Members EllenP Posted June 26, 2019 Members Share Posted June 26, 2019 Who else remembers the 1st soap magazine they purchased? Mine was the December 5, 1995 issue of Soap Digest. I was in 7th grade, love(d) Nikki Newman, and HAD to own this issue. I had just come from a family xmas party and the kmart in town still had the old issue on the shelf three days after the holiday. It was a month old issue, but I just didnt care! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted June 26, 2019 Members Share Posted June 26, 2019 Roughly the same time and same age. September of 1995. Mom purchased it for me. I had recently started watching DAYS in the summer and went back to 7th grade in the fall. After a week without, I had to start taping it every day. And still the 24-year habit continues... Please register in order to view this content The Hope/Bo/Billie storyline was my favorite, and here comes news (to us) that Billie was leaving! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRfan23 Posted June 26, 2019 Members Share Posted June 26, 2019 well, I ordered 5 1990 soap opera digests on ebay that came in a pack. I was 19 and that was almost a decade ago...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EllenP Posted June 26, 2019 Author Members Share Posted June 26, 2019 1995-98 soaps really helped to raise me in some ways and I coveted any soap magazine I could get my hands on. Sometimes the local public library would have old issues of the mags in the free used book section. Anyway I felt like an outcast buying this magazine and I could feel the Kmart cashier’s eyes piercing right through me. I am a black trans woman adopted by white parents and this was before I transitioned. Boy, I wish we had self checkout then, even tho I would still have to hide it from my parents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Darn Posted June 26, 2019 Members Share Posted June 26, 2019 I was a black little boy and wouldn't dare buy a soap opera magazine so I just read them an empty checkout line. Still do, but now only because I'm cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoria foxton Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 (edited) My first soap mag was the SOD issue featuring the GH 25th anniversary. I was at a supermarket. I was 13 and my mom bought it for me. Over a year later. At a newsstand near my high school. I was buying comics. When i came across the first issue of Soap Opera Weekly. I became hooked to the soap mags. Which i used to read during study hall. I never felt any shame buying them. Even through i'm an albino hermaphrodite. Adopted by traveling gypsies. Edited June 27, 2019 by victoria foxton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BoldRestless Posted June 26, 2019 Members Share Posted June 26, 2019 I think it was this one. I was already watching daytime but I wanted this because of 90210. My mom never let me buy soap magazines. I was sick and she felt bad so she ran back in and got it for me lol. Thanks mom. Please register in order to view this content I remember going to visit my dad (parents divorced) every weekend and making him take me to the candy store every time so I could buy the soap magazines and then I would read them in the car and ignore him. Ah, the pre-internet days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted June 27, 2019 Members Share Posted June 27, 2019 Please register in order to view this content ...Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRBB Posted June 27, 2019 Members Share Posted June 27, 2019 I see you picked up on that, too Please register in order to view this content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marco Dane Posted June 27, 2019 Members Share Posted June 27, 2019 This was my first soap magazine... Episodes.... I wonder why they stop publishing them.... Please register in order to view this content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted June 27, 2019 Members Share Posted June 27, 2019 I don't even recall the Episodes magazines. I always bought the SOW mags and occasion an SOD mag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fevuh Posted June 27, 2019 Members Share Posted June 27, 2019 I don't remember the date but I remember an SOD with (either Tonio, Meg, and Sierra) on ATWT or Holden and Lily and someone or just Holden and Lily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EllenP Posted June 29, 2019 Author Members Share Posted June 29, 2019 These are so cool. I wish that CBS had done something similar! Transphobia, huh? Cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members titan1978 Posted June 30, 2019 Members Share Posted June 30, 2019 It was this one I think. Because they were hot and the photos were great. And they used those photos so often for years. Please register in order to view this content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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