JCPenney will send out 10 million copies of its Christmas Catalog this fall. The redesigned catalog will feature merchandise grouped by themes such as “gifts under $25,” “gifts for him or her,” “gifts ...

While Christmas decorations appear and gardens go dormant, nursery catalogs offer gardeners a preview of spring possibilities ...

September in the 1960s meant the changing of the seasons, a new school year and the arrival of the coveted Christmas catalogs. For many baby boomers, these toy-filled dream books from Montgomery Ward, ...

W hen I was 10 years old, Christmas began when a row of boxes filled with brightly colored ornaments lined the shelf above ...

Cyber Monday has claimed a popular tradition at my house: shopping by catalog. Admittedly, eight Harry & David catalogs was seven too many, but I went for my pile of catalogs this weekend, and there ...

The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney. I get a lot of Christmas catalogs with hundreds of gift ideas in them and I like getting them because there are ...

Christmas bells are ringing, the toy catalogs have all been marked up by Santa’s most hopeful fan club and the spirit of the ...

The first Sears Christmas Book, in 1933, was a modest 87 pages. It offered fruitcakes and Mickey Mouse watches and live canaries. By 1968, the catalog had ballooned to 608 pages, and sold quilted ...

Sears launched its first Christmas Wishbook catalog since 2011 this year. To take a look back at holiday catalogs since they began in 1933, the Tribune visited the Sears catalog archives in Hoffman ...

Question: While going through containers filled with Christmas items after our late grandmother’s death, my brother and I came across several boxes filled with old Sears “Wish” Christmas catalogs, ...

Well, we all have memories of childhood. If they were good memories, they help a lot when bereaved. Happy times - especially now around the holidays. There were six of us growing up. Now only my ...