When our five children were young we lived near a dime store called the J and B Store. It was down on Shawnee Mission Highway--called Highway 10 at that time in a small shopping center. We would park in front of the store with the kids in the car and they were each given a dollar to buy four .25 gifts. One of us would accompany the child so they would not duplicate the gift. They would buy the gift and then get back in the car. You could get great gifts for a quarter in this store. They would take them home and wrap them in tissue paper and put under the tree.
Our children loved the Sears and Wards catalog before Christmas and would go through it and write their names under things they wanted, We would share our list with grandparents and they would let us know so we did not duplicate. We had great experiences with this. At Sears one year they never had our order. One day after about five trials the clerk recognized us and said she thought she knew where the order was and they had left the M off of Morgan and we were under Organ.
With Wards one Christmas our order was never there. Ray happened to be covering a story and the executive of Wards was in Kansas City from Chicago to attend the meeting. The executive checked and that night we had a call that they were delivering our order. It seemed the store was not giving the orders out and the manager had the store in a mess. The dresses we ordered for our three daughters were so far down in the pile at the store that we could never get the creases out. We had ordered a Bible for my mother and it was there. We had some new stuff for Steve's train and it was there. Now I do not know if either Sears or Wards even has a Christmas catalog.
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