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[CelticCrafter]

The only magazine I get is Food Network.

I used to pick up Womans Day and Family Circle at the supermarket but haven't done that in a long time.  They would sit on the table for a week or so, I would quickly go through looking at pictures and then throw them into the recycling bin.  Most times the recipes I made from them were awful no matter how good the picture looked so I stopped wasting my $.  

[maisiebrook]

I browse popular magazines online on Flipster, available through my library.  When I see an article or recipe I print it.  I purchase only when I want a special edition  or sometimes Costco where they are discounted .  This approach helps me minimize clutter.

[Alison Wonderland]

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@PamfromCT wrote:

I’ve really cut down on my subscriptions.  However, somehow or another, I have run through periods where various magazines have been sent to me without my approval - Time, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Day, etc.  Finally, after months, they stop.  I do enjoy Yankee Magazine, with very interesting articles for New Englanders or those with general interest in our region.  Even the ads are interesting.  It is published 10 times a year.  I do have to laugh at Woman’s World in the supermarkets.  How to lose massive amounts of weight, look far younger than you are, etc.  Barnes and Noble is a great place to look for magazines,  but something has to be very special for me to spend $$$ for magazines.

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There are companies that "include" a magazine subscription no one ever asked for whenever someone places an order with them. HSN was one of them and, for a while, I was getting a copy of Lucky magazine I did not want or read. I made repeated efforts to cancel it and it kept coming. What an enormous waste - I just tossed it into the recycle bin every time it showed up. I believe they stopped that practice a few years back.

I can never keep up with newspapers or magazines and they pile up and create clutter that gets out of control too easily. I find it easier not to let the paper in my home at all, so I have digital subscriptions to 4 newspapers, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and Ellery Queen.

Sometimes I'll pick up a fashion magazine to read during a rare summer pedicure and then leave it at the nail salon when I finish.

[Oznell]

I used to subscribe to House Beautiful, Elle Decor and Architectural Digest.  I got to where I didn't like the heavy-handed tactics they use to get you to re-up your subscription.  So, now I don't subscribe, but pick up the occasional newstand copy.

Women's fashion magazines have weirdly become politicized, all in one direction.  I don't like that some of them make the assumption that, if you are female, you automatically subscribe to their world view.  So I save a fair bit of money bypassing them...

[catter70]

I subscribe to 8 or so magazines and my sister also subsribes to some. We trade them with each other after we've read them and then pass them on to a friend. When she's done looking thru them, she takes them to the assisted living residence where her mother lives where I'm sure those living there enjoy them.

[chrystaltree]

I don't care ofr Oprah, I don't like or need her magazine.  But an online store I do shop with offered a free 6 month subscription and I took it.  My thought was that when I received the bill after the free period, I'd decline.  That was about 3 years ago.  I never reeived any bill and 3 years later, the magazine keeps coming.   My friend said she had the opposite problem with two magazine subscriptions that she got through retailers.  She never received the magazines but did get over due notices and phone calls and harrassment for quite some time.  

[kitcat51]

A Primitive Place & Country Sampler are my current subscriptions & I'd like to add A Simple Life but my budget won't stretch that far so I only buy the Fall issue. I keep my magazines & use them for decorating ideas.

[Sooner]

Architectural Digest, Martha Stewart Living, Southern Lady, Traditional Home, Cooks Illustrated, 

[gidgetgh]

I subscribe to two: People and US.

No problem with clutter. They come in, I read them and then we take them to recycling. 

[tansy]

True Confession:  I was a magazine junkie.

I no longer have any magazine subscriptions.  It just doesn't work with snow birding between WA and AZ.  I miss Sunset the most, which I had subscribed to for 45 years.  I will pick up an occasional craft or small house decorating magazine at the store.

Like @proudlyfromNJ, I occasionally spend a few hours at the library browsing the magazines.