Pinterest is the New Catalog

<p>As a child growing up in the 1970s, Christmas meant one thing: the JCPenney Christmas catalog was coming. The catalog had — in the minds of my friends and siblings — every toy known to mankind. We'd dog-ear corners and tear out pages, agonizing over what we thought Santa should bring us. My sister was furious with me for tearing out a page one year. I wanted to hang a picture of the “Planet of the Apes” treehouse on my bedroom wall, not realizing that Malibu Barbie was on the flip side. First world problems in third grade.</p> ...