wow, I've thrown away all those special offers except the last one - hmmm, feathering their nest while knowing the end was near? Pretty expensive issue even for Gwyneth!

I can understand why they are shutting down. I subscribed to the magazine and it's pure advertising. It's very hard to find the articles between all the ads. I cancelled my subscription a while back.

Hey...we have Better Homes and Gardens and Architectural Digest and many other home magazines....so we don't need House & Garden and sales must havebeen down so they made a decision to cut their losses.

I too shall miss Dominique's editorials. I shall also miss the Testy Tastemaker column. I looked forward to reading them every month.

I too shall miss Dominique's editorials. Her warmth was obvious with every one. I shall miss the Testy Tastemaker as well.

I won't miss any of it because I never read any of it.

Does this mean I get a refund?

I agree with Marcela. I stopped all my subscriptions for just that reason. All ads and those darned stick in postcard ads that make it impossible to just leaf through a magazine. Believe me, when you tear out all the ads you are left with about one fourth of what you started with. Its just not worth it.

How about all the money we paid for future issues on extended subscription and 2 for 1 gift offers?

I PREFER "HIGH TIMES."

I agree with Brenda I remove postcards before my ritualistic leafing thru from the back.
I won't miss Gwyneth and her "ersatz" style. This anti-American she can stay in the UK.
On the plus side: Several issues in a doctor's office gave me fantastic ideas about my garden. One of which provided me with a contest-winning idea.
G.Lawrence (#3 comment) has a good professional insights.
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G. Lawrence, you are absolutely right. This is not a hopeless cause. They do need some fresh blood; people who have a passion for the magazine. Use the publicity now to get it going House & Garden. All is not lost.

Maybe if magazines like this boasted about how most of us live, they'd survive. Quite frankly, I'm more interested in what some of your homes look like. Not Gwen Paltrow's. It's not like she designed it anyway.

I too am sorry to see the magazine go, although I do agree with the person that said it was mostly ads. Still, the ads gave insight to new home products. My favorite magazine is still Traditional Home Magazine. If that fails.. all is lost.. it's my home decorating Bible! RIP House and Garden.. you will be remembered with fondness..

Home & What?

They are shutting the magazine down with 6 million subscribers? Something aboit this picture does not seem right. Then they should try something else. How about merging it with another magazine of theirs? Or better yet, sell it off to somebody else to give it a try where they had failed.

I stopped subscribing to this magazine several years ago because I thought they had changed the entire format to "Advertisers' Ads Only." I couldn't find anything inside about home or garden! All this publication needs is a new editor and a new marketing executive.

You Yanks need a lesson in what works and what doesn't. In a world of everything must be new and bright, anything older than a few years becomes passee and tired for the media fed, attention deficit affected masses. Something that has outlasted all the fads, and short-lived bad ideas not only might have, but does have staying power, and plainly still has mass appeal. But no, it is old, it is tired, we must kill it before the world thinks we are old and tired too. No, we don't think you are old and tired, we think you are young and SPOILED!

I will genuinely miss this magazine. I am sick of the uninspiring, blandtastic design from some of the other shelter publications. H & G could take modern design and combine it with the traditional and unique, for a look that expressed creativity and individuality. Advertising is a part of life. If I had to flip through pages of advertising to get to that one mouth dropping page, it was well worth the wrist action.