Before the internet came along, did you buy things through a mail-order catalog?

Question

I used to. I always loved coming home to a new catalog in my mailbox. I kinda miss those days.

Answer 1

never...................

Answer 2

My mother used to do that too, but she would redeem them in person at the store instead of mailing it in.

Answer 3

never...................

Answer 4

I look through the books and then order off internet. To me it more faster and easier.

Answer 5

I rarely go shopping in stores and used catalogs for years and now use internet as well. I still get gangs of catalogs and they are still fun to flip through; just the internet is faster.

Answer 6

I still do, And I still get a lot of catalogs

Answer 7

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

Only a few times. I ordered some personal equipment when I was in the Army Reserve back in the 1980's

Answer 11

Yes! My mother and sister saved the green stamps and put them in those little booklets.

Answer 12

School clothes and Christmas gifts were always catalogue orders. Sears, Penneys, Montgomery Wards were always sitting on the *** table in the living room. :)

Answer 13

What about S&H Green Stamps? Remember those, they had a mail order catalog too.

Answer 14

Do you remember when J.C. Penney and Sears had a catalog department? Those are things of the past now. Those were the good ole days for sure.

Answer 15

Especially when overseas. We shopped Sears, Penney's, Montgomery Ward's, the Exchange Catalog, and, to the bane of the Battalion Mail Clerk, Yield House colonial furniture.

Answer 16

Christmas gifts for faraway family members were always great to send gift packages direct from the source.

Answer 17

No, I shopped at the store.

Answer 18

**** good question!

No I didn't ever buy anything from mail order magazines and you know it's probably for the same reason I don't buy anything on line and won't buy anything on line except for information.

I have to hold what ever it is I am buying, I have to test things, try them on and most importantly I have to look in the face of who I am buying from.

Answer 19

I still use catalogs, sometimes.

Answer 20

Sears catalog.. you could order if you paid in full they would send it to your house or store.. Or you could have it sent to the local store and make payments. They stopped the catalog in 1993...I still miss that big wish book!

Answer 21

still do sometimes...

Answer 22

No I rarely bought anything from mail order. I might order through a store like Sears but that is it.