best old-stylers magazines

ladygrey_2

years ago magazines were full of helpful tips, recipes etc for the housewife/homemaker,
now the shelves are full of mags about celebrities and true stories,

I still buy Woman's Weekly and Prima and love the tips in them

are there any other mags old stylers can reccomend that would be worth paying out for as the advice in them is old style and useful

moggins

I haven't seen many others that are very useful either, I subscribe to Prima because you always get the free pattern inside when you subscribe but I did get it on special offer. Good Housekeeping is another good one but some of their ideas are a little expensive.

It's just not something that is fashionable these days - housekeeping skills are becoming a lost art.

Glad

I've been getting Family Circle for years
I love their recipes and use their xmas recipes year after year
I've gathered a lot of knitting patterns from magazines over the years and keep them in folders, some of them looked very old-fashioned at one time but seem to be back in fashion again now so glad I kept them

moggins

Oh dear, just googled to find out if I could subscribe to Family Circle and found that it's folding after 42 years of publication, guess what I said is true about dying skills and people are more interested in the comings and goings of so called celebrities

apprentice_tycoon

I agree that the magazines these days are all celebrity rubbish and I haven't found a magazine that 'fits' me any more, I used to get Living. Family Circle, Prima and Essentials and I feel now to have out grown them in a strange way.

Maybe as I've got older I'm looking for something else and the nearest I get to it is Good Housekeeping but as Moggins says they don't skimp on the money, most of their ideas are too expensive, they often have articals that encourage you to save xxxxx per year but we, and any Old Styler have done them all years ago.

My favourite magazine to buy just occasionally is Country Living, it has very little to do with my lifestyle situation but I just look at it and dream......

Glad

moggins wrote:

Oh dear, just googled to find out if I could subscribe to Family Circle and found that it's folding after 42 years of publication, guess what I said is true about dying skills and people are more interested in the comings and goings of so called celebrities

I'm really upset about this

it's one magazine that really does keep me going all week

moggins

Sorry Glad, I didn't mean to upset you, I just found it really sad as I think with a little different marketing, magazines like this could find a whole new audience in people like us who'd never heard of it before. There must be more people who need inspiration around the home.

twink

i am sad to hear about family circle too, have had it for years when you had to get it at the supermarket checkout, dd gets prima and red, i find the bbc easy cook mag has good recipes

thriftlady_2

I'm sad about Family Circle too, haven't bought it for ages but my mum used to have it when I was a child. I used to get Goodhousekeeping which sounds like it should be very OS but isn't at all.

I read my mum's Country Living but although I like the lifestyle it promotes I think it is a very money-driven lifestyle and has little to do with real life.

I don't think there is a perfect mag for us:(

Miss_Cinnabon

Found this in relation to family circle stopping http://uk.news.yahoo.com/08082006/325/family-circle-close-uk.html

larmy16

I rarely buy magazines, just let my eldest sister spend the money on them. She brings us a pile of Elle, Cosmo, Marie Claire - if there is a Prima I will look, the rest I cannot bring myself to look at. It is all so far from my pschyce!

One I occasionally do get though if I am ill or under the weather. That is Take a Break. It has a tips page ( almost on a par with Viz!) and boot sale tales - some of the stories can be quite tragic or amusing. It just goes to show that ordinary people have as exciting lives as the so called "celebs". The celeb mags, I just flick the pages and there, done in thirty seconds!!!