That's Life

I have worked in the hairdressing industry for many years now and I am always looking for things that will entertain the customers, while I am busy working on others. I always buy hair and high fashion magazines which are fine but how many hair styles and overly priced clothes can you look at in a few hours without getting board. These in price costing have been costing between 3.50 and 6.95 per issue, and it got disheartening when you would see clients just flick through the pages randomly. Especially when I was buy 4 magazines a week totaling roughly 20.00 per week. So I needed to take action and save me some money, as these customers really did not ...  Read the complete review

I knew I was going to be early for college one day so I picked up a 'That's Life' magazine out of the rack to have a read while I was waiting for lessons to start... The magazine is very colourful with many eye-grabbing headlines and costs 68p. It seems very sensationalist and aimed at women although I'm sure men would enjoy it also, lol! There is a lot happening on the front cover to grab the reader's interest and the write up advertises a big trip away also... The magazine is famous for its competitions and is sold a week in advance but I don't know why? Inside there is a contents list and al the Prize Puzzles ...  Read the complete review

I like to read the free Metro newspaper that you get on public transport, however these newspapers can sometimes go very quickly. So when I have no Metro I tend to have a wander in my lunch hour to the local shop near where I work. I don't really stick to any magazine in particular, however I do find that That's Life! is a pretty decent magazine especially at a low price of 68p. Most of the stories are very interesting with the front cover obviously showing the better ones. It also has the handy page number under each stories headline. The stories are a good mixture of heart felt stories and also true crime. There are over 10 different puzzles ...  Read the complete review

I read one of these magazines on a train in Ireland. Somebody had thoughtfully left it behind. After reading it from cover to cover in about ten minutes, I was not suprised it had been left behind. This publication caters for the lowest common denominator of readership. The main story featured a woman telling the tale of how she had stolen another woman's husband and 'forced' him to tell her whilst she was delivering their first child. She was crowing and triumphant. I couldn't believe that the narrator was being given room in a national magazine and paid to tell her miserable story of spite and selfishness. Another story showed ...  Read the complete review

This magazine, that's life! & other like ones, such as Chat & Take A Break, are, dare I say, strangely compelling. Most if not all of the stories are quite sick & very sad so I've no idea why (if you are easily offended/upset, and/or a hypochondriac, this is NOT for you.) The only reason I can think of is that that's life!'s readership is glad they aren't as badly off as the people the stories are about. Over the time I've read it I've seen a story about a woman with great ragged holes in her stomach (URGH !!) another one who ate her own hair, & one who hated the way she looked so much she wanted to gouge the fat out of her body. How lovely. ...  Read the complete review