Bed and Bath Catalogs: Building a Better Night's Sleep by Mail A general department store handles bedding the way it handles most categories: a rack of packaged sheet sets in a handful of colors, a shelf of comforters sized to fit the season's clearance, and very little room for the kind of comparison shopping that a …

I started Home Shopping Guide because the mail-order catalog world is bigger and more fragmented than most people realize. There are hundreds of catalogs for home furniture, appliances, outdoor living, garden, and décor — ranging from major retailers everyone knows to specialty houses that have been shipping to loyal …