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Full House |
| Date: |
14/05/08 (150 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Very cheap at 68p, affordable every week.
Disadvantages: none as of yet.
I have never been a great magazine reader, I like the sort of magazines that gossip about celebrities and indulge you in high fashion and beauty tips. So every month I get my local paper shop to deliver my favorite magazine cosmopolitan.
But this month I not only got my favorite magazine, but also delivered was an issue of full house magazine. I think the paperboy had delivered to me by mistake.
So I had a quick flick through it before ring the paper shop to inform them of the mistake. As I flicked through it I was fascinated as it not only had hair and beauty tips, low budget fashion tips, but it also had back to back pages of true life stories, puzzles and free give away, horoscopes and cooking recipes.
ABOUT FULL HOUSE
The magazine has 56 back to back pages of entertainment, all for the bargain price of 68p. My cosmopolitan cost 3.95 and this great read is only 68p. Not only am I saving money but I am getting more out of it.
Yes the pages are very thin and so was the magazine, compared to my usual magazine, but as I see it this is a good thing as I am helping the environment.
The magazine I got delivered was issue 20 15th may 2008, On the front page you get a low down of the highlighted stories contained in this issue, basically these are the feature stories that they use to attract you into buying the magazine.
Just inside the magazine you get a contents page that tells you where to find certain puzzles, stories, travel guides and health and beauty pages.
With the full house you get roughly six real life stories per issue, these stories are based on real people who have endured hard times, buy coping with deaths, brutal attacks, serious illness, escaped bad relationships and so on. Some of these stories are really extreme and barely believable, but at the same time they are credible.
In this issue there was a story that did make me laugh, an ex- alcoholic man was due to marry a lady who had met him in the pub and help him overcome is problem. The wedding was booked and he headed of to butlins for a stag do, where he met the love of his life Georgina. He then called off the wedding to the poor woman who saved him from drinking his self to death, and shacked up this the new woman.
It really made me laugh this guy didn't want to commit to the first woman and now plans to marry the girlfriend. He has painted his self out to be a saint in this story.
He must know that people will read between the lines and realise that he is a womanizer, an ugly one at that. Then he has the gut to sell his story to the magazine to gain him self five hundred pounds.
It is this type of story that magazine fall over them selves to print, but to me these people are degrading themselves by selling there stupid story in a bid to earn cash, this bloke more then likely took the five hundred and spend it down the pub as he did like to drink.
A part from these kinds of stories you can also get genuine ones that really put a lump in your throat. These are the ones that make the magazine worth reading. As these are genuine people who have suffered and just want to tell their story, to either help ease other pain or the get the details out there. Usually you find that the people who just want to tell there stories donate there money to charity.
PUZZLES
The thing that really got me into this magazine was all of the great puzzle and prizes that they give away on a weekly basis.
There were fourteen different puzzles and free give away within, this week's issue. Here are some of the puzzles and prizes you could be in with a chance of winning.
4 fit, is a puzzle that asks you to answer four questions across and four down a grid, when you have filled in the grip four yellow coloured squares will give you this weeks winning answer. On this you can win a months supply of you are what you eat goodies.
Bingo bonanza, here you have a bingo ticket and you have to eliminate the numbers by answering the question correctly, when all answers are finished you will have one number left, this is your winning number this week. You can earn 250.00 in hard cash.
Differences here you needed to spot five differences, the square that didn't have a difference is the winner, and in this puzzle you have 10 chances to win 25.00.
Match the patch you need to find the page in the magazine that has this picture on it. Readers also had 10 chances to win 25.00.
Code Z, here you have to find a place for all of the letters from the alphabet, once these are placed correctly the letter Z is your prize number, it pays out 250.00 to the winner.
Happy birthday this is biggest give away. It is big arrow word puzzle, which features a celebrity once completed the yellow boxes will reveal that celebrity's age, this is the answer and can win you 500.00.
The selection box puzzle is a cross word and you can take 250.00 pounds if you are selected as the winner. TRAILBLAZER is similar to the word search, any letters missed will build up to give you the puzzles answer, giving you opportunity to win a 600.00 diamond ring.
Jiggy is a completed cross word that has been jumbled up, just put it back together to win 250.00 pounds worth of swim wear.
These are just some of the great puzzles in the magazine, so have a go. These puzzles are relatively easy, as I am not that great at puzzles but I manage these, so I am sure anyone will be able to give them a go.
All you need to do to enter these puzzles is fill in the coupon at the back of the magazine and send it off before the competitions close.
To post your answers send it to FULL HOUSE (then the issue number), Admail 3223, Cambridge, CB11FA. This will cost the price of a stamp and envelope to send it.
Or you can text in your answers with your name address and post code, to 80252. It is as easy as that and it will cost you the price of a text message.
MY OVERALL OPINION
This is a well put together magazine, although it has some very cheesy stories, there are some very good ones. This magazine is one you can read from front to back in no time at all.
I love this as the puzzles are very easy to complete, and they are easy to submit your answers, which is a good thing as I always had a go and never ever sent them off.
To for 68p this is worth a try, the magazine is issued every Thursday and has different puzzles and prizes every week.
Summary: great magazine that will keep you hooked until it is finished.
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