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Title: Do you buy/read newspapers?
Post by: camellia0 on March 15, 2018, 10:23:42 pm
I have not done this in years. I keep getting offers for subscriptions to newspapers. I guess there are people who still like the actual paper.
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Post by: jwkelly on March 16, 2018, 12:12:43 am
No !!! What a waste of money in this age. Add to that in my area we recycle paper so newspapers and mags are easy to come by for free and the local library too.
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Post by: sbenkoski on March 16, 2018, 06:29:33 am
The local news paper gives a free year when anyone moves to my town.  I get the old ones from a friend just to wash windows with.
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Post by: judylucas on March 16, 2018, 07:44:37 am
No I do not get the newspaper   get news on line
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Post by: adriarobi on March 16, 2018, 08:00:06 am
Absolutely online.  A lot more info, and you can search and get the information you are looking for.

I expect that could be an industry that fades away.  Of course not everyone has the internet....

 :rose:









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Post by: jwkelly on March 16, 2018, 01:47:23 pm
I love magazines though,once made 500 dollars on Ebay when I found a hundred of these 1980's mags tossed  out for recycling(some magazine called "Seventeen".  Ppl loved them and that was when Ebay was King and easy as well as Paypal.)
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Post by: NRAJOE on March 16, 2018, 02:28:03 pm
8 gun magazine subcriptions and 3 automobile mags....plus a few free ones from survey sites... 8)
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Post by: bigfoot951 on March 16, 2018, 06:38:18 pm
I would think the only ones who still read them are the older generations.  Even if I were to look at one it would only be the sports section.  I never have read the paper and certainly won't be starting now.
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Post by: hkckk5 on March 16, 2018, 07:09:52 pm
I don't read the paper but I clip any coupons of products I use. We have a subscription because my husband prefers to read the newspaper verses reading it online.
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Post by: ancmetro on March 16, 2018, 10:14:01 pm

      My newspaper is free!
      And I read notices, articles and news.
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Post by: kdemers0 on March 17, 2018, 04:09:19 pm
Nope not with the internet lol
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Post by: ktheodos on March 17, 2018, 04:32:36 pm
nope - none that I pay for anyway - only the ones that I get in mail for free that I don't sign up for...lol...a waste of time/$ in my opinion.
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Post by: pectacon on March 18, 2018, 02:44:58 pm
Nah, we cancelled ours several years ago to save money, and because the paper was dwindling down to nothing worth reading anyway. Not much need for it anymore with internet.
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Post by: aflyingmonkey on March 18, 2018, 03:57:56 pm
Yes. We get the Sunday paper of two papers for the ads & crossword puzzles.  Groupon had a deal going for $10 for two years of Sundays.    :)
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Post by: rghvac69 on March 18, 2018, 04:45:11 pm
I buy the local paper once in a while, but most of the time I read the news on the net.
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Post by: renee10 on March 18, 2018, 04:54:04 pm
I don't have a subscription to the paper but I do on occasion buy a copy.
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Post by: nmbrown863 on March 18, 2018, 07:54:52 pm
Not so much. My husband will buy a newspaper ever now and then and I may flip through it.
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Post by: potluck6 on March 19, 2018, 12:54:18 am
Just the sunday paper for cpns read some of it not much tv or online is so easy. Don't see how they're still in business. Also hate the mess it leaves on the couch.
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Post by: shawnix on March 19, 2018, 09:24:03 am
I don't buy newspapers. Just about all new is on line now. Seems like a waste of money these days unless you don't have internet access.
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Post by: ghunter on March 19, 2018, 12:41:07 pm
Sometimes on a Sunday for the coupons
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Post by: vickysue on March 19, 2018, 02:27:16 pm
I live in a very small town, and our newspaper is so high for what we get and only comes out once a week, so I but one if I want to see what an article is about that I am interested in, they have no coupons.  Or I will read it when I go out to my fathers, he gets one every week. But he rarely goes to town. We pick up most anything he needs and take it out. He is  now blind  in one eye and not  really comfortable driving, except when he goes to the doctor and he can take  a roundabout way  with little traffic. So it id good for him to have the newspaper.
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Post by: dwiley11 on March 19, 2018, 02:30:44 pm
i only get my news online
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Post by: alarisracing on March 25, 2018, 01:21:45 pm
Do not buy or read the newspaper.
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Post by: ruevouge on March 25, 2018, 11:35:50 pm
I just recently started back reading magazines, it's pretty much the same ol same ol, too many ads and not enough of the rest when it comes to content, and ones with good reading content are hard to come by....so it seems at least.
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Post by: surveygrabber on March 26, 2018, 12:38:26 am
I used to but not anymore. I just did not have the time to read them.
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Post by: dsawan on March 26, 2018, 02:41:34 am
i read it at work
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Post by: MichelleHW101 on March 26, 2018, 03:21:34 am
I get the Washington Post, as I live in VA.  I don't think it's a waste of money because I prefer to have the headline and article right there than in the case of a website where I only get headlines then click on what I want and get stuck with a zillion pop up ads running along the side.  I will go look deeper into articles on line but to use it as my main source, no.  I get too frustrated with website navigation, not to want a paper.   
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Post by: catchow on March 26, 2018, 09:41:15 am
I have a subscription to the paper for Sunday papers only, mainly this is for coupons only lol, But its cheaper for the subscription then to have to run down town 5 miles away and buy a paper
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Post by: articx on March 27, 2018, 08:26:01 am
No, I do not buy or read newspapers.
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Post by: stokeman455 on March 28, 2018, 09:00:21 am
 Do not have to buy them. I'll pick up news papers from the free ones in town.
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Post by: demaina on March 28, 2018, 12:35:16 pm
I don't read the newspaper, but I think we are still receiving one.  In the age of the internet, everything is already available, it just about finding it.  There's so much stuff out there to read already that a newspaper would just be one more thing I'd probably forget about.
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Post by: lhz123 on March 28, 2018, 03:36:24 pm
No, just read online. Free and easy.
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Post by: InfuseMe1 on March 28, 2018, 08:21:10 pm
can't remember how many years since I actually bought one - everything online is so much more expansive and easily available  :thumbsup:
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Post by: 12amos on March 29, 2018, 12:25:00 am
Years ago I would buy and subscribe to the newspaper but now I read all of my news online.  :) :)
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Post by: beatsdrop on April 01, 2018, 02:24:25 pm
Haven't done so in years.
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Post by: dsosnowski06 on April 01, 2018, 02:58:53 pm
We only buy the Sunday paper and that is only if the Dollar Store has them still in stock by the time we remember and go get it.  I look at the ads online and watch the news daily so really don't need it.  My husband love the transportation section
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Post by: makeblessed on April 01, 2018, 04:25:45 pm
No, I read everything online! that would not be a good use of my limited funds in this day and age of technology, but I still see them so I guess their are still lots of people who do.
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Post by: gaby_ro_2004 on April 02, 2018, 07:08:43 am
Not anymore.I used to but i quit 8years ago.
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Post by: ljrjess69 on April 02, 2018, 11:44:03 am
i dont buy it ,,not worth what it cost.....
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Post by: Sendmicheck on April 03, 2018, 11:52:23 am
Every week I purchased the local news paper.
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Post by: mrisha on April 04, 2018, 01:01:30 pm
I haven't purchase or read a newspaper in a lot of years.  The newspaper can be read for free on the Net.