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I don't know how many years ago it was that I made my first purchase through a catalog, but since then, the number of them I receive - especially in the Autumn - has grown so dramatically as to require a larger mailbox! Although that may sound like a complaint, it isn't. I have come to appreciate the convenience of shopping at home and ordering either by phone or online with a catalog open to the item I want in front of me. In just today's mail alone, there were eighteen of them, including "The Sportsman's Guide," "TravelSmith," "AutoSport," "Magic Cabin," Hearth Song," "What On Earth," "Wind and Weather," "Monticello," "International Male," "Orvis," "Chadwick's," "Warm Things," "Plow and Hearth," "Bits and Pieces," "Paul Frederick," "Blair," "Harry and David" and "L.L. Bean." I have ordered from a few of these in the past - but at least six of them are new to me, having never heard of them before - let alone purchased anything from them. They will all be granted, however, a cursory review by either my wife or I to pre-select which go immediately into recycling and which make it to the next level of consideration - whereupon we actually open and browse at the first few pages. In just today's batch, the bulk was so substantive that the postmistress had them bound in back with a notice in the box for me to pick them up, as though I had received a large package of some kind. They simply would not all fit into the box. I know how my name got around. Mailing lists are shared. I have no idea how I got on lists for companies like "The Sportsman's Guide" or "Today's Weaponry" (received yesterday) as I have never purchased any such item from anywhere that I can recall - but they come to me right along with the others. It generally takes ten of fifteen minutes to do a quick sort through them to set out the ones I might want to look through. Then, there is the time spent looking through them, placing markers in pages containing things I just 'might' be interested in buying and then time for the final review and decisions. All-in-all, it sounds like a lot of time - but I assess it to be far less than spending a day or two running around from one crowded retail store to the other looking for 'just the right thing' for everyone on my holiday list. I can take a break and read (something other than more catalogs, watch TV, go for a walk - whatever - and then come back to it when I feel like it. Usually, by the end of a half-day or so, all of my holiday shopping has been ordered. I am done. Finis. Until, of course, next year when the number of catalogues I receive will predictably increase exponentially according to the number of catalogs I have actually ordered from. There are certain things one needs to be cautious about buying without touching or trying on. Clothing for yourself or others can be risky for example. Everyone who has ever bought clothing knows that the sizing varies by manufacturer and is not, in and of itself, a reliable indicator of how (or if) the item will fit you or anyone else you may have in mind for it correctly. Electronics can be risky because if something is wrong you can't just take it back to where you bought it. You need to ship and often pay for that return shipping. Yet, with all the appropriate and necessary caveats that apply, catalog shopping has become my primary means of beating the crowds, the over burdened (and sometimes over zealous) sales people and the parking debacles that await either downtown (for me, San Francisco) or at the major malls in the pre-Christmas/Holiday season that seems to begin these days right around Halloween. So, unless you suffer from some particularly catalog version of papyrophobia (an unrealistic fear or phobia of paper,) you may want to consider saving some gas and some time by doing more of your holiday shopping by phone or online using what the post office brings you as basic resource material. It might actually save you some time, money and aggravation at a time of year when we don't really want to spend more time or money than we feel is right and certainly can enjoy our own holiday seasons with a tad less of the irritation frequently brought about by being pushed and shoved into waiting in endless lines in understaffed stores. Catalogs are a good thing. |
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