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[meallen616]

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!

[Nomorebirthdays]

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.

[Allegheny]

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.

[violann]

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.

[Perkup]

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.

[KaySD]

Yes, and...

National Geographic!

[missy1]

None

[GCR18]

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

[lulu2]

Reader's Digest

Ladies' Home Journal

[RedTop]

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!"