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amber03

I subscribe to one magazine I enjoy. It was my little treat from last year, which I will carry on with. Payment is taken every 6 months and is cheaper than if I bought it monthly. The good thing is once I have finished with it is I pass it onto my neighbour who in turn passes it onto her sister. X

Sun_Addict

Coffee machine is fine now. I stripped it down, washed everything then descaled it. Magazines have been my obsession since I was a child, started off with Twinkle via Jackie to present day. I have 4 on subscription, 2 of which I buy with my Tesco Clubcard points so no cost to me. Definitely much cheaper to subscribe especially if you can get a good deal, cancel when it’s due for renewal then get another deal for a year, this is what I do with the other 2.  I hate online magazines, tried them, not the same and you can’t read them in the bath. I really enjoy them so for me it’s a pleasure I don’t want to give up unless I really have to. 

milann

Do they still do magazine subscription with Tesco rewards? 

Hope you get the coffee machine sorted out and the decorations down. I can’t bring myself to take them down until the 6th January....I think it’s from when I was little and we added the 3 wise men to the crib on the 6th.....it was a bit of a ritual, then the crib was the last decoration to be taken down after tea on 6th. I’m not particularly religious now but I like to keep them up until the 6th if I can. There has been an odd year they’ve come down a bit earlier but it doesn’t feel right 😏😂 this year they didn’t go up until late so I’m making the most of them 😂😂

IzzyBee

I can remember been on pins waiting for my Jackie magazine still like a mag and can’t get away with online and the good food one is worth it and we have to have some pleasures 

dawnybabes

I ask for subscriptions for birthday presents - love a mag but wouldn’t buy them 

Sun_Addict

The decorations would’ve been coming down this weekend anyway as I’m back at work Monday. It doesn’t look that different to be honest as I keep fairy lights up all year round. The Christmas tree has been replaced by the twig tree which had been temporarily housed in the kitchen.

Looked back at this time last year on my diary and my main goal was to get back on my feet when I had the plaster off. Mr SA also had a strange virus which made him very poorly, high temperature, cough, struggling to breathe and no sense of taste, took him weeks to shake it off and at one stage I thought he had pneumonia.  I now think this was very likely an early case of COVID. I had it too but just the cough and high temperature. At the time I’d been back and forth to the hospital with my leg and remember sitting in a very busy waiting room with a lot of people coughing. Little did I know ...

ladyholly

There have been quite a few reports of the "bug" that Mr SA had at that time including my neighbours but of course covid wasn't a thing then but the symptoms are so covid like you have to wonder. 

Seasidegal58

Sorry to read that Mr SA wrecked the coffee machine!😱
I like real magazines though I do read my newspaper online. I did try online magazine reading when I was first debt busting but I went back to paper. I like Woman & Home and Good Housekeeping and get round buying them by asking family to buy subscriptions as Christmas presents. Subscribing also makes MSE sense as you save so much and generally get an initial gift if you subscribe direct via the magazine. 

Another traditionalist here who takes down her deccies on Twelfth Night!
I think so many people must have had Covid around this time last year and didn't know it!  It certainly sounds like Mr SA definitely did!   

RelievedSheff

Sun_Addict said:

The decorations would’ve been coming down this weekend anyway as I’m back at work Monday. It doesn’t look that different to be honest as I keep fairy lights up all year round. The Christmas tree has been replaced by the twig tree which had been temporarily housed in the kitchen.

Looked back at this time last year on my diary and my main goal was to get back on my feet when I had the plaster off. Mr SA also had a strange virus which made him very poorly, high temperature, cough, struggling to breathe and no sense of taste, took him weeks to shake it off and at one stage I thought he had pneumonia.  I now think this was very likely an early case of COVID. I had it too but just the cough and high temperature. At the time I’d been back and forth to the hospital with my leg and remember sitting in a very busy waiting room with a lot of people coughing. Little did I know ...

Funny you say that. One of the lads at work had some of his friends over from China in October last year, they had "a cold" at the time.

Come November and December the whole office had a "bad cold" with a cough and bad chest that we could not get rid of.

Sun_Addict

I talk about the steep hills where I live. This is the steepest hill of them all and I used to live at the house on the top left. It was an absolute nightmare in winter, had to crawl up on hands and knees if it was snowy or icy. Even in summer you had to walk sideways to cross.