Have a word with meself!!!

sportbeth

Another one to try (I'm a big holy-moly and popb***h fan myself) is digitalspy.co.uk. The forums have links to the best online celeb gossip stuff on there.

Another way i weaned myself of was a subscription to real magazine (£1 a copy every fortnight I think). It gets delivered to my door and I look forward to recieving it now. Another subscription I have is with Now magazine and I get that for a pittance as well.

Another way is to swap gossip mags with your mates. A lot of them are regurgitated, last week the top mag had a fat celebs article and 2 of the pictures were over a year old! So why not save up a stack of your subscription mags, then once you've got 10 of them, swap with a mate and start reading them.

Only other thing I did to moneysave on my celeb mag obsession was when I got into sudoku. I got totally obsessed with it and you can go into loads of websites and print them off. That's half an hour on a train or bus journey's entertainment for free!

mountainofdebt

Well I'm addicted to diet magazines (don't laugh) and really have to steel myself from not splashing out on a load of them each month!

I even wandered around Tesco's a fortnight ago with one in my basket telling myself that I'd been a good girl and that I deserved it. However when I got my stuff out I looked at it ans realised I could live without it but I could also live alot better without the debt I could pay off if I didn't buy the magazine.

So I left it there and instead paid the £3 off my credit card that I'm trying to pay off by the end of the year.

I've also thought of an ideal present my mum can buy me for my birthday next month - yes you've guessed it - a magazine subscription - well it beats a load of stuff I don't really need!

AMILLIONDOLLARS

Why not spend your lunch break in WHSmiths. It so busy there at lunch times no will notice you have a good read. Then put it back, if your skimming there should be no problems do this:D

scottishspendaholic

Hey,

Have you tried your local library - mine has the biggies like Vogue and Marie Claire etc that you can borrow. Not all libraries do though...

To add to your list of websites - why not take a look at British Glamour Daily Gossip - I like the gossip and the layout. Its only updated on weekdays though - http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/daily_gossip/default.aspx.

I would also second the idea of taking out a subscription - I pay for one for my OH for a music magazine - its £7.50 every 3 months and the magazine is £5 a month cover price! My friends/mum can be really generous with their magazines too so I like the idea of swopping piles...

Good luck

scottishspendaholic x

niceshoes_2

I too used to have the same obsession with magazines. It all stopped when I got a yearly subscription of New Woman for christmas. It was a lovely surprise getting the new edition every month delivered, and certainly helped to curb the problem.

I also took advantage of ordering 3 editions of say Cosmopolitan, Company etc for £1. The company take the £1 and you just cancel the direct debit. you can then resign up to take advantage of the offer again. This is a massive thread about this on one of the shopping threads - if you do a search you'll find it.

Combined with the subscsription and the offer, it really has stopped me spending so much money on glossy magasines, and I have slowly come to realise that they are full of the same stuff month after month, that i no longer want them anymore!

jesster_2

yep if you really can't curb the habit subscriptions are definitely the way to go.

OR - join up with friends to buy them on a kind of rota basis and then swap. We have a heat rota, so now I buy one mag every three weeks! bargain.

OR - every time you go to buy a magazine, don't. But put the money into a pot, and after a month see what's in there. In a month it's probably enough for a facial or something .. and over a year, it could be enough for a cheap holiday or weekend away. I'm a real believer in adding up all the little bits of money to see the full effect!

bank_of_slate

You can sign up to free weekly gossip emails from Glamour and Handbag.
Both have lots of great offers and competitions too!

For your birthday could someone buy a subscription for you?
...Linda xx

monkeylugs

You are so in my gang!!!!

Why not join a freecycle group and post a message saying you would be happy to take on people's women's magazines (as long as you promise faithfully to recycle them when you have read them all!!).

Are there any local friendly hairdressers who you could "swap" your magazines with? I can't imagine they would be bothered as long as they were getting some in return?

Also have you read the thread about magazines offers? Sometimes you can get 3 issues for £1, £3 or £6, magazines like Tatler, She, Zest and things like that. I subscribe to "Now" £9.99 every so often and as I don't buy a daily newspaper I generally avoid them now so don't have the temptation. Also I quickly run past the magazine sections......

I am a magazine lover too!

melancholly

I know that my sister has bought magazines from charity shops for about 50p - monthly ones, a couple of weeks after they come out, but with that and the library, she never pays for them!

cha97michelle

I swap with my family. I bought my 2 sisters each a magazine subscription for christmas, and one for myself.

I also have been saying to myself, if the health mags were worth it i would have lost weight. I've been buying them for 5 years and getting fatter. What i should really do is exercise instead of sitting on my bum reading.

Michelle