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JCPenney will send out 10 million copies of its Christmas Catalog this fall. The redesigned catalog will feature merchandise grouped by themes such as “gifts under $25,” “gifts for him or her,” “gifts ...
The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney. I get a lot of Christmas catalogs with hundreds of gift ideas in them and I like getting them because there are ...
The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney. I get a lot of catalogs at this time of year. I never buy anything in any of them but that doesn't seem to ...
The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. I’m pretty immune to Christmas catalogs by now. Ten years ago, the Neiman Marcus catalog was the standard. It ...
Remember opening up your mailbox to discover your eagerly anticipated Christmas catalog? Children would excitedly flip through the pages to select items for their letters to Santa or identify ...
Cyber Monday has claimed a popular tradition at my house: shopping by catalog. Admittedly, eight Harry & David catalogs was seven too many, but I went for my pile of catalogs this weekend, and there ...
The holiday shopping season is underway. This year around my house it's easy: No one wants anything. No one needs anything. In fact, you'd be doing them a favor if you got rid of something. Box up a ...
Sears launched its first Christmas Wishbook catalog since 2011 this year. To take a look back at holiday catalogs since they began in 1933, the Tribune visited the Sears catalog archives in Hoffman ...
Question: While going through containers filled with Christmas items after our late grandmother’s death, my brother and I came across several boxes filled with old Sears “Wish” Christmas catalogs, ...
Not long ago, Christmas catalogs didn’t appear in our mailboxes until around Thanksgiving, usually just after. Now the catalog deluge starts closer to Labor Day, 2 ½ months earlier, roughly coinciding ...
September in the 1960s meant the changing of the seasons, a new school year and the arrival of the coveted Christmas catalogs. For many baby boomers, these toy-filled dream books from Montgomery Ward, ...
I was 9 years old in 1958. It was different then: 9-year-old girls still had little girl thoughts, little girl interests, and little girl wishes. It was a simpler time, as they say. But I digress; ...