Restoration Hardware's Mail-Order Extravagance

I received one of these enormous catalog bundles recently. Only one slim catalog of the entire stack was relevant to me, and the rest went straight to the recycling bin.

With all the information they undoubtedly have about their customers, why not be smarter about what you send?

I vowed never ever to set foot in an RH store again after receiving one of these monstrosities.

Send them USPS.. they can use the business and I'd like my local mail subsidized again..

I thought it was hilarious and ridiculous at the same time. They eventually went to the trash.

David Malki of the web comic Wondermark invented a game called "Restoration Hogwash:"

http://wondermark.com/restoration-hogwash/ - http://wondermark.com/restoration-redux/

One player selects a catalog item and covers up the description; the other players each write a description that they think fits, and then everyone tries to guess which hilariously overwrought description is the original. One of his commenters pointed out that “There are 72 different items [in the catalog] which are described as being made from wood from ‘100-year old buildings in Great Britain’.” There must have been a sale at Home Depot.

He ran a modified version on his blog in which commenters try to describe an item, and he showed them which other item they had actually described. Very funny stuff.