, Countryside, Hobby Farm, Hobby Farm Home_ (which we’ll allow to lapse), _Mother Earth News_. We’re paid up on most of these for several years into the future. My chihuahua has a subscription to _Smithsonian_, so he gets a lot of Washington-related junk mail like surveys from Nancy Pelosi and advertising from the US Mint. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/55 "2012-05-22T01:31:05Z")
None anymore. Last one I had was to Electronic Gaming Monthly before they went under. Actually, I somehow wound up with two simultaneous subscriptions. Later, when the magazine was revived, they somehow managed not to revive their outstanding subscriptions. Man, what a jip. Also, for some reason I got an issue of Billboard in the mail recently. I never subscribed, never asked for it, flipping through it don’t even find it worth reading or giving a more thorough pass thru. I dunno why they sent it to me, but if they try to send me a bill for it, I will laugh in their face. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/56 "2012-05-22T01:33:03Z")
I forgot the New Yorker, Southern Living and Town & Country. Town & Country was free when I renewed Vanity Fair. It’s not something I would buy on my own. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/57 "2012-05-22T01:57:42Z")
Food Network, Rachael Ray, Taste of Home, and Allure. Gran sends me Midwest Living and Better Homes and Gardens. ---
**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/58 "2012-05-22T02:01:46Z")
Mental Floss Games Games World Of Puzzles Biblical Archaeology Review ---
**Author:** ![applebetty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@applebetty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/applebetty)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/59 "2012-05-22T02:10:11Z")
Mother Earth News Country Living Mother Jones ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590/60 "2012-05-22T04:28:42Z")
Household subscriptions (some for me, some for hubby, some for both of us, some for the kids) The Bloodhorse (horse racing news) The Horse (boring name for an excellent equine medicine journal) Discover Consumer Reports Architectural Digest Car and Driver National Geographic Kids [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-real-life-magazines-are-you-subscribed-to/622590.md?page=4)