I glean information from everywhere, and magazines are one source I enjoy. I subscribe to only a few of the ones I read. The rest I read at the library. They've been the inspiration for new techniques, and reminders of things I'd once done and forgotten along the way of living.
The ones I subscribe to are:
Family Handyman
Better Homes and Gardens
Fine Cooking
I absolutely adore Family Handyman! I have learned so much about home repairs and maintenance, painting inside and outside, and when to call a repair person, among other things - and simple instructions for making ingenious devices for storage and organizing.
Better Homes and Gardens has articles on home organizing as well as paint color selections that I clip and keep. You never know when you need to paint something a new color!
Fine Cooking has the best culinary information I've encountered. Every journal offers up new insights, new explanations of how recipes work, and new ways to cook. There's not been a single issue Ive regretted getting so I finally broke down and subscribed to it.
These other magazines I read at the library and if an issue is useful, I may go buy it, but I haven't convinced myself I need to subscribe to them.
Outside
Backpacker
Mental Floss
Wired
Pink
Real Simple
Men's Health
Martha Stewart Living
Lilith
Mother Jones
Skeptic
New Scientist
Scientific American
Science News
Seed
Byte
Women's Health
Hobby Farms
Hobby Farms Home
Herb Quarterly
This Old House
Herb Companion
Organic Gardening
Food Network
Threads
BBC Knowledge
Wilderness Way
Backwoodsman
Backwoods Home
Survivalist
Mother Earth News
Discover
Backwoods Home
Popular Science
Popular Mechanics
Most of these are self-explanatory. None of them offer enough consistency of content for me to be willing to buy each issue - there are sometimes entire issues of things that I'm not interested enough in to want to own that issue. Part of it is that some of them cover material I'm already so familiar with that it's not offering
me anything new -
your mileage may vary.
And I admit, sometimes, when I do buy one of these magazines, I do so for the pretty pictures.
And then there are a few websites.
Survival Quarterly - print and online
Complete Survivalist - webinars
Pioneer Living - online
Practical Survival - online
I know, a bit heavy on the doomsday and outdoor survival stuff, but there's not a whole lot out there for stay-at-home, city and suburban, never-gonna-get-me-camping type people. And sometimes, they have an idea that can be modified for cities and suburbs, for those who prefer close neighbors and community.
So I glean where I can, add it to what I already know, try it out, and then pass it along.