Poll: Do you, or anyone in your house, buy a newspaper?

Do you, or anyone in your house, buy a newspaper?

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GGizmo

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I've just been having a debate with the neighbour about the price of newspapers per week. They seem to be getting more expensive.

I found a webpage that shows all the prices of UK newspapers here;

http://jackiesnews.co.uk/newspaper-prices/

We're thinking of cutting down on them. But I'm wondering how many people here buy a newspaper? Do you get them every day, weekday and/or weekends?

I'm asking also because there was a thread a while back about magazines and who still buys magazines. I was in the minority in still buying one (though I don't these days).
 
Not purchased a paper in years, I don't need to when I've got a smartphone. My grandad on the other hand, walks up to his local paper shop every day, rain or shine to get his papers, he doesn't have a smartphone. Like many others, he's set in his way's and won't change.
 
I'm past 30 and I think I've bought probably 5 newspapers ever for myself. Think my parents might get it occasionally, and in laws once a week.
 
Nope. Never bought a paper for myself. What’s the point?

I remember when I was a kid, I’d go around to the local shop on a Sunday and get a pile of them and got to spend the change on sweets.

Parents don’t even bother with them now. They’re a thing of the past.
 
No, we don't buy newspapers because there's better things to clean the windows with and for the cat to **** in.

A few years ago we had a bet in work about how much percentage in cm squared was articles versus adverts. It was 87% adverts. That's hardly a news paper.
 
Yes the local paper, i live in rural Wales and we actually know some of the people in the paper and sometimes have family in there doing charity work, school photos etc....
 
Mysterae_ said:
No, we don't buy newspapers because there's better things to clean the windows with and for the cat to **** in.

A few years ago we had a bet in work about how much percentage in cm squared was articles versus adverts. It was 87% adverts. That's hardly a news paper.
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That's actually what the GCSE maths coursework used to be. It was also a word length comparison. We were taught early on, only thickos read the sun.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
Newsprint was always too small for me to read, so I've never bought a paper for myself.

I used to buy Mixmag and Future Music though, just for the cover CDs!
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I hope you've saved them, apparently some of them were right gems worth a few quid now!
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
Newsprint was always too small for me to read, so I've never bought a paper for myself.

I used to buy Mixmag and Future Music though, just for the cover CDs!
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I loved future music back in the 90’s. I was a teenager with little money and used to look longingly at the shiny synths like the JP8000, Prophecy, Trinity, Quasimudi Raven. I actually bought a JP8000 a few years back. I didn’t particularly need it, I just wanted to make a teenage dream come true. I had other teenage dreams but sadly couldn’t afford Denise Van Outen.
 
As a child "The Sunday papers" was a thing, as was taking the glass empties back to the Paper shop on a Sunday morning. Some of the papers had a comic in them for kids and the TV guide was always good to check what was on that week.

Not a chance I would buy one now, I do miss the ritual somewhat. However what else were you going to do, Sunday trading laws were still in place.
 
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