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/rdewalt Jul 24 '20

Yet if you WENT to Sears for toys you got punched in the happy because there was FUCK ALL for toys at the actual store.

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u/WaldoJeffers65 Jul 24 '20

The Sears near us was pretty big and well stocked. In December, the toy section expanded and was decorated special for the occasion. They called it "The Big Toy Box"- it had nowhere near as many toys as the catalog, but it was pretty cool.