Sierra Trading Post: The Outdoor Catalog That Became a Website In December 1986, a husband-and-wife team mailed a 16-page hand-drawn catalog from a 500-square-foot office in Reno, Nevada to 100,000 strangers and waited to see who would call. The merchandise was discounted outdoor gear — brand overruns, closeouts, and …

What Happened to the Sears Catalog? (And How to Earn Today) For most of the twentieth century, the Sears catalog was the way a large portion of American households shopped. Not browsed — shopped. Farm families in Iowa thumbed through its pages for work boots and seed planters. Suburban households in the 1960s ordered …

Heirloom Furniture Catalogs: Where to Shop by Mail and Earn A $3,000 sofa is not an impulse purchase. Neither is a hand-joined dining table that a craftsman in upstate New York spent two weeks building to order. These are the kinds of purchases that heritage furniture brands were made for — and they are also the …

Bag Borrow or Steal: Cashback & Perks on Designer Handbag Rentals A $5,000 Chanel flap for a weekend wedding, or a Louis Vuitton tote for a month of meetings — without the purchase price or the closet space afterward. That is the pitch behind designer-handbag rental, and the question this post answers is narrower than …

Bachrach Menswear: Stacking Cashback & Perks on Suit Orders A suit that lists at $899 and rings up at $99 already feels like the deal is done — so why bother layering anything on top? Because the brands that lead with steep markdowns rarely run a loyalty program to go with them, which means the second and third layers …

Best Kitchen Gadget Catalogs Still Mailing in 2026 The printed kitchen catalog is a shrinking species. A decade ago a cook's mailbox might hold half a dozen glossy cookware books a season; today most of those brands have folded their catalogs into email and an app, and a few well-known names — Chef's Catalog among them …

Frontgate, Grandin Road & Ballard Designs: Cashback Guide Three of the home catalogs most likely to land in a decor shopper's mailbox — Frontgate, Grandin Road, and Ballard Designs — are not independent companies competing for the same living room. They sit under one corporate roof: Cornerstone Brands, the …

How to Request a Free Print Catalog in 2026 A print catalog seems like a relic until you've flipped through one over coffee and circled three things you'd never have found by typing a search box. Brands know this, which is why the free print catalog never died — it converts. In 2026 you can still get glossy catalogs …

Heirloom Seed Catalogs: Best Mail-Order Sources for 2026 The print seed catalog is one of the few mail-order traditions that never really went away. Every winter, a stack of them lands in mailboxes — thick, photo-heavy books that double as planning tools — and gardeners spend the cold months dog-earing pages and …

TopCashback for Catalog Brands: L.L.Bean, Talbots, Chico's Earn Rates TopCashback is a shopping portal built around one simple promise: a click-through from the portal to a participating retailer earns cashback on a qualifying purchase, with the portal returning most of the commission it collects back to the shopper. …