Wow! I love ordering things from catalogs and so look forward to receiving the item(s). Can you imagine ordering a house and waiting for it to arrive?! What anticipation! :) Lorraine In a message dated 03/20/2005 6:55:28 PM Pacific Standard Time, housman@adelphia.net writes: What you did back then was look through the Sears catalog until you found the sort of house you wanted to build yourself on your own piece of property. You would place the order and Sears would ship by rail freight all of the pieces to the house including window and doors.