Catalogues from Eatons, Sears, and especially Consumers Distributing are what I wish I had kept the most from the 80s but my parents threw them all away.
Man, yesterday I was sure I saw some guy walk away with a videodisc player ($299 in Sears 1983 catalogue) at Value Village. This is for playing CED discs, these were a sort of videodisc that used VINYL discs and needles just like old records to play video. It was in that wierd gap between the videotape and laserdisc era. A spectacular failure but I've always wanted to see on.
Looking through these just made me very sad and angry at my parents for throwing out so much of my childhood or giving it away to my friends or younger cousins without telling me.
Strange to see things that you have and the prices they retailed for.
This is in the basement, I used it to listen to some records a few weeks ago, but I had to do it via headphones because the actual speakers I have hooked up to my parent's 50" TV for years now.