Magazines Anyone? Assignment #85

Weekend Assignment #85: What magazines do you subscribe to and why? This assumes you currently subscribe to a magazine or two, of course, but I'm reasonably confident most of us do. If you don't have any current subscriptions, however, you can list some of your most recent subscriptions or magazines you want to subscribe to.

Extra Credit: What was your first magazine subscription?

 

Okay, MY FIRST Magazine as a teenager was STAR HITS!!  In fact, I have 4 of these magazines still in my footlocker of memories that sits in the garage.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

I didn't get a subscription though.  I would buy these on my own at the grocery store.  I loved these magazines because there were always good posters that I used to decorate my bedroom with, and they always had written lyrics to all the popular songs of the day.  The magazine was "hipper" than Star Beat in my opinion, because it highlighted a lot of British musicians.  Back then, I LOVED the CURE, and Culture Club, and the Thompson Twins....  Yes, I was a teenager in the early 1980's...  Aww..the memories.....

  Mademoiselle was my first REAL subscription.  It had the latest clothing styles, and the subjects were interesting.  My father however disapproved of it and called it a "dirty" magazine.  But I only read if for the clothes!!   I discontinued the subscription, and bought it over the counter after that, and remember never to take it outside of my room.

What do I read now??  I don't have time toread!!!! 

  Nowadays, I get my Kraft Kitchen magazines sent to me in the mail, and if my family is lucky, I'll try a new receipe from it now and then... 

The children magazine subscriptions I have subscribed to Seventeen for my oldest daughter, but she didn't seem to be interested in it anymore and that was cancelled, and Nickelodeon was for the boys, but they have out-grown it as well.  So, besides my receipe magazines, that I always try to read, but sometimes forget, lately, we really don't have magazine subscriptions.  We used to get T.V. Guide, but since Tivo, we really don't need it anymore.  It might be more expensive, but I buy it over the counter.                 

I'll buy First for Women, for receipes, and a People magazine now and then for celebrity drama, and even the National Enquirer---great beach reading!!