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i got a bass pro shops catalog in the mail yesterday i think before last night i'd have said "why the gently caress are catalogs a thing still in 2023" but it was nice. flipping through stuff away from a computer just has a satisfying analog feel i think i kinda miss. going through department store catalogs as a kid looking at toys, that kinda stuff. y'all miss catalogs? any weird or cool catalog memories?
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Someone kept bringing in Musician's Friends to the break room at my last job, and I always enjoy flipping through MF.
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Jan 24, 2024 16:43
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Southern Cassowary posted:i got a bass pro shops catalog in the mail yesterday i got a amazon catalogue for kids toys in december and laughed and was like what is this old timey poo poo amazon is trying to pull. it was like a sears catalogue. but my kids saw it on the table and loved flipping thru it, circling poo poo, etc. made me really nostalgic. my gf gets a (quarterly i think?) lego catalogue too and it kinda rules. i like old analog type of stuff like this tbh. its a big reason i drive old cars and prefer older style mechanical cooking implements vs new flashy digital bullshit
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Jan 24, 2024 17:09
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MrQwerty posted:Someone kept bringing in Musician's Friends to the break room at my last job, and I always enjoy flipping through MF. when i was 12 musician's friend had a jackson dinky with a dragon on it and i wanted it so loving bad 
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Jan 24, 2024 17:10
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I used to look at all the cool stuff in the back of my mom's old Harvey Comics. (casper, richie rich, etc) The cool poo poo you could get for like a nickel or a stamp. All I wanted was Xray glasses. (also lol skin head wig) /read-richie-rich-comics-online-3047.jpg)
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Jan 24, 2024 17:26
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What was that catalog that had a bunch of joke gifts and the most random poo poo imaginable? Those were fun.
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Jan 24, 2024 17:30
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I used to dissect the Sears Catalog Toy section with scientific precision.
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Jan 24, 2024 17:31
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My mom was a nurse and they would send her catalogs of scrubs with all kinds of crazy fun designs. It was like Lisa Frank but for clothes that blood and poo poo is going to get on
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Jan 24, 2024 17:32
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i get my catalogs online
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Jan 24, 2024 17:34
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redshirt posted:I used to dissect the Sears Catalog
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Jan 24, 2024 17:35
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Well, yeah, but gotta say, once I discovered Cosmopolitan magazine, the Sears bra section just didn't hit the same.
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Jan 24, 2024 17:36
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AcidCat posted:
 I feel like a lot of my awakening was due to junk from the mail.
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Jan 24, 2024 17:38
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Understandable. But my grandma didn't subscribe to Cosmo - so I had to make do. In fact this was the pre-Cosmo time.
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Jan 24, 2024 17:39
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Oriental Trader - tons of novelties and plastic crap you could order by the gross. Boys Life - Tons of knives, plans, and mail in scams. I bought a water balloon launcher. CCS - looked at this more than I actually skateboarded.
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Jan 24, 2024 17:44
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Sears/JC Penny catalogs were the Holy Texts growing up in the 80's
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Jan 24, 2024 17:48
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the person who lived in this house before us got a seed catalog and I bought some seeds from it so now we both get catalogs
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Jan 24, 2024 17:54
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The Finn posted:Sears/JC Penny catalogs were the Holy Texts growing up in the 80's Toys pages for Christmas time and bra section for mysterious stirrings time
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Jan 24, 2024 17:57
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Computer Shopper was always a goodie, it was basically 80s/90s NewEgg in magazine form, and the mags were always like an inch thick. You can find fully scanned ones on the Internet Archive
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Jan 24, 2024 17:58
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Poohs Packin posted:Boys Life - Tons of knives, plans, and mail in scams. I bought a water balloon launcher. Hell yeah, I got, uh... A bunch a dumbass Disney stamps from overseas for a penny or something stupid
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Jan 24, 2024 17:59
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shyduck posted:Computer Shopper was always a goodie, it was basically 80s/90s NewEgg in magazine form, and the mags were always like an inch thick. You can find fully scanned ones on the Internet Archive They ruled. Bill & Alice articles in the back were a highlight, new products tested in the Lab of Doom & Pepsi-Cola
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Jan 24, 2024 18:00
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Yes Sundance catalog has lots of earrings that I like to look at for techniques/inspiration. I have hundreds of images on my phone for reference but it's not as good as seen it on the actual page. Same with art reference
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Jan 24, 2024 18:14
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I remember getting the Sharper Image catalog in the mail as a kid and thinking "whoa this stuff is from the future!" and imagine all the cool stuff I could buy when I became a working adult. Then I grew up a little and realized how stupid and gimmicky it all was, though I'd still sit in their massage chairs at the mall until I'd get kicked out. How did they know a teenager in a Slipknot shirt wasn't there to buy a motorized tie rack or some other dumb poo poo?
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Jan 24, 2024 18:21
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Southern Cassowary posted:when i was 12 musician's friend had a jackson dinky with a dragon on it and i wanted it so loving bad I used to look longingly at the marcus miller signature jazz bass in the musicians friend catalog. It was the first thing I bought once I got a real job after college.
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Jan 24, 2024 18:29
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My best friend would get these weird catalogs of seemingly-random products (probably stuff up for liquidation) back when we were 10. It ruled because one day they offered a huge set of those Kenner-made Aliens figures for like 60 bucks and we spent the rest of the year recreating Starship Troopers with our GI Joes and an army of gorilla aliens. Oh, and we also got Columbia House for the free albums but never honored the "buy 3 albums in a year at full price" part of the deal and nothing came up from it.
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Jan 24, 2024 18:32
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:i got a amazon catalogue for kids toys in december and laughed and was like what is this old timey poo poo amazon is trying to pull. it was like a sears catalogue. but my kids saw it on the table and loved flipping thru it, circling poo poo, etc. made me really nostalgic. Another catalog I had as a kid was Edumnd Scientific or something like that. Nerdy stuff you could order. I got a big Fresnel lens and melted stuff with it when I was a kid in the 80s.
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Jan 24, 2024 18:35
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Raised on National Geographic and Sears catalogs and then suddenly Victoria's Secret comes along out of nowhere shattering everything Catalogs were basically the safer pre-internet
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Jan 24, 2024 18:36
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Back in the mid 90's I knew these crazy twins (they'd swap personalities every year or so) and one of them got this "Home Defense" catalog, and I was blown away with what they were selling. Razor blade tape, all kinds of crazy knives, I'm sure some illegal stuff. One of the phrases for the barbed wire tape has stuck with me: "Lure the home invader into your pre-selected kill zone".
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Jan 24, 2024 19:48
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Every magazine seemed to have a few pages in the back for a mini-catalog and that's where all the magic happened.
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Jan 24, 2024 19:50
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I still get catalogs sometimes from the nursery I buy plants at. Its nice.
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Jan 24, 2024 19:50
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Ordering sick band merch out of the newsprint Sessions catalog
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Jan 24, 2024 19:50
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Sears Wishbook was the best thing in the 80s. The hours I would spend just starting all the toys and playsets.
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The Finn posted:Sears/JC Penny catalogs were the Holy Texts growing up in the 80's
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I remember looking at Delia's and wishing my parents could afford it. I also wanted all the slipknot, korn, Ramones and YOU LAUGH AT ME BECAUSE I'M DIFFERENT I LAUGH AT YOU BECAUSE YOURE ALL THE SAME tshirts at the back of the magazines I used to get.
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Jan 24, 2024 20:14
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I read the bass pro shops catalogue today oh boy
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i was never a model train guy but my dad was briefly before he switched to being a full time ham radio nerd. for a couple years when i was a kid we still got these big thick catalogs of model train stuff. i loved them. i wasnt into the trains so much as all of the very detailed scenery. some of them had stuff for like historical dioramas and ww2 airplane models etc too. also every once in a while we'd go to a hobby shop and i'd get a special glossy japanese catalog of diorama stuff. never actually ordered anything out of them tho these days the only catalog i get is the sweetwater catalog (music gear) but i am also constantly bombarded by ads for gear in all my social media so i dont really look at them much. and if i ever buy something from them i get weirdly personal calls from a sweetwater rep named gary who seems to have quite a lot of time on his hands and is kind of lonely. Earwicker fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Jan 24, 2024 |
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I spent a lot of time at my grandma's as a kid and she had the Lillian Vernon and Harriet Carter catalogg. My sister and I would play the game "pick one from each page". Sometimes they had VHS instructional tapes about having sex as an old person and "personal massagers" and we'd laugh at those pages.
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Dixville posted:I remember looking at Delia's and wishing my parents could afford it. Same. I'd see the inflatable furniture and think "wow that must be for millionaires"
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Earwicker posted:i was never a model train guy but my dad was briefly before he switched to being a full time ham radio nerd. for a couple years when i was a kid we still got these big thick catalogs of model train stuff. i loved them. i wasnt into the trains so much as all of the very detailed scenery. some of them had stuff for like historical dioramas and ww2 airplane models etc too. also every once in a while we'd go to a hobby shop and i'd get a special glossy japanese catalog of diorama stuff. never actually ordered anything out of them tho oh yeah the old model train and wargaming scenery catalogues were loving legendary. my buddies dad was also into that poo poo and had stacks of them filled with the most glorious dioramas. i do that stuff myself now and i'd kill to have some of those old mags to flip thru
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Ralph Crammed In posted:I spent a lot of time at my grandma's as a kid and she had the Lillian Vernon and Harriet Carter catalogg. My sister and I would play the game "pick one from each page". Sometimes they had VHS instructional tapes about having sex as an old person and "personal massagers" and we'd laugh at those pages. Oh gosh, memory unlocked. I had this thing for the older sister of a friend, and we in fact became pretty close - we drove to work most every day one summer for example. When the shoe section was dead and there was no busy work, I'd browse through the Herman Sporting Goods catalog, imagining what items we'd get together, what sports we could play, would we get matching workout outfits, etc? Nothing ever came of it FYI.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:oh yeah the old model train and wargaming scenery catalogues were loving legendary. my buddies dad was also into that poo poo and had stacks of them filled with the most glorious dioramas. i do that stuff myself now and i'd kill to have some of those old mags to flip thru
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