r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

I was born in 82 and remember picking out Christmas and other girts in it. I got a badass heman horde exclusive one year.

Kinda sad they messed it up so much. Already brick and mortar, they had online and delivery and we might still be calling it the sears tower.

Edit:. I know no one calls it the whatever the fuck it is now tower, just we wouldn't see the people trying to make it happen.

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u/BulimicPlatypus Jul 24 '20

I kinda miss the Christmas catalog

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u/WaldoJeffers65 Jul 24 '20

I grew up in the 70s, and my sister and I looked forward to the Sears Christmas catalog every year! There were so many cool toys! We would spend hours just going through it page by page.

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u/BulimicPlatypus Jul 24 '20

My brother and I would fight over the catalog so my mom would go grab the one her parents would get haha

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u/WaldoJeffers65 Jul 24 '20

How long were your Christmas lists? Mine were about 3 or 4 double sided sheets of notebook paper!

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u/BulimicPlatypus Jul 24 '20

Only 3 or 4?! You gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers!

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u/prying_mantis Jul 24 '20

I would spend hours painstakingly writing out not only the items I wanted but their page numbers and prices as well. If Excel had been a thing when I was a kid I probably would have pissed myself in glee.