I don't know what year this ad was from. Look at those prices.

Think about what the person stitching all that together was making. lol

the catalog is from 1908. https://archive.org/details/1908catalogueno10000sear

I talked to someone last week who lived in a house bought through the Sears Roebuck Catalog. They were huge. Amazon is similar to them today.

Keith

My pap had a real old Sears catalog I wish I still had it! They had everything imaginable! A deluxe hammock was like 75 cents!!
Shotguns super cheap
Thing was like a Bible. Pages upon pages of goodies

Of course they used to buy fur as well.

Back in the day, Sears and Roebuck sold EVERYTHING a family could want or need.

Back in the late 90s we lived in a Sears and roebuck kit home it was actually a deluxe model, one night we had a knock on the door and the lady outside rather embarrassed asked if her dad could come in and look at the house he had cancer and wasn’t expected to live much longer and wanted to see the home he had grown up in and his dad had built, he told us a lot of interesting things and I would have liked hearing more

I always get a kick whenever these type posts come me up because you always hear I wish things were that cheap nowadays and what they always fail to realize is that people were paid a lot less then and what they take for cheap prices often are when compared to prices and wages nowadays are often relatively more expensive

My mothers first job for example paid .35 cents an hour that was in 1930 most men were making about .10 cents more

My first saddle came out of the Sears ranch and farm catalog that was late 70s

I bought a cedar strip canvas canoe,paddles and some #4 victor dls beaver traps from simpson sears catalogue back around 1968.

Most good saddles today are going to start at about $3500 new. I've good about 8 old saddle from that era.

You are 100% correct. Used to wipe my butt with their catalog pages. Then they got slippery and useless.

I currently have, and occasionally use, a Sears boat, outboard , and shotgun.

I believe i have a sears boat too

I still occasionally rake hay with a hay rake that was sold by Sears that my grandfather purchased from them in the 1950's

Most good saddles today are going to start at about $3500 new. I've good about 8 old saddle from that era.[/quote]


Yes, those saddles are now collectors items, if they're in decent shape. Some are still in business, like Miles City , Hamley, etc. My Hamley , 1923 form fitter , served me well riding absolutely everyone, regardless of size or weight. The only thing is that those old saddles are so heavy.

A cowboy paying $ 10-20 dollars for a saddle back then took up a lot of paychecks ...but they had a lifelong investment.

^^^ around 1969 I got a saddle for $80 and the Pony came with it.

I remember the pony offer ...by then, I was a more grown up girl with my own full size horses.

I have fond memories of the big thick Sears catalog we would get when I was a kid. I remember looking through that wish book circling items and folding the corners of the pages. Santa clause must have looked at it to see what I wanted for Christmas too.