Old Catalog has Christmas Lesson for All

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An original copy of the Sears catalog from 1939 crossed my desk this week. Other than the jokes it allowed me to tell (Finally! I ordered that thing 72 years ago!), it let me engage in an interesting pass-time.

As with other old catalogs or newspapers I've run across in the past, I like to imagine myself living at that time with the salary I have today, not accounting for inflation, of course (what would be the fun in that?). It's a game that offers some relevant lessons for Christmas Day.

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Old Catalog has Christmas Lesson for All

The catalog is filled with things people gladly would accept today, if only to unload them for a tidy sum to a collector on eBay. The Silvertone Imperial Grand radio on page 738 loo...

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