How is your magazine habit?
And...has it been effected by Pinterest?
I love magazines, I have some favorites saved from years ago.
I keep a stash of my favorite food ones with my cookbooks. Food Network, Bone Appetite and Tea Time are a few I have a hard time getting rid of. Many special issues from Taste of Home are also nestled in.
I have found over the years some publications get better and some get much worse, at least acccording to my tastes.
As time goes on my piles actually get smaller and more specific.
My husband has his pile and I have a place for currant issues.
We get most of them at very discounted rates, with Coke rewards and refusing to pay top dollar. I find only a couple I would pay $20 a year for- the rest I can live with or without.
Especially since Pinterest hit the scene!
I can look through a magazine and quickly decide weather or not it will have stay power, it better wow me or it is going back on the shelf.
With all the recipes and decorating tips, photos and blog posts, I would say my magazine habit has been reduced by 75%.
The one place I find I will spend the money is a good bookazine! Those $10-$15 no ad publications that fit exactly to my life style. Vintage Style and Flea Market mags are the best! This latest Spring 2013 is full of ideas, even compared to Pinterest.
I guess I would rather have a good lightweight "book" than a years full of ads and half interest articles.
So the question I would like to know is
Has Pinterest effected your magazine, book, or cookbook buying? If so how?
My favorite mags-
Flea Market Style
Vintage Style
Mary Jane's Farm
Food Network
Taste of Home
Romantic Home
Food and Wine
Tea Time
Yours??
blessings and thanks for visiting
10 comments:
Sweet Blessings to you!
Blogging has put a dent in my magazine time....i love surfing the net. I knew if I pinned that I'd be a goner, so I stay away from pinterest on purpose.
Was a joy to stop by and visit your place.
God bless,
d
Not buying the magazines much anymore. I picked up Country Living and flipped through it in the store. I had already seen all the photos on pinterest. Why bother to spend the money if I can see the same thing on pinterest?
Shannon- I used to be such a magazine junkie and got tons of magazines every month. Since blogging and the internet I cut way back. I buy 2 or 3 through the kids's school drive and that's it. I still love Romantic Homes and I still get Southern Living but so many others just don't interest me as much anymore. I have been weeding out magazines this past week! xo Diana
I don't do many magazines any more either. Not because of Pinterest, but because of the blogs. I'd much rather look at "real" before/after pictures, than magazines now. I still get a couple because, magazine sales is the fundraiser for my granddaughter's school. I will order from them. This year I ordered "This Old House", and "Reminesce". I love Romantic Home too and save them. I still have lots of mags I've saved from years ago, though I got rid of a lot too.
Significant decrease to my magazine subscriptions; I have 2 on Antiques, Jerry has several on Motor Homes and RV life, and I have one on Quilting; we keep Cuisine and Cooks. I used to accumulate them but decided I did not need to continue doing that and not being able to find what I might want to anyway, I'd just as soon look online. I bundle them up and donate them to our local library where there is a bin, many come and help themselves and these provide a good resource to be used by others. I have not been onto Pinterest, hardly have time to blog with our travels. I always admire your posts.
Shannon . . . this is an interesting question you pose regarding Pinterest/Magazines. I have noticed that the Internet, in general has lessened my "magazine addiction". Specifically, I would say that following bloggers, more than Pinterest, has taken the place of some of my magazine reading. Not that this is a great thing for our area (not too far from you), because we are a community built upon the manufacturer of coated magazine paper. EEEk! Market is down 20%.
Has Pinterest? Not much. Has the internet!? YES!
Magazines were habit forming for me. And...I would. I would spend the new stand/grocery check out prices for them.
I've stopped buying them since I've gotten more into the blogging, home blogs and stuff.
However-- I've won some great issues of magazines, that I'd never pay for. I also won a year subscription to FOLK. I won't be purchasing it when it runs out. But it was fun!
I don't have some of the modern technology, (lap top, smart phone, etc.) so I usually carry an old issue when traveling. For sitting in hospitals, etc. I DON'T TOUCH THOSE MAGAZINES!
The other thing? If I buy a magazine-- I get Flea Market Style- or my new favorite. Hobby Farms ... I like reading about CHICKENS!
THIS was fun. Pat
Interesting!
I love mags but I just live on the ones friends give me and/or read at my in-laws I really like Pinterest and the good thing whenever I like somtehimg I can always tear the page I mean pin it!
Cheers!
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i get free subscriptions through freebiz mag...they send me offers for a free subscription and i accept....i used to buy a new magazine every time i was in the checkout at the grocery store. whichever cover caught my attention. i'd get home and scan it front to back then never look at it again. i saw recently on a blog where someone takes great decorating ideas from mags and cuts it out and glues into a notebook. i'm going to do that with all my old mags that "i'll look through that one later" and never do :D
I definitely read a lot less magazines since reading blogs and getting Pinterest. I only really buy ones for recipes and knitting patterns these days.
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