The Wish Book
Do you remember wish books? I remember looking through catalogs when I was a kid and circling the toys I wanted. The possibilities were endless in the Sears or J.C. Penney catalogs.

Those childhood catalog days bred the wish book desire and obsession into my soul. I’ve always been one to pour over catalogs and wish for all the pretty things I found inside. And with the Internet… the wishing possibilities are infinite.

Until a couple of months ago, I had diligently avoided ebay.com afraid that I wouldn’t be able to control myself. I was right to avoid it. I broke down recently and searched ebay for a vintage perfume bottle and found more choices than I could navigate and too many that I wanted to buy. My one item gift turned out to be a disaster in over spending. I have since realized that although ebay is a wonderful thing. I don’t think it’s for me. I don’t like being in a bidding war and I don’t like having to leave pleasing little feedback comments after the item arrives. Too much work involved. I just want to buy what I want and wait for it to come in the mail. I don’t want to be spammed in my inbox with reminders to leave “feedback”. That’s why amazon.com and I are good friends. (Amazon even has a wish list!) I buy what I want and they mail it to me. No fuss, no bidding wars, no hassle, just good old-fashioned purchase power.

While you can find anything with google, I still peruse all my favorite stores websites online. However, I love sitting down with a catalog and flipping through the pages and finding all the possibilities inside. A tribute to my childhood I’m sure. Lately I’ve been obsessed with the 2008 Ikea catalog and my growing need for a bigger DVD storage unit. Ikea has endless storage possibilities!

A new wish book found its way to my house the other day in the mail. I received a Pottery Barn catalog belonging to someone on an adjacent street with the same house number as mine. I’m sure that lady whoever she may be is missing her catalog because I’ve been pouring over the pages and finding new things to wish for.

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