Did anyone get those I got them every Christmas my parents gave me a pen and said circle the things you want I never got anything I circled
Yessiree!!! It helped when My worked at a Sears Catalog store.
Great stuff you can find in the Wish Book , in which would turn into a bunch of smaller books in the Comming seasons!!
Great stuff you can find in the Wish Book , in which would turn into a bunch of smaller books in the Comming seasons!!
I loved the wishbooks, I would do the same thing and circle the things I wanted. JCPenny also had a good wish book. Thats all replaced with the internet now. Sad, I loved those days I would spend hours loking through those catologs.
Thanks alot, after this thread I went on ebay and bought a 1988 wishbook. Nastalgia gets exspensive sometimes.
Here's a few pages we posted a while back i think i have some more i'll have to look.
:) http://www.retrojunk.com/forums/index.php?view=posts&fid=5&tid=25551 :)
:) http://www.retrojunk.com/forums/index.php?view=posts&fid=5&tid=25551 :)
yes my cousin and I could sit on our aunt's couch for hours and circle and tell each other what we wanted
thanks Debbie
thanks Dreamy
slp101
4 Posts
16 years, 3 months ago
I marked the beginning of Christmas. I would be so excited when I would find it in the mail. I would start looking for it in the summer. My mom would tell me to make a list, and I would circle almost every toy.
90skid555
Did anyone get those I got them every Christmas my parents gave me a pen and said circle the things you want I never got anything I circled
Dude, that was my mother's defacto standard for my Christmas wishlist.
Yep, I used to do that. My grandmother got the catalog and had all us grandkids go through it and mark what we wanted.
pokinsmot
574 Posts
16 years, 3 months ago
i loved that thing. id end up circling just about everything on it. same w/ the JC Penny catalog. those were the days.
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Most definitely. That was also how my Grandma shopped for us. I'd sit at her dining room table and circle the toys that I wanted.
kylewhite
2790 Posts
16 years, 3 months ago
I always drew mustaches on people in those books.
If i didn't read this I probably would have never thought about this again...which would have been sad! I can remember exact pages and the feeling I got thinking about the possibilities...It was so exciting. :D
Thanks for the memories..
Thanks for the memories..
System
79987 Posts
16 years, 3 months ago
I love reading these, man! I loved the copies that showed screenshots for most of the games advertised! 8)
I remember how giant size that book was one time I show my Great Grandmother the stuff I want my parents to buy me. All The Welcome Back Kotter , Starky and Hutch, Lenny and Squiggy, and Happy Days stuff.
Funky_Guy
2638 Posts
16 years, 3 months ago
The best part of the Sears Wishbook for me was the Lego section where they showed all the different sets fully built. Lego sometimes got 8 to 10 pages all of their own in the toy section.
I got Toys R Us catologe for christmas. I knew that I would never get the Expenisve toys but they were Fun to look at
seth_381
33 Posts
16 years, 3 months ago
I also got them but from my grandparents and sometimes I got what I circled but most of the time I didn't I usually got what I wanted by telling them :roll:
do they still make wishbooks ? I haven't had one since like 2000 or 2001 but by now I'm to old for that stuff but a little nostalgia is good.
do they still make wishbooks ? I haven't had one since like 2000 or 2001 but by now I'm to old for that stuff but a little nostalgia is good.
Funky_Guy
2638 Posts
16 years, 3 months ago
I saw one from last year, it was dire. All the good stuff was gone and was replaced by cheap crap and imitations.
seth_381
33 Posts
16 years, 2 months ago
that sucks but time = change and change isn't always best for things.