Comments on: Circle Therapy

By: Dee/reddirtramblings

Dee/reddirtramblings — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:17:05 +0000

Whenever I get a chance to read your blog, I feel like we’re sitting in my kitchen having coffee (or tea,) and you are echoing my feelings. I circled Sears & Roebuck, but I love the sentiment that circles are free. Dream big.~~Dee

By: Minnesotamom

Minnesotamom — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:01:26 +0000

I totally did this as a little girl, too. JC Penney it was for me, too.

By: Sally

Sally — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:20:01 +0000

I used to do that with my cousins in the Sears catalog at our grandparents’ house and I looked forward to it every year, even though I never actually got any of the stuff I circled!!!

By: Renna

Renna — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:23:02 +0000

I remember doing the same thing with the Montgomery Wards and Sears catalogues. I also copied the clothes to make new outfits for my paperdolls. You’re right about the circling. I knew I’d never get all that stuff, but the pretending was fun!

By: S.

S. — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:56:14 +0000

Oh, how I remember doing this in the Penney’s catalog. What fun! Thanks for reminding me!
S.

By: Fraulein

Fraulein — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:44:00 +0000

To my knowledge I have NEVER ordered anything from Harry and David, yet like clockwork every November they start sending me catalogs. This has gone on for years!

By: Vintage Mommy

Vintage Mommy — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:39:54 +0000

Sometimes when I’m looking at a catalog and love everything, I mark the things I don’t want . . . I don’t know why that’s fun.

We are fairly fixated on American Girl around here these days and spend quite a bit of time looking at the catalog together.

By: Shelly W.

Shelly W. — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:27:51 +0000

Oh, what sweet memories! I used to let my girls do that too. Two of them would circle pretty much everything in the catalogue, but one would take her time and only circle the things she realistically thought we could afford. She’s the one I always say would make someone a very good wife someday.

By: denise

denise — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:26:05 +0000

I introduced the “circling” activity to my daughters not long ago, and now they’re circle crazy! Every time I open up a catalog or ad, I see their blue and red circles (they even had the wisdom to choose their own special color for circling). It makes me smile when I look at the stuff they’re marking . . . oddly, none of the things I’ve had in mind for Christmas presents!

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:57:13 +0000

We were of the one item per page variety also. I had 3 sisters. We used to play a game where we would open the book, pick an item in our head and give clues for the other sisters to figure out which item we were looking at. So much free entertainment!