Here are the catalogues that came to our house this past week.

(Save in a box or basket all the catalogues that arrive at your home for one week, and empty them out in front of the congregation.)

Order anything from any catalog and you immediately get on the mailing list for hundreds of others.

Depending upon your attitude, these catalogs can either be a delightful escapist fantasy, or a miserable consumeristic experience in "wannabe-ness."

Here are some exclusive, high-end catalogs. These are especially fun . . . and frustrating. For males, there's Sporty's catalog, which offers four and five digit big-boy toys (boats, deluxe grills, golf carts with mini-bars!). Here's Neiman-Marcus (a.k.a. "Needless Markup") for that ankle length fur or double strand of pearls that you "need".

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