The Nineties were also the heyday of Martha Stewart and Living magazine. My roommate used to get the catalogs, which were relentless and showed up at least 8-10 times a year. (Williams Sonoma was the same.) She never kept them long, so I’d add them to my stack of collage fodder. Meaning to cut into them but never doing so.
Fast-forward to the year that Stewart got a fresh burst of publicity after being released from jail. I had long since moved to my new place and MR_Potroast moved in with me a year later. I still had that stack of untouched catalogs and we needed some cash. On a whim, we put the stack on ebay to see what would happen. A ferocious bidding war broke out and we ultimately pocketed well over $100. Which was unusual for us both since we were only hobby ebay brokers, not the real thing. Thanks, Martha. <3