Sears Enema Bags

Heres a link to a 1908 sears catalog enema pag http://www.mum.org/syrin08.htm wish companys still had catalogs with this in it....

What I find interesting is the prices. Wouldn't $2.00 be about $35 equivalent today? I guess this is a major piece of equipment to make back then, so the price would be justified....

Water wetter...I too have original "bygone era" boxed products still with their what seems inexpensive price stickers attached...But really all it reflects is the economical conditions of the time

The large white rubber Sears stamped bag tends to illicit silly prices, though finding them can be elusive...How many in the current day have expended more than 10 times their then face value to acquire such items - I have

Many of Sears marked products were "private label" items made by some other company, but with a Sears name put onto them. Their "J.C. Higgins" brand of many items were very good, but not made by Sears. I had a J.C. Higgins bike that was top notch. That name also appeared on shotguns, hardware, large appliances, etc.

The early Faultless brand syringes were made by Faultless Rubber Co., Ashland, Ohio. By the 50's, all Sears syringes carried the actual Sears name, but were supplied by some other rubber company that had a "Private Label" agreement with Sears. I used to study the syringes in the Sears catalogs and had pretty much ruled out Davol, BF Goodrich, but I think some of their bags resembled the Rexall private label name bags. That leaves U.S. Rubber Co and a couple others who made bags. Some of the Sears brand bags were very high quality and a few held 3 qts., with screw on nozzles. I never found out WHO made the Sears "Private Label" bags, but they were certainly very fine products, large in capacity and heavy duty in strength of rubber.

Sort of like the "Craftsman" brand of tools sold by Sears. They are some of the best made, but not by Sears themselves.

Since an Enema bag is a "tool", and Sear's guarantees tools, I wonder if they would replace one of their old worn out bags with a like quality one.

Yes, Guilty as charged! I looked at the Sears catalog every chance I got once I found our what enemas were for. I had no idea about douches and thought the curved douche nozzle was just an adult curved rectal pipe. Would like to try one of those someday. A friend of mine's mother had several in her dresser drawer. Yea, we did some snooping in those days too.

Craftsman tools were made by a company called EASCO out of Baltimore.

It is still around Here is the twist Easco dealers are a lot of companies like Heavy Vehicle parts and construction equipment dealers and others that don't deal much with the general public.

Easco and Sears in Sears heyday sold the SAME tools. Both offered lifetime guarantees, but neither honored the other's guarantee.

We kept the Sears catalog in the out-house. When we started using rolled toilet paper, we believed we had arrived to importance!

I saved back certain pages that needed further study. That great bulb with thick curved pipe and bib was a total mystery, but I believed the more I looked at it then its purposeful application would appear to me, as everything else in the big book did, just about. When my brother found my prize paper, he put it to proper use and let me know he had just wiped his butt with it and for me to not worry about it getting lost, but was surely settled at the bottom with another's load on top of it. Later I found where he had hid it. I bravely showed it to mom and explained where he had it hid out. Then while I was at it, I asked, as if I had never seen it before, what it might be?? She said I'd have to wait for dad to get home and ask him. Mom was plenty smart, I just ignorantly took her for a sucker, which dad helped me to understand better! We both got the spanking. " Boys, bring me my belt and let's talk about it." he would say. I was ignorant in that I had to be told certain things and could not listen to my self. And the more I acted ignorant, the more dad was sure i was acting. Well, in a month or two, one of us discovered we had one! And then, and then, and then, Ank, ank, we tried it out!

In the '50's and 60's the Sears and Montgomery catalogues always had one or more pictures of "combination" enema/hot water bottles. I always enjoyed looking at them especially before I got the courage to go buy my first enema bag. But the biggest treat of all the catalogues was when someone re-published the Sears catalogue from about 1910. The variety of nozzles !!! I would have loved to be a youngster then and to have had the opportunity to find a way of experiencing most of those nozzles in my rectum!

The arrival of the latest Sears or Wards catalogs were big events for us. As soon as I had some private time the page was open to the enema equipment. Such an amazing selection. I didn't know how it all worked yet but I knew enough about the bulbs and bags to imagine some of the rest.

Next to check out was the womens underwear. In those days most was plain white and quite utilitarian compared to the Victoria's Secrets offerings of today. Of course, I always had a finger between the pages of the bikes or guns or something to quickly flip back just in case someone came into the room.

As a young boy, I couldn't wait whenever the new, big Sears & Roebuck catalog arrived at our house so that I could check out the Home Medical pages to view all the enema bag adds. Both of the enema bags in our home that mom used on me were two quart combination hot water bottle / enema syringes. So, reading the illustrations for the three quart folding feminine syringes made me wonder what it would be like to get an enema from one, especially those featuring anatomically" shaped spray nozzles.

As I grew older, I began to seek out old Sears & Wards catalogs and cut out the enema adds for my "scrap-book". And. of course, I finally have a wide assortment of those "special" nozzles which get used often.

The Sears catalogues had extensive displays of enema bags in the 30s,40s,50s and early 60s.They were usually displayed as "good""better"or"best"Ill bet that the "bests"are the ones that we see on EBay and that will be around for another 50 years!

Considering that the Sears & Roebuck catalog was a staple in our house when I was a child, and that my folks would place a couple fairly large orders each year from the catalog, I strongly suspect that the red bag and hose with the black bakelite enema nozzle that was used on me as a child very likely came from Sears & Roebuck. I suppose that it could have come from our in-town Rexall Drugstore, but my guess is Sears. This would have been in the 1940's and early 1950's.

Holy mackerel, when I was coming up I thought I was the only one who would seek out syringes, enema bags and all the related paraphernalia that want with them, both in the Sears catalog and in the various pharmacies. After coming to Zity and being exposed to all you guys, it's quite likely that we passed each other at one time or another looking at all the good stuff. More than a few of you all I know can relate. 😉

I wrote an earlier piece concerning my personal happenings concerning myself and my Mother and the Sears and Roebuck catalog. Every time I think about those catalogs I smile and try and remember how Mother caught me looking at those catalogs. Great memories!

Sadly, I am old enough to remember when the Sears catalogue was far more exciting and entertaining.

I too remember looking at the Sears catalogs in the mid sixties when I was around 11 years old. I spent a lot of time looking at those pages. All my childhood enemas were administered with a bulb syringe, so the Sears catalog was where I discovered that there was another method when I saw the enema bags, or as they called them fountain syringes or combination syringes. I could only imagine what it would feel like to have one of those used on me. It is also where I discovered that women douched by looking at the feminine hygiene bulb syringes and the douche nozzles that were included with the fountain syringes. The Montgomery Wards catalog also had a full selection of "rubber goods" as well, along with the Aldens catalog. Those catalogs were an eye opening educational experience for me. I was particularly fascinated by one top line combination syringe in, I think the Sears catalog, that featured an inline "force-flo bulb". Getting an enema from that set-up must have been a real experience.

I was waiting in an exam room a few years ago and there was a reproduction of about a 1905 catalog laying there. Of course I had to look for those pages...........sort of wish now, that I would have been brave enough to start a conversation about those hydrotherapy devices..........might have been fun.

How long did it take you to figure out that the bag does not have that much effect on the feel of the enema?

Main things that affect the feel are volume, formula and position.

While every enema is different and no two enemas you take with the same bag are ever going to be identical, changing the bag will probably have little effect.

I certainly remember wearing out the enema and girdle pages of the Sears and Wards catalogs. I expect mom knew of my interest as you could see those pages along with the ones for electric trains were very worn.

Sadly by the time I was born sears no longer had the enema section

From what I have read in the last day or so about Sears, it appears soon Sears will have nothing.

Ya....kind of a shame about Sears because their Craftsman tools were actually pretty decent, and Sears stood behind them. Unfortunately, the rest of the stuff they carried was pretty run-of-the mill product, and millenials don't buy their clothes at Sears.

Interestingly:

My husband tells me:

Sears Craftsman tools are made by a Baltimore-based company called Easco.

There are some auto parts stores but mostly heavy vehicle and specialty auto parts stores that sell Easco tools.

They are identical to Craftsmen in every way.

EXCEPT that while BOTH are Guaranteed forever, if you break one just bring it back and get a full replacement, the two companies DON'T honor each other's guarantees.

Craftsman has to be brought back to Sears and Easco to some place that sells their brand. EVEN THOUGH THE ARE MADE SIDE BY SIDE ON THE SAME ASSEMBLY LINE!!

It was essentially availability that made Sears bags popular.

They were likely not better or worse than anything else that was available in the bigger cities at the drug store.

Up till WWII America was a country with a vast rural population. Even when the suburbs started to grow after the war it was often the case that suburban shopping was limited. It was the late 1960s before it caught up with and the 1970s before suburban shopping really passed what was available downtown.

Sears had the advantage, as did Eaton's in Canada of having a complete catalog and having every item i it available everywhere by mail order. As a result, Sears enema bags, And douche bulbs like everything else in the catalog could be had in places well outside of town.

As a youngster in the 40's and early 50's, we lived in the "boondocks" of central Michigan, where a trip to town about once every week or two was for getting groceries and the basic essentials. Likewise, the Sears & Roebuck catalog was a major source for many of the hand-tools, clothes, basic small appliances and sundry items used around the farm. The folks would generally make about two "major buys" from that catalog each year (including from the Toy Catalog at Christmas-time), and I strongly suspect that our red enema bag probably was delivered in one of those shipments as well. Sears was our "One Stop Shop" back in those days. And Yes, I have to admit that I enjoyed sneaking a look in the Sears Catalog at all the different enema bags and douche bulbs they displayed.......thinking, "I sure would like to have that nozzle in my butt, while getting filled up with a nice warm Ivory SSE".

I would always look in the catalog at the line of enema bags and bulbs.and i remember montgomery wards had a enema bag section if my memory serves me correctly

As a youngster I looked forward to viewing the ' enema syringe ' pictures in the then ' Sears and Roebuck ' catalogs that my mom subscribed to in the 1950's and early 1960's where I would read the printed detailed descriptions of each ' enema / douche bag / bulb ' so illustrated and long to be ' enemaed ' by ' my favorite bag / bulb ' from the hands of a caring mom which in another section of the ' Sears ' catalog were depicted in the ladies lingerie section . These women were so ' pretty and feminine ' in their ' lovelies ' and were so ' mom like ' such that in my mind and possibly ' fantasy ' I wished these ladies were giving me an enema . I still have several now ' vintage ' Sears catalogs and review them often as per the above depictions of the ladies and the enema syringes some of which , according to the advertisements , were of a ' three quart capacity ' . Interesting .......... those were the days and I am still into ' vintage ' ............

I remember always looking at the enema equipment in the Sears Catalogue when it came. I have an old Montgomery Ward Catalogue from the 1940's that I found that is about the same as the Sears. The Sears catalogue was always a high point when it came.

Who could forget? I remember specifically that the Sears offerings came in various configurations. There wasone with an inline bulb pump, that claimed it would deliver the fluid deeper for a more thorough cleansing they also offered both 2 & 4 quart options. Those options were only avalable on the order line, which is why many folks missed them. I always wished I could order their "best," with the pump, in the largest size...

I remember seeing enema bags in the catalogs too, also the local drug store had a nice selection of bags and nozzles. Drugstores today, they're so tucked away you have to go ask and then there's only one type.