Imagine that somebody at Sears Tower had the foresight to turn that catalog into Amazon.?
Yup. Every year everyone got a Sears and a Canadian tire catalog. What’s next to go down? Good ol HBC?View attachment 15449
SEARS IS GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. DO YOU REMEMBER THE SEARS WISH BOOK AT CHRISTMAS? HOW DO YOU SHOP NOW? HOW OFTEN DO YOU GO TO A BRICK AND MORTAR STORE FOR SOMETHING?
Oh I loved this catalog. My brother and I would dog ear and circle what we wanted. We rarely got what we picked lol. A cheaper version and whatever piece of clothing we were in need of but boy did we dream ...
I guess with the internet there’s no need. We see our dreams on line
That was so "me". The list got changed, rearranged, and rewritten on a nightly basis. I wanted to get the most toys for my Santa allotment. This also involved my little sister...if I could convince her SHE wanted the kitchen set we could both use, then I had more money freed up! Some days it looked like serious boardroom negotiations.I was a frugal Wish Book lurker in that I would review my choices almost nightly so that I could be certain that I was really marking up the items that I really, really, really wanted. I would change my mind frequently so I had to check my selections repeatedly.
That reminds me of a story my dad told me. He has a younger sister, and when he was little he had convinced her that nickels were worth more than dimes because they were bigger. And he, of course, was nice enough to let her trade up whenever she was stuck with a dime or two.That was so "me". The list got changed, rearranged, and rewritten on a nightly basis. I wanted to get the most toys for my Santa allotment. This also involved my little sister...if I could convince her SHE wanted the kitchen set we could both use, then I had more money freed up! Some days it looked like serious boardroom negotiations.
That reminds me of a story my dad told me. He has a younger sister, and when he was little he had convinced her that nickels were worth more than dimes because they were bigger. And he, of course, was nice enough to let her trade up whenever she was stuck with a dime or two.
Don't give him ideas.Good story but your dad might have missed out on the opportunity to scam some dimes in exchange for the larger pennies.
Don't give him ideas.
He made it up and then some, though. He grew up in West Virginia and joined the Navy to get out of the poverty of a coal mining area. Afterward he'd move his mother and step-father down to be with us, and when his sister got divorced he helped her start a new life in Illinois.