Bring the Tropics Home: Rare Plant Catalogs and Cashback Rare-plant collecting has quietly become a catalog business again. A cutting-culture surge that once ran almost entirely through Instagram auctions and Facebook resale groups has pushed specialty growers back toward the model outdoor and apparel brands relied on …

Stacking Cashback on a Max Tool Order A cordless combo kit, a generator, a compressor — the orders that make tool shopping worth optimizing are the ones running into the hundreds or low thousands of dollars, and that is exactly the size of purchase where a percentage-based rebate stops being pocket change. Max Tool is …

Sierra Trading Post: The Outdoor Catalog That Became a Website In 1986, a husband-and-wife team in Reno, Nevada put out a 16-page catalog of hand-drawn merchandise printed in duotone, run from 500 square feet of office space. The merchandise was discounted outdoor gear — brand overruns, closeouts, and surplus lots sold …

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 designer flap bag for a weekend wedding, or a structured 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 "is …

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 have disappeared entirely. …

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, part of QVC …

How to Request a Free Print Catalog in 2026 Go to the brand's own website, find its "Request a Catalog" page, and fill in your name and mailing address. That is the whole process for most retailers that still print a catalog, and it costs nothing. The harder part is finding which brands still mail one and where their …

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 …