After reading the reviews and the inexpensive $8.95 price tag, I thought this magazine would make a great gift for my handy husband. He wasn't impressed with the first two issues and complained of advertisements crowding the magazine. He was excited to read a good article on beginning welding in his 3rd issue. I took some time to leaf through the magazine before writing this review. The advertisements are exhausting. For example, in the first 10 pages of one issue, I counted 3 full page advertisements and 3 half page advertisements. It's like that throughout the remainder of the magazine as well. This is really unfortunate as it takes away from the readability of the magazine. There is some useful information presented such as "stuff we love" which outlines favorite DIY tools, material, and gear. There are Pro tips (example: installing an irrigation system), reader DIY tips, and a handful of projects with decent instructions. Unfortunately, most of the projects haven't interested my husband. We won't be renewing this again.

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I will no buy this again.... way to much advertising FYI, Men who BUILD don't buy crap at Ikea....that complete lack of logic on the editor of this magazine has made me decide to not buy this magazine any more

Some content was really good, but the adds to content balance just didn't work for me. Pretty sure it was at least 60/40 ads to content.

I made the mistake of signing up. It took several months to even get the first issue, and in total I have only received a few more since signing up ten months ago.

Complete disappointment.

This subscription seems to come intermittently. The magazine is mostly advertisements. We won't renew.