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 …

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. …

Ibotta vs TopCashback: Which Cashback Site Wins for Catalog Orders Ibotta and TopCashback both pay shoppers cashback, but they were built for different jobs, and the difference matters for anyone placing catalog and online orders. TopCashback is a click-through shopping portal in the classic mold; Ibotta started as a …

Talbots & Chico's Loyalty Programs: Stacking Points With Portals Talbots and Chico's are two of the better-known names in women's catalog apparel, and both run loyalty programs that reward repeat shoppers with points, certificates, and member perks. For a catalog shopper, the loyalty program is the one reward layer …