Modern Lifestyle's: A catalog parody

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Possibly as an anti-junkmail statement, I began looking resentfully

at the catalogs that clogged up the mailbox of my shop-happy Mother.

But there was also  a kind of sympathetic admiration for the copywriters

who brought the backstories of these weird products to life.
I've served in those very copy trenches for many, many billable hours.

A handcrafted magazine from long ago, some of which remains funny, 

some of which remains a charming attempt at funny. It's as if a saloon-and-quarry-based town tried for their own version of The New Yorker, if that helps. Proceed with caution.