While growing up this was one of my favorite times of the year – Catalog Season. Sears and Roebuck, Montgomery Wards and Spiegel catalogs arrived. Each a couple of inches thick with all the stuff a young lad could need or desire.

Over the next month, I’d search those catalogs and make a list of items I desired for Christmas.

My list was always larger than what I would ever receive, but one could hope and dream. Today the only catalogs I look forward to receiving are Garret Wade’s and Sharper Image, which are more like magazines and not catalogs.

I relish discovering the high-end quality tools in Garret Wade and amazed (and somewhat astonished) at all the technologically advanced gifts available from Sharper Image. If I were to make a Christmas List today it would include the prospector

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