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.
‘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...