Grit magazine

[Charleen]

Anyone subscribe to this?

I just received a postcard in the mail that we can recieve a free trial issue. Then one year (6 issues) for $14.95. Apparently this is "The Grit" magazine that I remember from years and years ago because the cover reads "America's Rural Lifestyle Magazine for 124 years".

Anyone get this nowadays? Do you like it?

[Windy in Kansas]

While I haven't seen "Grit" for a long time, be sure to check how frequent the publication of it is.

Capper's Weekly used to be a great weekly newspaper for those that didn't have time to ready a full newspaper. Now it is published bi-weekly so the news in it is stale before one reads it.

[Charleen]

It's not so much the cost of subscription or frequency, I'm more concerned with how the publication is today compared to the one I remember from years ago. Has Grit also become 'yuppie' (for lack of a better word) like MEN?

[Paul Wheaton]

I got the invite and got the "free" issue. The bill arrived before the magazine.

I would like to see a magazine like this come out that put inte-grit-y (sorry, couldn't resist) ahead of marketing. Why not just send a real free issue. Along with an offer to subscribe? Instead, I have to subscribe and if I don't like it I have to write "cancel" on the bill and send it to them.

There was one article in it that I liked - but it was on a topic I felt I had already figured out. The rest seemed pretty weak.

I'm cancelling.

[Paul Wheaton]

Another issue arrived and it was just as weak: toys to buy for christmas, recipes, fluff, puff, fluff, filler .... there was one article about the needs for animal shelter - that was the closest thing to substance, but I felt like I didn't get a lot out of it.

[tammy from wv]

I agree with Paul. I remember the GRIT of old and this isn't it! I really didn't enjoy it. I am not going to resubscribe. If I were you, I wouldn't waste my money.

[busybee870]

I used to sell the Grit when i was 10, it sold for 25 cents a copy, I didnt know it still existed.