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fleetwood — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 14:58:26 GMT

Which periodicals were delivered to your home as a child?

Ones that I recall are:

TV Guide

Readers Digest

National Geographic

Good Housekeeping

Redbook

Womans Day

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deepwaterdotter — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:06:55 GMT

Probably more than I can recall. The ones I remember are "Time", "The Nation", and "Rolling Stone".

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Trinity11 — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:09:04 GMT

My mom really loved "Better Homes and Gardens." She used to pick up "Family Circle" and "Woman's Day" at the supermarket. She wasn't into fashion or beauty so when I was about 11 and started reading "Seventeen," "Glamour" and "Mademoiselle" she liked to read them too..

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CAcableGirl2 — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:09:11 GMT

Highlights for Children

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Yahooey — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:09:28 GMT

Life

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LdyBugz — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:10:36 GMT

Life

Reader's Digest

T.V. Guide

Local newspapers; The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and, The News Herald

On Sundays, my dad would pick up the New York Times.

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StylishLady — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:12:26 GMT

When I was married, 1963, we had a few magazines sent to our place. TV Guide was one. We only had 3 channels, but it was nice to be able to see what shows were on what night and time. Also had Life. DH cancelled that when it published photos of dead soldiers in Viet Nam. I got Vogue for years till I cancelled it because of some of the advertising they had. Better Homes & Garden was also one. It was best when it was a larger publication. They downsized it and I stopped getting it. We don't get any these days, just the daily newspaper.

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I am still oxox — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:11:37 GMT

TIME and McCalls and later on NY Magazine, dad bought the NY Times in the morning and brought home the NY Post

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fleetwood — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:11:56 GMT

Oh I forgot about Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle. We had those also.

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blueroses47 — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:13:20 GMT

None, really. But this was in the fifties and sixties, and I don't think subscriptions were so popular, although they did exist.

We always bought the TV guide in the supermarket, and sometimes the homemaking magazines, like Better homes and Good Housekeeping. When I got into my teens I loved Glamour, Seventeen, etc.

My dad would always buy Newsweek, which he apparently preferred over Time.

I'll tell you, I was a loyal TV Guide purchaser until the format changed so drastically about 20 years ago. It wasn't so much that the size changed from that neat little compact guide to a conventional size magazine, but the grids were a nightmare to follow, and just didn't seem to be user friendly at all. I thought they really ruined a good thing there.

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meallen616 — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:36:06 GMT

We were a family of five so we got alot of magazines delivered,

TV Guide

Readers Digest

Good Housekeeping

Redbook

Family Circle

Woman's Day

Time

Life

Highlights for children

Glamour

Seventeen

Mademoiselle

The mailman would complain that we got soooo many!

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Nomorebirthdays — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:41:08 GMT

We got tv guide at the grocery store.

I have life Magazine from JFK assassination and newspapers, but we did not get any in the mail.

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Allegheny — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:45:20 GMT

None. When I was a child in the 50s my parents really couldn't afford magazine subscriptions. They did get the local newspaper delivered starting in the 60s.

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violann — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:59:27 GMT

My "dirty little secret" hobby is my penchant for acquiring and reading old magazines.

During our recent move we found a bunch of WW2 era Reader's Digests that evidently were my mom and dad's, and I've been slowly reading through them as a treat after doing some drudgey task that I don't want to do.

YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE the messages I've found in these magazines, and more important, the lessons to be learned after 70+ YEARS!

I also love "women's" magazines for decorating my vintage ranch, recipes, retro fiction, holiday ideasand so much more.

Was it a French philosopher who stated "The more we change, the more we remain the same"? A lot of wisdom in THAT, too.

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Perkup — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 21:10:30 GMT

Like others, we couldn't afford magazines. But my Aunt got the Saturday Evening Post and Life, and she shared them with me every month. Later she got Better Homes & Gardens and shared that also.

Came back to say I just remembered that at some point when I was five or six or so I think someone gave me a subscription to Jack and Jill magazine for Christmas. Hardly remember the magazine, so it must have been early years. And there was the Weekly Reader magazine that came to the school. Everyone got that.

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KaySD — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 17:45:58 GMT

Yes, and...

National Geographic!

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missy1 — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 17:47:35 GMT

None

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GCR18 — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 19:28:55 GMT

We didn't get anything delivered until my sister and I were around 15. We then got seventeen and glamour.

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lulu2 — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 19:31:27 GMT

Reader's Digest

Ladies' Home Journal

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RedTop — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 19:53:55 GMT

None. The first time I saw a TV Guide at my girlfriends house, I went home and told my Mom we needed one. Her response? "We only pick up 2 TV channels, we already know what's on!"