Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for November 30, 2024

I was always so excited to get the xmas catalogs when I was Alice’s age.

There’s so many it requires a second trip the next time.

A horrible flashback to my days as a rural mail carrier.

True story going back fifteen years or so. Local man has accident and can’t get any wood in for the winter. He decided to order as many magazines as he possibly could. The post office was delivering magazines by the tub-load for weeks. He learned how to burn them in his wood stove and made it through the winter. Pure genius?

‘The times they are a changen’.’

Well that dates this strip.

Cata-lanche.

And no Sears Christmas catalogue. “SIGH”………………….

Looks like bills from here.

And here I thought it was Dill delivering his stick of the day! :)

Those sure add a lot of weight to a mail carrier’s bag not to mention Christmas cards etcetera. I sent out 20 cards for Thanksgiving, repeat for Christmas. I need more stamps.

Once upon a time that would have been T.P. For a year for the outhouse. Here it is a child’s leaf pile. Today we get mostly digital ads and spam. I used to like spam when it came in a can. Things change.

Actually got a toy catalog from Amazon.

Is there a Toys R Us catalog in there?

Good Old Monkey Ward????? Saints Preserve Us! They are now selling “sexual aids.” That’s where I got my Go-Go boots as a child! :)

Every one of those catalogs come with the disclamer “This could be your last catalog if you don’t act now.” … We should be so lucky!

We have several large empty buildings where they printed, collated, and bound the Sears and Wards catalogs. They were so involved with the catalog that they never organized the digital images and put them into an online ordering system.