thoughts on catalogs..................
I love catalogs. they are stores that fit in your purse. mobile retail therapy!
a little bit of paper-delight full of sunshine for a dreary day
a bathroom break
or a carpool pick-up-pick-me-up!
I love all catalogs too. I have some great ones as links on my sidebar, but sadly i will peruse the desert book one for hours, and the foot care/ailment one my mom got off of being on some list. school teacher supply catalogs, and animal supplies. the jewelry finding ones and the office supply catalogs. dell computers, and auto supplies. i love all of the pottery barn ones, and the disney store. Jcpenny bigbook, and the Sears catalog! do you remember the Current catalog with cards? my fave is around valentines day, Current valentines are the best! and it seems like if you sign up for a catalog mailing list then you automatically get signed up for the email online catalog reminders. which is oh so tempting and enjoyable, but they don't replace the wonder of a real paper catalog i can fit in my purse, or have in the car, or take it to lunch to show a friend. and my kids love them too. oriental trading company, costumes express, American Girl, and Fisher Price. the fighting over the catalogs can get old and so can the whining for treasures but i hand them to the kids with a disclaimer that they can't ask for anything, and they have to share. and i swear it is good for hours of entertainment. and they will happily sit for a car ride "Reading" the catalog, and who doesn't love to get something in the mail? I signed Peyton up for the Lego catalog and he was feeling pretty special whenever it appeared in our mailbox.
* gotta love a catalog! and by extension ads! *
and Sunday newspaper ads are equally delightful and by extension still catalogs! all my favorite stores sales, and new products! i love the ads before Christmas, and obsess over the day after thanksgiving sales ads! and hunt down the websites listing all the stuff that will be listed and offered in the ads for my favorite day of the year! AHHHH it is coming! and i can't wait! WHOOHOO!
I even love to get the junk mail ad magazines, and the grocery ads, and i don't actually go and buy what is on sale (unless it is COKE PRODUCTS) I just love to look at the ads! SO DORKY!
do you love any catalogs?
which ones?
are you "into" Sunday newspaper ads?
which are your faves?
7 comments:
My Mom is the same way. I like my couple of catalogs, but not as many as you do. If I get too many it stresses me out because I don't feel like I have time to look through them all, but don't want to miss something great. Stupid huh? But I like to look through them while I'm sitting at parent pick up at the school. And I get the Sunday paper just for the ads. I don't even read the paper, just want the ads and the coupons. But then hate when something sells out on Sunday, and I don't get there until Mon. or Tues.
I'm back to reading and posting and commenting. Your the 1st! I love catalogs too. My kids love to read them in the car as well. We are sooooo the same!
We only get the Desret Book mailer and what comes in the mail on Wednesday. I take them directly to the blue barrel. It makes my husband so mad . He is so sure we are missing a great deal. We probably are. I just don't like how they hang around until I clean up the mess. So thats why I toss em.
I love catalogs too. Right now we get the Deseret Book and the Pottery Barn. I adore magazines as well, I get 5 of those!!
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LOL, not so much a catalog person, although I do get DB (wonder why?!) and I have Corbin signed up for Lego too. We all love the Sunday ad's though. Jeff and I have our own stacks that we like and a few we must share, and both of us have been known (every year of our marriage) for one of us to go and get the paper that has the BIG Thanksgiving/Christmas sale ads at 5am when Safeway or wherever opens up! Love the Target and Toys R Us! Oh and I must say I love the JcPenney's catalogs, especially the baby ones, I had a TON when I was pg with Corbin. In fact I saw a bedding set in there that my mother in law duplicated and made for me.
I just got my 2008 IKEA Catalog--you betcha I will peruse, reread, dog ear, cirlce and basically wear that one out.
I do love catalogs but, I don't have a ton! Now my mother-in-law & Paige have so many & I love looking at theirs they have lots of fun different ones!-so fun
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