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Buyer's Recourse: There's a Catalogue to Fit Your Whim

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Flip through . . . Bronner's Christmas Favorites.

Located in a stadium-size Michigan store, Bronner's is the kind of all-Christmas all-the-time experience that takes a very special personality to appreciate. The catalogue version contains yer basic angel/harps/bells/hospital scrubs/gherkin pickles/beer-stein ornaments. And then it also has some weird stuff.

Like . . . cellphone ornaments. Digital-camera ornaments. Half-eaten peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich ornaments. How about this one, on Page 43: a molar wearing a Santa hat ($16.99)? "All I want for Christmas is one shiny tooth," ad copy reads. Now that's just sad.

Buy . . . The "Legend of Bigfoot" ornament for $8.99. Because . . . just, because.

If you want to feel . . . an exciting blend of envious, repulsed and baffled.

Flip through . . . Neiman Marcus's "Christmas Book."

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