Rush Gideon Home, Kitchen & Gift Catalog

Rush Gideon Home, Kitchen & Gift Catalog

RushGideon — styled as one word on the company's own site — was a mail-order and online catalog built around what its own pages called "an uncommon collection of products from around the world": kitchen and entertaining pieces, tea and barware, home decor, jewelry, and outdoor living items sold from a single Midwest warehouse. The company launched its first catalog in 2004 and operated as RushGideon, LLC out of an office and warehouse at 11160 Aurora Avenue in Des Moines, Iowa, according to the company's own "About Us" page, archived by the Wayback Machine while the business was still shipping orders. Five founders — named on that page as Neil, Scott, Steve, Tammy, and Janet — said they named the business after the grandfather of one of them, a retailer active roughly a century before the catalog launched, and described the company's approach as "the old fashioned way of doing business rooted in honesty, respect, compassion, and fairness."

The RushGideon homepage, archived in January 2012, organized its full catalog under a "Products For Living" menu with nine standing sections: Kitchen & Entertaining, At Home, Tea Room, Barware, Home Care & Pets, Jewelry & Accessories, Outdoor Living, Play Time, and a clearance Outlet, plus a separate Gift Ideas grouping pulled from across those categories. Customer service ran through a single toll-free number, 800-595-1815, and the site took signups for shoppers who wanted the print catalog mailed to them, per the same archived pages.

What RushGideon Carried

• Kitchen & Entertaining — Serveware, dinnerware, and hosting accessories
• At Home & Home Care — General home goods alongside a dedicated pet-supplies section
• Tea Room & Barware — Separate tea-set and bar-accessory departments
• Jewelry & Accessories — A standalone jewelry and accessories department
• Outdoor Living & Play Time — Patio and garden items alongside a games and toys section
• Gift Ideas & Outlet — A curated gift grouping plus a clearance Outlet section

No Longer Accepting Orders

RushGideon's site is no longer a working store. The homepage snapshot linked above is from January 2012, and Wayback Machine crawl history for rushgideon.com continued to show a real, browsable catalog through mid-2012; by December 2015 the same crawl history shows the domain redirecting away from any storefront, and a 2019 snapshot confirms it had become a parked, for-sale domain listing rather than a shop. The domain remains parked today rather than pointing to a working business. Anyone holding an old RushGideon catalog, an order confirmation, or the 800-595-1815 number should treat all of it as no longer staffed.

Where to Order Now

For the same mix of kitchen, home, and gift items RushGideon once carried, these active catalogdb.com listings cover similar ground:

• GiftTree — Gourmet gift baskets and corporate gifting, shipped from a Vancouver, Washington office
• National Geographic Store — Gifts, apparel, and accessories built around the brand's exploration and science themes
• Africa Imports — African-inspired jewelry, home decor, and gifts sold to retail and wholesale buyers

Prefer to shop now? Home, kitchen, and gift items in the style RushGideon carried are also easy to find on Amazon: