The 12 Days of Donkmas – The Toy Catalog
In honor of the Christmas Season, over the next month I’ll be celebrating the 12 Days of Donkmas, writing about some of my favorite Holiday traditions when I was a child and even from today. You WILL have fun reading them, or else…
Day 1 – The Toy Catalog
For some reason I totally forgot about one of my favorite things about Christmas when I was a kid. But tonight it suddenly came back to me as I sat on the crapper making a yuletide log and glancing through a Brookstone catalog laughing at the overpriced garbage in there.
As I pinched off a loaf, I suddenly remembered how much I used to LOVE looking through those thick-ass toy catalogs that used to be put out by all of the major stores like Sears and JC Penney. My family was pretty poor, so I knew that I wouldn’t be getting too much for Christmas. But that didn’t stop me from circling toy after toy as I drooled all over the glossy pages. I would spend hour after hour enraptured, dog-earing, re-reading and pondering the catalog like it was the frickin Torah.
Above: This Stuff was Like Porn to Me
Inevitably I would be disappointed by what I found under the tree Christmas morning, but that was OK too, because those big catalogs were great for something else as well: starting revenge fires in mom’s ‘72 Malibu.
