Magazine Rack

[barry1010]

Have you got one or have they gone the way of telephone tables and tv cabinets?

[MissTerious2]

We've never had a TV cabinet. Our small TV sits amongst the b ooks and a few orname to on the lowest book shelf. We don't see a TV as furniture or something to hang on a wall. My mum had a huge TV cabinet. She was very proud of it.

[barry1010]

Did she ever close the doors to hide the tv? Useful when the tv only went on during the evening but pointless for many households these days.

Before lockdown we spent two weeks in a very upmarket apartment in Norfolk. I knew it was posh because it had a Qooker. A huge tv was on the wall above one of those modern, wide but low fires. Lovely Chesterfield suite. We could not watch tv without getting a crick in the neck. It was like watching a pub tv in the 1970s and the abgle made the picture look odd.
I really don't get the fad for hanging the tv high over the fire

[MissTerious2]

Barry, she had a huge garden and nothing at the back. She was just proud of her cabinet and apparently proud of her large oak corner bar in her dining room. My son now lives in her house and the lounge is now a music studio and the dining room a snug with a huge screen for films. She would be upset. And also her huge garden now has three new detached houses built at the bottom of it on a new road built running through it. Mum was lovely, but a bit of a Margot Leadbetter!

[MissTerious2]

Barry we have an inglenook. Definitely not a good place for a TV. I dont like TV to be the focal point of lounges, but apparently lots do.

[MissTerious2]

Yes she closed the doors on the cabinet!

[Hazlinny]

Yes .... find it useful beside my chair ... diary, address book, any letters requiring reply, quizzes/info, TV magazine and whatever I'm currently reading.

[DTCwordfan]

No - but a large drawer houses my back issues of Private Eye....hundreds of them.

[roadman]

i have not got one no i dont read magazines let alone buy them and store them

the answerbank is my magazine always updating always something new to read a smart comment here some plonkers there

[barry1010]

roadman, so many things our parents had in their homes that are no longer in most households.
Very few have upright pianos, a companion set in front of the fire, the pulley in the kitchen....
And yet my mother's house was furnished in a very similar way as my grandmother's and her mother's.

[Tilly2]

No, no magazine rack. It went on it's way when I got fed up with it being crammed full of newspapers.

Now we buy only two newspapers at the weekend and one magazine monthly.

[barry1010]

I gave up buying newspapers years ago and we no longer get the free local papers (we used to get two a week). I really don't know how much longer the printed newspaper will survive

[MissTerious2]

I can honestly say we haven't bought any newspapers for years and years. Noone delivers here anyway. They never did. The last magazine I glanced through was when a kind lady passed one on to me in hospital. But the Airplane mag will always be arriving!