Sears Enema Bags

I remember seeing the enema sets in the Sears store in the 1960s. I would make it my business to walk over to that section and wonder if the enema would feel different from different bags. I was about 10 at the time.

I never saw enema equipment in the Sears store. That would have been enough to take my breath away. I still like to check the enema bags in the local Walgreen and Wally World stores though. 😃

Being a collector of enema bags, (for my own use, of course,) I have to admire the quality and design of the "Sears Approved" enema bags. Their open top bag has a unique handle, and holds almost (3) quarts of liquid, putting them in the category of the wonderful 3 quart Davol "Paris" open top bag. Sure wish they still had a catalog with all that wonderful old enema equipment!

I can remember seeing enema and douche equipment at Sears. This was still when they had their catalog department inside the store. That was a Long time ago. I do own a Sears combo bag which the likes I have never seen before. It is made of amber latex and will expand to nearly 3 quarts. It's one of my favorite bags.

Growing up in the 50's it was very common to see fountain syringes and bulbs prominently displayed in the local drugstores (Annapolis, Maryland). In some cases, they were actually displayed in front windows. It seemed that every home had one somewhere. On many occasions, when visiting a friend's house, you'd use the bathroom and see the bag hanging on the back of the door. . . and you'd wonder who the last receiver was!

The open display in homes and drug stores ws a good help in understanding that we weren't the only kids in the world to be given enemas. Several times a week, I would pass by our nearby drugstore where an irrigator can just like mom's with coiled hose and nozzle was displayed as part other "sickroom needs" in the window.

I fondly recall enema displays in both Sears and other department stores in the late fifties and early sixties. They were typically diplayed in a glass store-case situated in the women's lingerie area, as many of these devices doubled as Douche appliances.

On those rare occasions that I would see an attractive woman purchasing a fountain syringe, I would fantasize about her taking me in a back room in the store and giving me and enema. I was 11 or 12 then and already totally hooked on enemas.

I still remember that even in the 60's, Sears at Parole Plaza still had them on display. No wonder I hung out there so much. Maybe that is why I am a Craftsman fiend today! ! !

Not only did Sears carry and display enema equipment in the 50s, so did every pharmacy and department store. Now, if you go into a pharmacy to purchase an enema set, they will only direct you to the Fleet section. I guess Rite-Aid will let you order one, but they don't seem to stock them.

You can still buy them at Walgreens and CVS in the feminine hygiene section!

I notice you mention Annapolis. I visited a naval officer buddy of mine there one summer and yup, there it was hanging in the bathroom all ready for when his wife would give his daughters 😉 their several times weekly enemas. He told me they were very big with sailors' wives with daughters in the house. 😜

I fondly remember getting the Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogs and heading straight for the douche and enema bag pages. The bulb douche and enema syringes were particularly fascinating. I looked and enjoyed those pages immensely.

I have a reproduction Sears Catalog from 1904 and one from 1908, as well as a vintage 1939 catalog. All of them have quite a variety of Enema eqipment. Most of the bags were available in 2, 3, or 4qt. capacitiy at that time, with the best ones being 4qt. The nozzles all seem to be a bit thicker and longer than the newer ones. The nozzles on the store bought bags today are a joke as far as I am concerned, being made of cheap plastic with sharp edges and no natural contours to help them stay in by themselves. In the old catalogs, colon tubes were also available.

I know at the time, that money was tight, but the quality of the products made them worth every penny.

Dan

The Sears catalog was my first "dirty book", I couldn't wait for the new one to arrive so that the old one could "disappear"

You can still buy old Sears catalogs on EBAY. The older, the more enema equipmwent.

I loved looking at Sears and Wards catalogs but Sears was the best. First place I looked was at the douche/enema pages and the next big turn on was the girdles.

dbl

Sears bags were (and are) the Rolls Royce of enema bags.

Over the years Sears carried many different designs of bags and bulbs as did Wards and other large department stores. If you(Newtoenemas) are still looking for a Sears bag, then the only place where you might find one is ebay. A fine Sears bag just sold on ebay a few days ago for a little over $100.

Just keep searching ebay and be patient...the 'good stuff' will eventually surface. I recommend using the word 'vintage' in the search box, else you will be inundated with a jungle of cheap bags.

I can remember seeing enema and douche bags displayed with the lid off the boxes in all drug stores when I was a kid in the 1950's. I can also remember trying not to stare. Hotliner

My parents had one that they kept in their bathroom. It came in a plastic box and had the bag, open top latex, tube, which actually inserted into the bottom of the bag - it did not screw on, two nozzles and a hook. The box snapped closed and had a label on the front.

It was the first bag i ever used and had no idea what i was doing i just knew i loved doing it.

In the short span of a couple of years, I have noticed the Enema bags have disappeared from the drug stores in Texas. The only thing left is the fleet bottles. :'(

I always have checked out drug stores as well as Walgreen's and so forth and I have come to a conclusion that the enema bag is being fought against buy many that think chemicals are the way I always loved sears for the displays and the catalog where I could just imagine the bags in my house and the sneaking and enema with out antbody noticing or saying I had a tummy ache.

I really think it is time for a enema bag revaluation so everybody will know how great the bag is and how healthy it is and make you feel with bags at arms lets charge the world 😁

Thinking of the SEARs bags brings back a flood of memories. And, they used to have a bunch of different models. Nowadays, all we have are Walgreens and CVS who sell the Faultless generic feaux-rubber plastic crummy bags. The hoses are often too stiff and kink all the time and the douche nozzle usually has a seam of flashing on it that has to be carved off with a kife or razor blade.

I don't know what rubber company made the bags for Sears, but they were Cadillac in quality. I believe they made one in their "best" category (good, better, best)that held 3 qts., had the hose screw-on to the bottom of the bag, a la Davol Paris,and had screw-on pipes that were the best available. I recall those going for the ridiculously high price of like $8.00, in the 50's. A far cry from the over $200.00 prices we pay now for a good Klystra bag. Some things about the "good old days", were REALLY GOOD!

According to my father, as recently as the late 1970s the Montgomery Ward catalog listed one closed-top, hot water bottle type douche enema syringe.

It was gone several years before Montgomery Wards shut down their catalog.

By the time he was old enough to remember, Montgomery Wards was already in a long, slow, maddening decline. Closely paralleling what happened to Eaton's in Canada just about a decade later.

For a picture of the enema page in the 1945 Sears Catalog see: Gallery, Enemas, Equipment and devices, Antique Enema Equipment, page two, picture 68.

- Win

The Sears store on Harrisburg in Houston had a full display of white rubber enema bags with the boxes open. The deluxe models were HOT. I bought one in the 60s. Walgreens often had TYSON syringes displayed in the store window, They were featured in local newspapers as a sale item. The Walgreen stores featured avocado green Monarch deluxe syringes inside the store. For some reason those looked especially serious to a young kid. I'm not sure how many times I made it past the display window or past that special aisle. Skillern Drugs in Fort Worth had a large display of syringes along the back wall, but, you know, I never looked.....

Love the talk of the old bags and hose. When I purchase a new bag I go to the Menards Home Depot to the plumbing department and in the plastic tubing I find Latex 1/4" in 8 foot lenths. Just fine for the equipment. Enjoy bobboenem

Just one thing you might consider,,as someone said "I recall those going for the ridiculously high price of like $8.00, in the 50's. A far cry from the over $200.00 prices we pay now".....in the 50's $8 silver dollars bought a nice bag kit,, well todays price of silver (over $30/oz.) 8 silver dollars @$30 equal to $240 BUCKS...

Enema equipment hasnt got more expensive, our money has lost its value!!!! when i started werkin i made 12 silver dimes ($1.20)per hour, and gas cost 2 silver dimes, now gas cost ($30silver) gas is just over a silver dime per gallon (3bucks and change),, and minimum wage is LESS than 3 silver dimes per hour...we have been and contimue to be ROBBED by our leaders! just a thought

I was fortunate to be the winning e-bayer on a "Sears approved" white open-top about four years ago. The big brown box says it's a "Model 2309," and the address of Sears on the box does not include a zip code. It was guaranteed for five years, but by now it's probably fifty or more years old. It's very strongly made, and has the little handle referred to above. It holds 90 ounces (26.6 deciliters, 2660 cc) and is in pristine condition. With this bag you could enemize a regiment!

Speaking of storefront displays, several yers ago I was killing time in downtown Farmington NM when I spotted a fine display in a drugstore window. They had a mannequin, painted all gold, with an amber folding travel syringe draped over her hand, and a small selection of boxed enema bags at her feet.. If I had that moment to live over again, I would go in and buy their entire stock of amber bags and worry about how to carry them home in the airplane later!!

Hugs,

Diane