I get my county's rural, local newspaper. The stories are all relevant to my personal experience and typically quite well written. Local politics, goings on and such. It's nice to have a little piece of life in the 80s back.

I tried a few years ago but couldn't get over the absurd amount of advertising and dumb bullshit so I canceled my subscription. I would love to spend Sunday mornings drinking coffee and reading the paper like an old-timey person but the paper is at least 90% garbage. The 10% that isn't garbage is poorly edited and often has typos. It felt like I was being insulted every time I opened it up.

Me, getting the monthly issue of The Onion (America's finest news source, btw): hello

I'm so old I remember reading the ingredients on the shampoo bottle because my brother took the bathroom joke book with him after pooping.

I'm so old I remember grabbing The Onion from the free dispenser outside my apartment building.

I'm so old I get a PSA test annually and need to schedule a colonoscopy

I do regret not ordering the matching embroidered "Face" and "Ass" towels from an ad in The Onion when I had a chance.

I'm so old, I was long an adult before people started not reading the newspaper. I subscribed to the newspaper, and it was delivered to my house by a kid on a bicycle. I found my wife through a personal ad in a newspaper, a wife I've been divorced from for 16 years, now. I got all but my most recent job through want ads in the newspaper.

Y'all aren't old for just remembering when other people read the newspaper. Y'all aren't old at all.

Brosef, I remember when I used to read the newspaper. The $1.25 to get the Sunday paper at the 7-11 because ain't no way I would scrounge and spend 5 quarters in the machine. That's for laundry money!

I'm so old, I remember using newspaper to wipe in the outhouse. Also Sears catalogue. Worst toilet paper ever. It didn't clean anything, just moved stuff around.

When I was in high school they still delivered newspapers to machines near bus stops. Sometimes I would drop a quarter in to get one so I had something to read on the bus. It was mostly for comics, sports, and current events. When I was done I would leave it on the bus or drop it off in the hallway at school.

Gone are those days.

I'm so old I still get the newspaper daily.

I remember reading newspapers. 🙃

I still read the news paper.

Used to remember reading the comic strips in the funday times.

As I got older I used to read the Hexham Courant to see who'd been arrested I used to go to school with

I'm young (mid 20s) but I've started reading my local newspaper. I've been trying to live a slower life and I'm cutting out social media. I even limit lemmy to 30 minutes a day.

Those were the days. Also, remember when we got catalogs in the mail?

My first job was delivering them.

I'm so old I remember being young.

Dunno where you live but even old genZ would remember that.

Crossword puzzles should be done on actual paper using ink, as our caveman ancestors did and as the gods intended

My mom still gets my dad his newspaper daily.

That smell and sound a newspaper makes when you do the traditional *thwap when you first open it. Not many experiences like it in the world.

People these days say tablet kids and instagram parents are insufferable… but like, we had to read the back of the newspaper you were hiding behind at breakfast while screaming something about Jimmy Carter being a soft bitch.

I had a paper route my man. It was decent money for a kid who could barely drive. A shitton of people cared a lot about their newspaper back then and would complain if it was wet or on the grass or wherever.

UK, my dad would go to the cornershop to buy The Mirror.

I was wondering what he was doing with all these mirrors.

Turns out The Mirror is a newspaper.

I've seriously considered getting a newspaper. I know I wouldn't read it every day, but it would probably help ground me into my local community better and keep me a bit more sane.

I remember asking to borrow my parents’ newspaper so I could use my silly putty to make copies of pictures.

Also reading comics, and reusing the newspaper so I could make papier mâche (or other crafts) out of it. I learned to weave by using strips of newspaper to make a mat.

There is an old guy at the deli near me that reads the paper with his coffee.

I also remember being asked to write about current events in school and had to turn to the newspaper to find something current.

Read the funnies every day.

Did that as a kid. Every day.

Newspapers were still pretty popular in many places up to early 2010s. Some people still read them today.

I delivered newspapers for people to read (shit, slave wage job btw, even for a kid)

We still get a "local rag" that we peruse every Sunday morning. Oh no, John Meyer has died and the Hauptstraße is closed again.

People still read the newspaper at the bakery cafe (they take the Badische Zeitung).

I remember when radios were called transistors.

What's interesting is how everything merged into the same thing online. For example, ABC News is the news division of the TV network ABC. USA Today is a newspaper. KTLA is a radio station. All those websites look pretty similar today. They all have text-only stories like a newspaper. They all have video stories.

You'd think maybe TV stations would say "we're not going to do text-only stories" or newspapers would say "we're not going to do video". I wonder if we're ever going to get to a time when there is a distinction between them again.

I'm eking out into oldness. Don't remind me.

Twice daily

im old enough for my parents to be sending me to go get the paper and sometimes I would be at a friends when their parents wanted them to and went with on the trip.

I would come home from school and read the paper.

Started with the comics. Gotta have that daily chuckle fix. And Dear Abby and the astrology stuff is right there.

Then the sports section.

And then a few headlines, maybe a little entertainment, a crossword if i was feeling that bored....

When i was an adult we had cable news you could consume with alcohol. Which was a different problem.

I still remember newspapers...

I was born in 2002, China.

I remember my dad always had newspapers... we didn't have internet... (I think I remember there being a TV, not sure how the news is run... but pehaps it wasn't on 24/7? I mean maybe we kids just hogged up the TV for kids stuff so they had to read newspapers)

I remember I think I sometimes sat on my dad's lap and I'd kinda just annoy him while he read lol... cuz I was attention seeking

I sometimes tried to read it too...

I remember sometimes I grabbed it because I was bored there are characters I didn't recognize and I wouldn't even know how to look up the definitions... cuz there was no Google Lens or that sort of thing... and its Logographic so I probably had no clue how to even look it up in a dictionary (didn't remember even having a dictionary I don't think), like you can't just down down alphabetical order like in English.

I mean for someone with no internet access, newpapers seemed interesting... like its vast amounts of info... a window to the outside world... (we weren't allowed outside much due to fears of kidnappers)

I remember more vividly when we firsr moved to NYC and dad had the 星島日報 Singtao Daily Newspaper thing... it's all in traditional chracters and it made my head hurt lol...

Also I remember there are like free 大紀元 (The Epoch Times) stuff lying around that are free...

When I was a kid I didn't know much about the world, but my dad was like "Oh these are the 'Anti-China' newspapers made by the Falun Gung Cult", but he grabbed them anyways since they were free, and for a while I sort of viewed those as like "evil newspaper" that is "tainted"... lol...

Nowadays they just doomscroll WeChat for news...

no one ever did that.