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20. No, we pretty much paid for them; subscription rates, but a couple ran about $75/yr.

Mon Aug 7, 2023, 10:51 PM

Aug 2023

I’m trying to remember them. There were enough that I used to keep a spreadsheet so I didn’t just pay up subscriptions years into the future.

Smithsonian
American Heritage
Good Old Days
Ideals
Omni
Astronomy
National Geographic
Sports Illustrated
Sporting News
Vineland (Chicago Cubs magazine)
Playboy
Time or Newsweek
Bob Appétit
Food and Wine
Stereo Review
High Fidelity
Guns & Ammo
Shooting Times
Handguns
Knives Illustrated
Blade
Tactical Knives
Mother Earth News
TV Guide
Advance (Iowa Public TV Guide)
Readers Digest
Cross Stitch (And three or four other cross stitch or quilting magazines. I didn’t read them, and the names kept changing)

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What magazines did you enjoy reading? Can be at any stage of your life. I enjoyed Reader's Digest, [View all] debm55 Aug 2023 OP

Same for me on both counts. FalloutShelter Aug 2023 #1

High school, 60 or so years ago.. Permanut Aug 2023 #2

Great, debm55 Aug 2023 #54

2, 3, 4 decades ago. Time, National Geo, Psychology Today LizBeth Aug 2023 #3

What a great idea debm55 Aug 2023 #55

Consumer Reports but the price went too high. keithbvadu2 Aug 2023 #4

We would read it at the library before me made a major purchase. debm55 Aug 2023 #56

National Geographic TexasDem69 Aug 2023 #5

The repukes would ban GP6971 Aug 2023 #10

We actually have a subscription to NG TexasDem69 Aug 2023 #40

We got Time and Newsweek. Brother got Sports Illustrated debm55 Aug 2023 #57

Mad GP6971 Aug 2023 #6

Spy vs Spy--my favorite in Mad, Miss it debm55 Aug 2023 #58

Oh deb BOSSHOG Aug 2023 #7

I haven't seen a recent edition of Reader's Digest. I really liked the jokes and puns and stories, debm55 Aug 2023 #59

Yesterday I got a September 1973 RD BOSSHOG Aug 2023 #66

Wacky info about Readers Digest BOSSHOG Aug 2023 #72

There was a time when we subscribed to more than 25 magazines. rsdsharp Aug 2023 #8

Must have been that "special offer" where you got the magazine for free but paid for shipping. That debm55 Aug 2023 #12

No, we pretty much paid for them; subscription rates, but a couple ran about $75/yr. rsdsharp Aug 2023 #20

WOW debm55 Aug 2023 #60

When I was a kid we got National Geographic, the Saturday Evening Post Ocelot II Aug 2023 #9

Ocelot II very selections debm55 Aug 2023 #61

The Saturday Evening Post back in the late 50's, early 60's beveeheart Aug 2023 #11

Good choices debm55 Aug 2023 #62

Look and Life were in my house. Then Time and Newsweek. OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2023 #13

Same here, debm55 Aug 2023 #63

MAD Wicked Blue Aug 2023 #14

My guilty pleasure was MAD. Miss it debm55 Aug 2023 #64

Glamour, Newsweek, Vanity Fair. Polly Hennessey Aug 2023 #15

Great selection , Polly debm55 Aug 2023 #65

Reader's Digest, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Boy's Life. Archae Aug 2023 #16

I used to subscribe to The Nation Deuxcents Aug 2023 #17

Car and Driver plus Road & Track MichMan Aug 2023 #18

When I was in my early teens I also read Readers Digest cover to cover. MLAA Aug 2023 #19

Time, Mad, Sports I, Bicycling, Rolling Stone, work related, musical Silent Type Aug 2023 #21

NG, Smithsonian, Natural History, grumpyduck Aug 2023 #22

1963--Mad, Marvel Comics... First Speaker Aug 2023 #23

We had Life, National Rifleman, Outdoor Life and Readers Digest growing up. nt doc03 Aug 2023 #24

Did anyone else read "In These Times"? DBoon Aug 2023 #25

Oh c'mon. I'll say it Playboy. Ok I didn't actually "read" it. captain queeg Aug 2023 #26

National Geographic, Mad, Time, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Mag Bristlecone Aug 2023 #27

I forgot about Alfred Hitchcock's magazine mockmonkey Aug 2023 #30

Read Time, preferred Newsweek BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 2023 #68

When I was a kid, I read Life and Time magazines ailsagirl Aug 2023 #28

From age 8 to 25 mockmonkey Aug 2023 #29

Rolling Stone. Omni (and the digest-size SF magazines, Analog and highplainsdem Aug 2023 #31

That is so funny, Prairie_Seagull Aug 2023 #46

Highlights, Sixteen, Tigerbeat, Mad, Seventeen, Cosmo, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Vogue LeftInTX Aug 2023 #32

Same plus MAD, Victoria, and Dragon GPV Aug 2023 #34

Just a few of my favourites: niyad Aug 2023 #33

Mother Earth News Emile Aug 2023 #35

High Times Emile Aug 2023 #36

2 out of 3, debm! True Dough Aug 2023 #37

befpre things got crazy onethatcares Aug 2023 #38

Not real big on magazines, but like the Economist... malthaussen Aug 2023 #39

MAD, and my great-aunt's vintage collection of "National Geographic." Paladin Aug 2023 #41

Life magazine, Newsweek magazine and Readers Digest. All 3 from about JR high until....? Fla Dem Aug 2023 #42

CoEvolution Quarterly BluesRunTheGame Aug 2023 #43

National Geographic. Elessar Zappa Aug 2023 #44

I read somewhere that National Geographic was going to stop publishing. Haven't seen anything since. debm55 Aug 2023 #50

Life, Time, National Geographic, New York Mag, Arizona Highways,The New Yorker, OMNI... electric_blue68 Aug 2023 #45

So did I , at the B and N cafe. debm55 Aug 2023 #49

👍 electric_blue68 Aug 2023 #69

I still have 85 issues of Rolling Stone. Mr.Bill Aug 2023 #47

Are they worth anything? debm55 Aug 2023 #48

Antique dealers have offered me $1 a piece. Mr.Bill Aug 2023 #51

Oh, I would hold onto them. debm55 Aug 2023 #52

Yeah, that's what I'm doing. n/t Mr.Bill Aug 2023 #53

Several. And now the clinic where I work has removed all the mags from the waiting areas. Laffy Kat Aug 2023 #67

Oh, how could I forget MAD magazine, and later Rolling Stone! electric_blue68 Aug 2023 #70

Cycle and Cyclenews. Hotler Aug 2023 #71