General shopping catalogs offer so much fun and diversion from our daily chores and issues as well as fill the need when you need to make a purchase for yourself or a gift for someone special.

Welcome to our Shopping Catalog site which suggests a few of the favorites you can spend time with on a rainy night in the comfort of your home. The variety of items available through catalogs is amazing. Are you interested in a bath lifter for a disabled member of your family? Or would you like to have a heart defibrillator on hand for a heart patient? How about an adult tricycle for safe outdoor exercise?

From items of clothing to kitchen, bath and electronic gadgets to cleaning aids and garden aids, look over the following print and online catalogs to see what’s new in the affordable and upper-sphere specialty worlds for all ages.

HarrietCarter.com
Since 1958, Harriet Carter and her family have been filling orders from their catalogs, growing from working at her kitchen table to their 300,000 square foot warehouse/office. Today the family adds over 1,000 new products a year to their full color catalogs. You have the ability to order helpful products and gifts from their print catalog, web site, fax and phone.

The catalog offers new arrivals, specials, clearance sales and web exclusives. They have household gadgets like a pie pan with a mesh bottom to keep crusts crisp, an onion keeper to reduce refrigerator odors.

Cleaning aids, laundry dryer balls, a Tobi steamer and cedar scented closet hooks are among their inventory. Looking for a battery tester or charger, outlet adapters or electronic charger pockets? What about a hobby knife set, laptop tables, motion sensor lights or leather wipes, placard protectors, metal TV trays and more. Are you getting ready for winter in the garden? Do you need gutter traps, a garden torch or a bird bath cover? Items for every room in the house and a gadget for every need are available. Check out their catalog now.

FirstStreetOnline.com
From Colonial Heights, VA, firstSTREET surfaces as a leading provider of remarkable innovative products for the over-50 market in the U.S. Their customers have access to the latest helpful items that assist seeing, hearing and sleeping better as well as all kinds of fun gadgets and even gifts for grandchildren. Enjoy more of your leisure time by checking out the unique products offered in their catalog. Among the recent brands created are the Jitterbug™ phone, Archimedes Bath Lift™ , TV Ears™, HeartStart Defibrillator™, Dialogue Speaker™ and Novel Reader™ to name a few.

Their interactive toys and games are perfect for the grandkids. Gadgets have long made life easier for all of us, no matter the age or sex. Sold through firstSTREET is a specially designed SENIORS® Go Computer for those who haven’t had the opportunity to learn computers. How about an atomic talking watch, or a medical alarm, or a flat panel wall heater with remote? There is an amazing array of safety tub bars, a comfort uplift seat assistant, and a home beer brewery for the guys. Have some fun checking out this site.

Blair.com
In 1910 from his home in Warren, PA, John Blair sold black raincoats using flyers sent through the mail. Now some 100 years later, Blair has grown to a company that offers more items than can be listed here. They design their own fashions as well as offer products from others for men, women, children and pets. Available are women’s blazers and jackets, suits and coordinated outfits, dresses and skirts, pants and jeans, swimwear, loungewear as well as tops and sweaters.

For men they have big and tall sizes in suits and sport coats, pants and jeans, shirts and ties, sleep and underwear, sweaters and Western wear, shorts and swimwear. Check out their home items as well as holiday gifts, jewelry for him and her, games and puzzles and pet supplies. You can’t go wrong – they’ve covered all of the bases.

It is simply amazing when you stop to think about it; just about everything and anything can be acquired through shopping catalogs which must number in the thousands.

While the first catalogs were the Montgomery Ward and then the Sears mail order catalogs that enabled folks out in rural areas to purchase their farming and household supplies via correspondence, today’s catalogs offer high tech equipment, electronic gadgets, kitchen appliances, bathroom fixtures, home and office furniture, cosmetics and beauty supplies, apparel, jewelry, gifts and flowers, tableware, linens, bedding, food stuff and beverages, prepared meals, toys and games as well as large ticket items such as vacation packages, real estate property and motor vehicles.

To start building your shopping catalog library, begin with the following: