I just read things online these days...and even then it's mostly along the Kotaku, Cracked, Gizmodo and Lifehacker rather than girly things and "diet secrets." My mom is a diet magazine addict...she'll pick up 3 or 4 at a time from the checkout lanes, try the "miracle diets" for a day or two, then get bored and buy new ones.

There are so many magazines I don't buy anymore for one reason or another, mostly because the content has changed. Good Housekeeping, Cosmo (although, I will pick up one every now and then) First for Women, Prevention just to name a few. The ones I do get regularly are Shape, Weight Watchers, More, and Ladies Home Journal...only get the Ladies Home Journal because someone bought me a subscription.

Its not up everyone alley but I LOVE the magazines 'Good Old Days' and 'Reminisce'

well, I am in my early 20s. I would never get a Cosmo subscription because like you said, it's the SAME thing over and over again. It's funny actually. I'll buy a Cosmo once a year, usually when I feel sick and just want a cozy comfort read (I don't know, Cosmo seems to be it for me) and it's the same stuff every single time. But I mean, you can only say so much about sex & love right? So I don't necessarily blame them.

I do subscribe to women's health and Fitness magazines as well as Shape. Those are cool but they are all the same. Interchangable really. I like the workouts in them though and the random new facts they share and new products that come out. These subscriptions I got for free from doing surveys online. If I was to pay, Id only get one of the three. Probably Women's health.

I also subscribe to Glamour which is okay because it has more about beauty and fashion just for inspiration but I never really read it, it's more of a "looking" visual magazine. Same with Vogue. Both of those were free too. I don't like Vogue though that's way too high fashion and I can't afford 99% of the stuff in the magazine.

This thread is great - I read the first post thinking how true every sentence was! Right now I occasionally buy 'girlie' magazines like Glamour if I'm reeled in by something on the cover but that's usually the only section of it I read and the rest feels like such a chore. I also notice the ladies they feature in their real-life stories are much younger than me (and I'm 'only' 30!) and find myself being a crabby old woman screeching 'oh please, you think that's a problem' in my head. I know, I know.

I find Time and Rolling Stone tick all the boxes for me at the moment. I don't read either cover to cover but there's no 'remember me from <enter long-forgotten tv show here>...I lost 150lbs on fresh air and salt!' (sarcasm intended ) stories cluttering the pages.

Try Canadian Living! Honestly, it used to be much more bland and not anything I would ever be interested in but I think they've gone thru a major re-vamp. It has recipes, clothing (stuff you can actually get here), health, and some pretty good articles.