I used to ask this question when I’d interview job applicants. Of course, I worked in publishing, so the question was related … but I always thought it would make a great question for ANY kind of interview.
Consider yourself interviewed!
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Mommy Pie
Mommy Pie 
Me, personally? None. Not a one. Definitely not Radar or People. That Redbook over there? That’s Bill’s, as are the Cosmo and the Us Weekly. Clearly, he has issues…HA! Issues. Gawd, I crack myself up. Anyway, probably Bill should seek help for his problem with subscribing to nearly any magazine he peruses at a checkout once or twice. I mean, really, Star magazine? Has he no shame at all?
That’s awesome. Clearly, he’s a very secure man. 🙂
I got reader’s digest, and cosmo.
ADDitude, Organic Gardening, Cook’s Illustrated, Threads, ReadyMade, Backyard Poultry, New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Sunset, Real Simple, Craft.
Kind of a magazine whore here.
OK:
O
O At Home
Parents
Parenting
Cookie
Entertainment Weekly
Black Enterprise
Inc.
Pink
Redbook
Working Mother
Family Fun
Lucky
I also buy All You and Real Simple. And if the $1 store has a Ladies Home Journal or Family Circle with a good recipe on the cover I’ll get it. I’m also waiting for Good Housekeeping which is a freebie from Adperk.com
Are you sorry you asked yet? ;^)
You’re the QUEEN! Holy smokes, woman! I have to say, I can totally relate though.
Oh yeah. You need to get to know blissfully caffeinated. See below …
@mel… holy schnikes!
i don’t subscribe to any magazines, but BB’s great aunt got him a subscription to Highlights. and my husband subscribes to playboy… our bathroom contains a mountain of playboy magazines which teeter atop the back of the toilet. nice, eh?
LOL — THAT’s the house I grew up in!
Real Simple (I switched from M.S. Living because I felt so inferior)
Cookie
Wine Enthusiast
Backpacker (I have no idea why I get this, seriously it just started arriving this summer)
Outdoor Life (again this has shown up with out ordering it, can we stop this one please)
Prevention (Although I didn’t order this one either, I am starting to enjoy it. I must be getting old.)
My dad gets Prevention — I actually kinda like it too.
Cooking Light (I stopped paying for it 2 years ago, but they keep sending it)
Love of Quilting
McCall’s Quilting
American Patchwork and Quilting
Quilter’s Home
Quilter’s World
Quilt Maker
Victoria
I get wild when new a new quilt magazine arrives. The kids know to leave mommy alone with her obsession.
Vanity Fair
US Magazine
Traditional Home (decorating, not politics!)
I get Parents and Cookie, but I rarely actually read either one of them. I SHOULD get People and US because I’m forever buying them at the grocery store. Gotta love all that useless gossip!
Us Weekly
Us Weekly
Us Weekly
Barack Obama’s book “Dreams from Father”
Classroom Direct catalog (umm..yeah, I’m not a teacher. I’m just a dork that loves looking through all the supplies and furniture made for classrooms. If I ever get rich, I am going order everything from that catalog to outfit my playroom for the kids.)
Stars! They’re just like us!
US Magazine is the BEST.
Us Weekly [blush]
Real Simple
Lucky
Highlights for Kids – for the kids, of course. I’m not the one trying to find everything wrong with the picture on the back cover or anything.
Us Weekly
People
Family Fun
Popular Science
Lego Magazine
TV Guide
Magazines that my husband thinks I subscribe to:
None.
Magazines that I actually subscribe to:
Domino (and I anxiously await every awesome issue)
Better Homes and Gardens
In Style
Lucky
Magazines that I sometimes subscribe to:
Vanity Fair
Rolling Stone
Martha Stewart
Magazines that my mom sends me gift subscriptions to:
Readers Digest
Magazines that show up even though I know I never subscribed to them:
Parents
Magazines that I should subscribe to because I buy them every week at the grocery store:
US Weekly
Magazines that I quit subscribing to because they were making me feel bad about myself:
Vogue
Love this topic! Fun!
YOU need to get to know Mel, a Dramatic Mommy. See above.
O
Outside (a gift subscription from my dad)
Parenting (just started showing up)
Health (my favorite)
And you?
Well, the weekend IS supposed to be all about YOU guys, but okay. If you insist. 🙂
Cookie (the BEST BEST BEST parenting mag EVER.)
Money
Fly Fisherman (My dad gets me this every year. We’re a fishing family. Which I LOVE. Reading about it though … meh.)
Wondertime
Ode
Highlights Hidden Pictures (This is an awesome mag for interaction with your kids.)
Occasionally, when I’m feeling flush I’ll subscribe to:
Smithsonian
The Week
I stopped subscribing to fashion mags. Because it’s just not as important to me anymore.
I stopped subscribing to home magazines. Because they made me want things I couldn’t have.
I throw away the obscene number of catalogs I receive (unless it’s kids catalogs). Again, because I got tired of WANTING. Do you know how liberating it is not to WANT so much?
My guilty pleasure and shameful vice is US Weekly. I refuse to subscribe because I’d just feel TOO guilty. But I pick it up and the store a few times a month.
And I give the following gift subs:
National Geographic to Poppy
Country Home to Grammy
Mothering
and
Wondertime
And Pottery Barn if that counts?
Our household gets :
Entrepreneur magazine
Family Fun
Simple Scrapbooks
Cooking Light
People
Beverage Enthusiast
Cookie
Us Weekly
Midwest Living
That is it I think! We don’t even get a chance to read all of them, I don’t even think I have cracked the cover of the scrapbook mags. We also get a 3 or 4 local magazines a month that are free publications. Lots of wasted paper!!!
I don’t subscribe to it, but UsWeekly is the best shitter mag evah.
Agreed.
I subscribe to:
National Geographic
Atlantic Monthly
Time
Horticulture
Cooking Light
Landscape Architect & Specifier News
None of these are ever in the bathroom. The bathroom is for activities.other than reading. 🙂
Used to subscribe to People but cancelled because it made me feel shallow. But now I buy it pretty much every time I’m at the grocery store, so who wins, really?
Now I just get Parenting (because I’m totally clueless and need as much help as I can get), and Reader’s Digest (which I’ve been getting for about 8 years but HAVE NEVER PAID FOR OR SUBSCRIBED TO. I do not know how this happened. It’s like they’re trying to FORCE me into AARP territory long before my time).
I subscribe to
Cookie
and
Essence
both were free. I used to get Parents but that ended. I like the freebies. Mostly because I rarely read the whole mag and why waste my money?
Magazines I subscribe to: None
Magazines I slide under the cereal boxes and broccoli at the checkout line: National Enquirer, US, OK!, In Style.
I’m so down with the tabloid shame. The flabby swimsuit bodies and no makeup issues are a MUST.
We had rewards left over from a credit card that we closed. So instead of bringing the choices of subscriptions home for me to pick out (I would have chosen “InStyle,” “Real Simple,” “People”), my husband picks out “Horse Illustrated,” “Dwell,” “Architectural Digest,” and “bon appetit.” Horse Illustrated? What in the world? We don’t have a horse!
Real Simple
None.
Catalogues are my friend.
I look at the pictures and make up my own stories!
Don’t want to give too much away, but you’ve all mentioned THREE mags I used to work for! One of them I even helped launch! WOOT WOOT!
I don’t subscribe to anything. I’m a check out lane impulse magazine shopper.
I’ve got something for you over at my place.
Real Simple (which is kinda funny, if you know me)
O (becuse someday she’s gonna build a house for me)
Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food (actually lots of great quick and healthy recipes in there)
Martha Stewart Weddings (because I’m a wedding planner and I’m still clinging to the small hope that someday Andy wil break down and propose)
Down East & Natural Health
…and an embarassment of catalogs. (Seriously — Design Within Reach? WTF?)
I can totally relate to threeundertwo – I am addicted to quilting as well! We get:
Quilting Arts Magazine
Cloth Paper Scissors
American Quilter
Quilting Quarterly
Love of Quilting
Cooks Country
Cooks Illustrated
Tropical Fish Hobbyist
Car and Driver (hubby)
Maximum PC (hubby)
Living Buddhism
Uh – that’s all 🙂
I get my People and US Weekly fix when I visit my sister as she get those.
As for this house, we get:
Outside
Parents
Family Fun
and loads of catalogs I like to peruse during my morning potty time!!!
Fun post!!
I, surprisingly, don’t subscribe to any magazines/catalogues. But if I did (and these are ones I pick up at the check-out line, Borders, etc):
-People
-US Weekly
-Real Simple
-Self
-IKEA (for life!)
-Pottery Barn
Any of my friends will tell you–I pretty much can’t resist grabbing a People, wherever I am, when I see a new issue out. And I save them. Why? Don’t ask me!
Ok, clearly, I’m not the most “magazine educated person” but here’s my list of what I pay for but never read:
Me:
Glamour (actually, I stopped paying like 2 years ago, but they still send it to me)
Montana Magazine
National Geographic
Martha Stewart Weddings (for my business)
Hubby Bee:
PC Gamer (NNNEERRRDDD)
ESPN
Oh man, I love magazines. There are some great ones listed here. I had to go cold turkey a few years ago but now I’m thinking about subscribing to some again. Real Simple keeps trying to lure me in, but I remember being one of those snotty people when it first came out (“Isn’t a magazine about buying stuff to keep life simple an oxymoron?”) and now I WILL NOT GIVE IN. But it’s so damn pretty.
We only get (in order of increasing boringness) Fine Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding, and the Journal of Light Construction (seriously…SNOOZE) for my husband’s job. Oh, and Playboy. Which I read cover to cover every month.
I’m thinking about resubscribing to Bookmarks, but it made me feel bad about how little I read.
Ahem….
Country Living
Flare
Chatelaine
Prevention
Self
….I used to also subscribe to Todays Parent and Parents…but somehow, we out-grew them….
Kids have a crapload of gift subscriptions. Dunno which ones. Penthouse? Maybe.
Chas gets some golf ones, The Nation (yeah, he’s a Pinko Commie Bastard and I love him), ESPN maybe? and The New Yorker. I used to read The New Yorker, which I love, but now I read only the internet.
NOT kidding.
No mags for me.
call me weird, i only get digital scrapbooking. hubby gets dirt rider. son gets national geo for kids. i check out O, Real Simple, Bon Appetit, Martha, and in style from the library simply for the ad inspiration. i rarely read the content, except the masthead. it always intrigues me. i mainly look at the designs and think about how to translate them to my scrapbook pages and card designs.
i’m way too practical. i hate spending money on paper i’m going to throw away. but i love browsing in them.
Magazine subscriptions are like Lays Potato Chips…you can’t have just ONE.
You start out easily enough perusing the checkstand 17 Magazine when you’re a tween, and before you know it, Aunt Wilhelmina has gotten you your very own subscription. Not to be outdone by Aunt Wilhelmina, Aunt Gertrude gets your a subscription to Teen Beat AND TigerBeat!
Aunt Meta on the other hand grumbles under her breath about how those old hags (her sisters, naturally) have no culture and makes sure you have a lifetime (and I do mean LIFETIME, I am in my 25th year of getting this) subscription to National Geographic.
This went on for years and years, and as the old Dutch aunts died, so did the subscriptions…except for National Geographic. My LIFETIME subscription has followed me through 22 states, 4 continents and more moves than I can count.
So it should be no small surprise that the following can be leafed through in our loo at any given time:
National Geographic
Vogue
Cosmopolitan
New Yorker
Variety
GAVIN (for us broadcast dweebs)
Radio Magazine
Q
Spin
Rolling Stone
Bike
Snowboarder
People
Down East Magazine
New England Living
Parenting
Family Circle
Country Living (we have never subscribed but it just keeps coming and coming)
Reader’s Digest
And some various British mags the hubby can’t live without on this side of the pond.
I’ve written for two of the above magazines and will probably keep receiving them until the day I die…or longer.
Wow. They really make that many different Quilting Magazines? Hehehe.
I have a free subscription to Entertainment Weekly for signing up with Netflix, and that’s about it for this broke Single Mom.
However, since I bought my dildo from a catalog, I now receive stupid porn mail. GRRR.
I’ve been getting Entertainment Weekly since 1997.