Posted on 12/26/2014 8:20:29 AM PST by tioga
My grandparents were SEARS Catalog people. So although my mother nor I were mail order buyers...it was in the family.
I love looking at mail order catalogs, it beats the pushy salesmen/women any day of the week. I just hate to have to return things, I am a try on before buying person.
I do see your point.
At one point you could buy an entire house from the Sears catalog.
Some assembly required.
Of course, you had to go to the local train depot to pick it up.
‘Tis the day after Christmas
I had hung my stocking with care
I got what I wanted- an old chunk of coal
which goes with my rags and tattered shoes
someday my pumpkin will turn into a Vette
cause I’m gonna be a diamond someday and ride like a queen
the rags turn to riches - I ride with a smile as my
hair is blowing in the wind
as the pines bow over head
and I haven’t a care.
I love to look at mail order catalogs, too-I get a few of them from places where I’ve ordered herb seeds and bottled herbs, and all kinds of household stuff. The herb and flower seed catalogs have such nice pictures of gardens that no regular person could ever maintain.
My first husband and I used to get the Needless Markup catalog-he signed up for it when he some little thing on a business trip to Dallas. Of course we couldn’t afford the stuff in it, but looking at it was fun...
We used to get most of our camping stuff from the Sears catalog, and a lot of my husband’s tools.
Oh I still look at catalogs, but don’t order as I don’t need much. Occasionally order online or by coupons. Nice pictures though.
I remember they used to have a window in the store where you could order and pick up stuff from the catalog.
My sisters and I used to always look through the Christmas catalog for toys when we were little.
Well, if your subconscious doesn’t know you, then Who does ??
I just caught the ep a second time to fill in the gaps – cute story ... And from the prior Finale credits, “Nick Frost” wasn’t an in-joke as first thought ;)
Is your BIL going to have surgery? A lot of those chemotherapy drugs are very damaging-my contractor compadre was taken off of them several months ago-while keeping the cancer at bay, the drugs were killing him slowly, organ by organ-he is having the gene-based therapy now, only on maintenance doses every few months working a full week again, and much better.
I saw an article on American Thinker all about Kwaanza being a made-up holiday, how an American criminal who tortured women invented it without even checking the history of Africa, etc-just a lot of invented mumbo jumbo, like my neighbor and I were sure it was when she told her niece that-it is sold as a harvest celebration-more than two months after the harvest is done?
The fool said Egyptians celebrated it, too-totally untrue, lots of other ridiculous stuff-I can’t believe a teacher with a functioning brain would even mention that fiction in a class, unless it was to make kids look it up on the internet and write a paper on why it was such bulls***...
By the way, the neighbor told me her sister did indeed make a complaint to the school board, only to find there were 6 already made about the teacher wasting class time on kwanza by other parents. I guess there are still some parents with sense in Austin...
Now they say there is a problem with his intestines. A lesion there. Not sure what is happening. It’s the holiday weekend, guess they can’t get their act together.
A lesion or an air space that shouldn’t be there. Hard to decipher it all from text messages.
That teacher is a leftist crackpot to still be teaching that fake stuff.
Let pope Francis go right ahead and alienate himself from sensible Catholics in America-he is from a communist country where he only heard one side of reality, and he isn’t the first pontiff in history to go off the rails with the belief in his own importance-it used to happen more often.
Popes convinced of their superiority who forget that they actually work for God have had emperors and kings deposed, members of even other Christian religions imprisoned, banished and tortured-as in the Inquisition-and up to and during the Renaissance, artists and astronomers were sanctioned and excommunicated for saying the earth or sun wasn’t the center of the universe, that the earth was round, or painting something the pope didn’t like.
Let this one just keep talking nonsense-people aren’t as credulous and uneducated as we were 500-600 years or so ago-most people didn’t even know how to read or write then-and in this country, a lot of our ancestors came here from the gitgo to escape persecution by wrong-thinking and fanatical religious leaders of all kinds. His nonsense alienates most of us, and that is a shame...
WFTD today...not a dandy? ;-)
Coming, somehow I overslept.
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