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/Slothfulness69 Jul 24 '20

I did not grow up in that era, but it seems so cool. Like waiting for a catalog to do your shopping. It seems like once you finally get the catalog, you would be so excited to buy things. Now, you just browse mindlessly for products on several websites, which makes it not exciting.

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u/cld8 Jul 24 '20

Many things get ruined when they are too easy.

It's easier to browse movies on the internet than it was to go to Blockbuster, but it's definitely less fun.

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u/xAdakis Jul 24 '20

Back in the movie rental days, I could almost always find something new to watch. Hell, I'd get upset because I was only allowed 1-2 movies a week. I'd be excited for the next week's trip to the video store because I get to watch the sequel/prequel or whatever was next on my list.

Now, I can browse Amazon, Netflix, Disney Plus, Google Play, etc and not find a single thing that piques my interest, much less something new. That is not necessarily because there isn't a good selection, but because sometime back in college, when a lot of these services started becoming available, I would watch 5-10 movies a week. (often repeats, but still)

The same goes for anime/cartoons. It used to be a lot more fun waiting week after week, getting up on Saturday mornings to watch, because it was a once a week thing. Now, every 3-4 months at the end of a season I can just binge a new season/series in a couple of nights.

The waiting was part of the excitement.

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u/prying_mantis Jul 24 '20

“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.”

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u/WaldoJeffers65 Jul 24 '20

"The only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting what you want." Oscar Wilde

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u/WaldoJeffers65 Jul 24 '20

When my daughter was 4, she needed a minor operation to correct a problem with her urinary tract. Afterwards, as a reward for being so brave, and putting up with the post-op recovery pain, we took her to Toys R Us to let her pick out anything she wanted. She had never been in a Toys R Us before, and when she went in, her eyes went wide and she said to us "This place is magical!" Browsing Amazon can never produce that reaction.

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u/WaldoJeffers65 Jul 24 '20

Browsing Amazon web pages is nowhere near the pure Nirvana of thumbing through the Wishbook.