Part-Time Homeschooler Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I'm looking for some good magazines for myself and the kids. Right now I get Victoria and The English Home for myself, Highlights for the kids. Thanks in advance for your suggestions! I'm sure there are several great publications out there that I've never heard of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plaid Dad Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I get New Oxford Review and Touchstone (a welcome gift from a board friend!). I won't be renewing my NOR subscription, however; I'm considering getting This Rock instead. My dw gets Living Crafts and Wondertime and borrows Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Mothering, National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, Budget Travel, Family Fun, MacWorld, and Cook's Illustrated from the library. Our dd only gets magazines from the library. She likes Muse, Young Rider, Your Big Backyard, Ranger Rick, Highlights, and American Girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Aside from the obvious - National Geographic - we also enjoy Smithsonian, American History, and I get Sunset (to make myself homesick for S. California). I can hardly endorse Smithsonian too much - it is sooooo good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutor Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 The kids get Highlights. Dh and I get Smithsonian, Books & Culture, Imprimus, Mother Earth News, Simple & Delicious and Above Rubies. I have also been receiving Atlantic recently, but I'm not sure why... I need to call and make sure there isn't some mistake (although my aunt has been known to get us subscriptions as gifts and not tell us). We receive all ours as gifts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhesa Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I'm looking for some good magazines for myself and the kids. Right now I get Victoria and The English Home for myself, Highlights for the kids. I was SOO excited to see that Victoria is being republished! I started getting that magazine when I was first married. I kept almost every issue. It holds lots of memories for me, but I haven't subscribed to it this time. I have picked them up at B&N. I only have gift subscriptions: TIME, Real Simple, and (gasp!) Entertainment Weekly. (whisper: Don't tell anyone that occasionally I like mindless drivel...):blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiguirre Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 For kids we subscribe to Your Big Backyard and I've bought Ladybug, Spider, Click and Ask on ebay (I wouldn't pay the subscription price). For us: The Economist, The Financial Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The Nation, Smithsonian, The New Yorker and Natural History. I pick up the National Geographic at the library magazine sale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom2legomaniacs Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 We get National Geographic that we pay for. We have been gifted with Consumer Reports, Coastal Living, ZooBooks, National Geographic Kids, and Self. (I don't care for any of the gifted ones except ZooBooks are really cool. Oh and Consumer Reports is fine too) I need to tell those that gifted them to not renew and get me something I really like instead. Just keep forgetting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cheryl in NM Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Countryside is a great magazine similar to Mother Earth News(the way it was decades ago). We were just given year's worth of National Geographic. The National Geo for kids is great. I love Highlights as a kid, but ds doesn't seem really into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagnfun Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Family fun for the kids, Shape & Fitness for me, and Scene (nascar) for Hubby! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klmama Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Sometimes we get others, if dh is offered a "professional" discount on financial magazines, but these are the ones we get consistently from year to year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 National Geo; Smithsonian; Reader's Digest; Southern Living. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarleneW Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Family Fun, Redbook, Cooking Light, Rachel Ray, Weight Watchers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E_Edgerton Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 The Week (highly recommended, especially if you don't have cable) and Dwell (sustainable and modern home stuff) , Men's Journal (for DH), and Cooks Illustrated. Also, The Atlantic (not really what I had hoped.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquirer Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Shape, Runner's World, Pilates Style Elle Decor, Harpers, Lucky Cooking Light, Bon Appetit, Cook's Illustrated, Wine Spectator Travel and Leisure Cattleman, Outside, American Rifleman, Flying Ranger Rick, Natural History Wall Street Journal Most of these I got for free for filling out some online surveys and some come with memberships ... the only ones I pay for are Runner's World, Cooking Light, Bon Appetit and Cook's Illustrated. Bon Appetit I read and tear out recipes I like ... the others I keep for future reference. You never know when you are going to need to cook a meal for your running group while introducing them to a training plan for a ultra marathon or help them find some new core exercise to make their running more efficient :001_smile:. It pretty well covers our life ... I an a fitness buff with a taste for beautiful things. My husband wants to add more cattle and an airplane to our life. My son's want to be National Park Rangers and we all love to travel. No wonder I am too busy to read a book lately, maybe I should cut down on the subscriptions ... but most of them are free :confused:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWSJ Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Highlights and SciAm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 National Geographic, Smithsonian, Air and Space, Science News, The Word Among Us (R. Catholic lectionary). I plan on getting Muse for my daughter for her birthday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colleen Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I'm not a fan of magazine subscriptions. Magazines feel like clutter to me. I like Orion (an environmentalist mag), among other reasons, because it has no ads and arrives just once every two months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vida Winter Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I only subscribe to one magazine, and that is National Review. I don't have time to read others but if I did, they would be Cook's Illustrated and Victoria. My husband gets Wall Street Journal and a variety of outdoor/hunting magazines and computer magazines and Consumer Reports. I rarely read any of them unless he calls my attention to a particular article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crissy Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I only receive one magazine at home, Bookmarks. There are several magazines I read regularly at the library. They include Gourmet, Chocolatier, Cooks Illustrated and Donna Hay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth in SW WA Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 DS 12.5 gets: Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Lacrosse Magazine. For me, Prevention I read online for news, politics & pop culture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughCollie Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Scientific American, Women's Day, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest, Red Sox Magazine, Wired Kids get American Girl, Boy's Life, and read the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandra in NC Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I don't know if we subscribe to AARP magazine or not, but we get it! My son says it's like Consumer Reports for old people. Time used to be my favorite until they reformatted the magazine about 2 years ago. Now I like Newsweek better. The Economist is good - but it's more than I can read each week. We get Consumer Reports for my husband. He enjoys that magazine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela in TN Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 We get The Economist, World Magazine, Real Simple and Budget Travel. I admit I don't read the Economist (dh does), I love the others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T Baer Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 National Review (Wm Buckley RIP and we love Florence King) Newsweek Highlights Kids Discover Focus on the Family magazines: Citizens Club House Plugged In Learning Thru History Woman's Day Wow, listing them, didn't realize how many we had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punkinelly Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Sports Illustrate for me, Credenda Agenda for dh and me, Prevention for me. Mary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda in NM Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Um <blush> Everyday with Rachel Ray, Country, Traverse...my son gets USA Hockey, the Little League magazine, and Sports Illustrated for Teens...I read The New Yorker in medical offices Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThelmaLou Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Consumer Reports Taste of Home Quick Cooking For the boys: Lego club and God's World News (from World mag.) I used to subscribe to Credenda Agenda, but now browse their articles online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet in Toronto Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 We get L'Actualite (french-language Cdn news mag), The New Yorker, Toronto Life, Nutrition Action Newsletter, Consumer Reports, Homemakers (Cdn women's mag), Canadian House and Home. DS 16 gets Rolling Stone (although I read it too :) ), Runner's World, and Hockey News. DS 13 gets Nintendo Power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyMcGillicuddy Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 It's Mental Floss Magazine and it's for me. I like learning little bits about a wide range of topics and this fits the bill. Bonnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 National Geographic (regular, not the one for Kids) Practical Homeschooling (I think my subscription ran out though) Live Free Learn Free Life Learning Magazine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I get Countryside and small farm journal, Mother Earth News, Cooking Light and Health (they were a 2 for 1 deal). Also, several devotionals. We all read World magazine and Guideposts. We had National Geographic last year, but no one looked at it. :( The boys get the Boy Scout magazine, and dd gets Your Big Backyard. I'd like the boys to start reading more, so I picked up Popular Science and Discover, which they did read! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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