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… ...

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 ...

This time of year always makes me think of the Christmas catalog. I’m not talking about the item-specific catalogs you still get in the mail today, but rather the huge catalogs from Sears ...

The mail brings a sheaf of catalogs every day, and they all fall into one of several categories.

Perusing The Christmas Catalogs December 19, 2008 / 3:14 PM EST / CBS The following is a weekly 60 Minutes commentary by CBS News correspondent Andy Rooney.

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… ...

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 ...

Not long ago, Christmas catalogs didn’t appear in our mailboxes until around Thanksgiving, usually just after. Now the catalog deluge starts closer to Labor Day, 2 ½ months earlier, roughly ...

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 ...

But for me, that catalog — dog-eared, food-stained, pen-marked — was what Christmas was all about. Forget the underwear, socks, pajamas and small appliances that filled the first 50 pages.

We get a lot of catalogs at my house. I’m not sure why. Has the Christmas shopping season extended out this far? The most probable explanation is that we occasionally order stuff from a catalog ...