One year I found a Big Wheel circled in the catalog. That Christmas, that is

Apr 5, 2020
10:38:39pm

Oceanographer All-American

exactly what I got. I was 5 or 6. In my excitement, I shouted, "I knew it! It was marked in the catalog!"

Nothing was ever circled in the catalog again. My siblings wanted to kill me...

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ABC4 is doing a story on the Sears Catalog. Who remembers them?

Malathion

4/5/20 10:18pm

Sears catalog? Never heard of it.

Ragnar Danneskjold

4/5/20 10:18pm

Are they not around anymore? I love the Christmas catalog.

mrphotogenic

4/5/20 10:20pm

I believe canceled in 1993.

Malathion

4/5/20 10:21pm

Really. I knew I hadn't seen one in a few years but didn't think it was that

mrphotogenic

4/5/20 10:23pm

Yep 1993. Looks like they laid off 50,000 people too.

Malathion

4/5/20 10:27pm

That was how I chose what I wanted for Christmas as a kid

newbie

4/5/20 10:20pm

Agreed. It had my wish list in it.

Malathion

4/5/20 10:22pm

I'm a hack

777

4/5/20 10:29pm

Wasn't it called like the dream book or something? My Christmas go to also.

dave

4/5/20 11:15pm

The Wish Book

mrphotogenic

4/5/20 11:20pm

Bingo!

dave

4/5/20 11:25pm

Ackchyually, that was Montgomery Ward's catalog.

LittleTex

4/6/20 3:11pm

Bless you! COVID 19?

BYU Grounds

4/6/20 3:13pm

Us too. Sadly, I never got what I wanted from the Sears catalog...

m0resn0w

4/6/20 9:25am

I do and I am not that old

byusage

4/5/20 10:21pm

TNT's mom took them away from him

TNT

4/5/20 10:22pm

That explains the love for pinball machines.

Malathion

4/5/20 10:23pm

Ogling the pinball machine models?

No touching

4/5/20 10:24pm

She must’ve had a lie detector machine

kcca

4/5/20 10:42pm

Fought over with siblings it to check out new toys in the back.

zephyr

4/5/20 10:22pm

Same. 6 boys in my family all fighting over the catalog to make our list.

O Gaucho

4/5/20 10:26pm

The Wonder Years

zephyr

4/5/20 10:30pm

Nobody wants to get it second, that's for dang sure.

shimmy

4/5/20 10:31pm

One year I found a Big Wheel circled in the catalog. That Christmas, that is

Oceanographer

4/5/20 10:38pm

Oh man, that was Christmas shopping when I was a kid

TwinsRight

4/5/20 10:23pm

It was a big deal to pick up packages. We’d get drugstore candy too.

Malathion

4/5/20 10:25pm

What's funny is Sears should've been Amazon but they were stupid and didn't move to the internet.

byuluvr

4/5/20 10:24pm

Yep. They quit right when the internet was getting going.

gwalker

4/5/20 10:26pm

The head of the catalogue division basically killed any attempt to move to the

Blue Print

4/5/20 10:47pm

Do you have a source for that?

ChiefBeef

4/6/20 8:56am

My brothers and I beat each other up for it. We wanted to check out all the

WDaddy

4/5/20 10:27pm

Yeah, us too.

Malathion

4/5/20 10:35pm

That's how Christmas shopping was done. Kids circled their favorite things and

777

4/5/20 10:28pm

We are gradually forgetting Sears, not just the catalog

Heath Squashwell

4/5/20 10:29pm

Oh yeah. Who remembers Blue Stamps?

byujdmba

4/5/20 10:35pm

I remember green stamps

LaserCoug

4/6/20 6:36am

My dad was general counsel for Sears, I grew up on everything Sears. The name of

BYUFBDAD

4/5/20 10:36pm

At BYU I had a blue Sears card, which told anyone at Sears that I was a big deal

BYUFBDAD

4/5/20 10:39pm

I worked at Sears in college. Remember this well. Enjoy

hitechcpa

4/6/20 12:34am

As i recall, that particular photo was taken in Orem in a studio for Sears.

Pick-Six Coug

4/8/20 8:59pm

Sears was where my parents shopped, but we got the Spiegel catalog too and

Thrill

4/5/20 10:36pm

Ah yes, I remember well.

Malathion

4/5/20 10:57pm

I worked for the Sears telecatalog center in Provo when it opened.

StantonMac

4/5/20 10:37pm

Dad grew up in 1930s had Sears and Montgomery Wards so wouldn’t run out TP

Osteotome

4/5/20 10:51pm

Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs were

67Regent

4/6/20 12:06am

When I was 9 or 10 my best friend’s older brother got us to complete a series

adrock

4/6/20 12:34am

RE: ABC4 is doing a story on the Sears Catalog. Who remembers them?

Mister P

4/6/20 7:35am

The Christmas catalog was great! That's how our parents knew what to get for ..

BYU Grounds

4/6/20 12:33pm

The OGs had Victoria Secret.

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