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 ...

Well, we all have memories of childhood. If they were good memories, they help a lot when bereaved. Happy times - especially now around the holidays. There were six of us growing up. Now only my ...

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 coinciding ...

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 Ward, ...

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 there ...

The first Sears Christmas Book, in 1933, was a modest 87 pages. It offered fruitcakes and Mickey Mouse watches and live canaries. By 1968, the catalog had ballooned to 608 pages, and sold quilted ...

I love catalogs, especially for the holidays. They provide all the “fun” of shopping without all the walking around and getting sore feet; or having to lug heavy, awkwardly-shaped shopping bags to the ...

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 ...