Grandma Used the Sears Catalog as Toilet Paper (And That's Not Even the Craziest Part)

Well, hello again, dear. Did you know you could once order a whole house from the Sears catalog? It came on a train, in thirty thousand pieces. Tonight we go back to the Sears catalog, then and now: the 1950 book that was bigger than the Bible (and ended up in the outhouse), the Wish Book you circled until the toy pages fell out, the portrait studio at the mall, and how Christmas shopping works today. By the end I'll tell you how many Sears stores are left in the whole country. What was the first thing YOU circled in the Wish Book? And did you get it? Tell me in the comments. I read every one. 00:00 A house from a catalog? 00:45 1950: the biggest book in the house 01:33 70,000 houses by mail 04:02 1975: the Wish Book 06:25 1995: 834 pages and the mall 07:53 Today 08:21 The old Wish Book and my great-grandson Archive films: Prelinger Archives (public domain). Photos: Wikimedia Commons (public domain / free licenses). Stock video: Pexels.