Remember these, when going to the grocery store?

[Tab]

I remember my parents collecting those for years...

[Gormy Cuss]

1. I remember squabbling with my sister over who should get the chance to paste them in the book.

I don't recall a single thing that my parents got for filling all those books, LOL.

[hippywife]

2. I have extremely vivid memories

of those, Top Value (the yellow ones) and the orange Buckeye stamps (local from Big Bear grocery stores) all piled high on the kitchen table and mom making us put them in the books. They made it into the house and into cookie jars and canisters but not into the savings books until we had massive stamping days to put them there. :eyes:



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[MagickMuffin]

3. I used to redeem them for CASH

I can't remember how much I got per book, but for a teenager it was enough to buy things I shouldn't have been buying.

Here in Texas we used to also have Scottie Stamps, from the Buddies Supermarket, which then became Winn Dixie. I think Winn Dixie discontinued offering the Scottie Stamps.

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Wednesday's were double stamp day. Buddies had Scottie Stamps and Piggly Wiggly had the S&H stamps.

[Arkansas Granny]

14. I seem to recall that you could redeem a filled book for $3.00.

We used to have a redemption center in town where you could take your filled books and go shopping with them.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. I recall my parents saving these and I recall saving them myself.

Back in the 70s, these were still a big deal.

[Tesha]

5. Sperry and Hutchinson

and I went out to find a listing of the things they used to give out...

and found they still live! http://www.greenpoints.com/



now you get points for online shopping!

[pipoman]

6. Remember the Brady Bunch episode and house of cards?

I remember when the S&H redemption store closed. My sister and I pasted for a week. I got a digital alarm clock (big red LED), my sister got a hamburger shaped am/fm radio and we got a portable cassette player/recorder together (we listened to 8 tracks until then...click-click).

[kcass1954]

7. Until 1998, I used an iron that I got in 1977 with green stamps.

I got several other things before they quit giving them out in the 80's. And like the iron, it was always something that I needed for the house when there wasn't any spare money.

[Lucinda]

8. My mom did those and Blue Chip stamps

I think Blue Chip might have been a California thing...

[troubleinwinter]

9. Yup, Ma did Blue Chips. Californian here!

[Lucinda]

17. And then there were two!

:)

[troubleinwinter]

10. How 'bout the Fuller Brush man?

Very nice products, and ALWAYS a nice free sample whether you bought that time or not.

[troubleinwinter]

11. There was the Milk Man, too.

A little cardboard fan of tabs representing which products you wanted left on the doorstep: cottage cheese, sour cream, milk, cream, butter, etc. Now and then, when my mother wasn't looking, I'd flip up the chocolate milk tab.

In the 50s, few families had two cars, many women did not drive. The milkman was important delivering these dairy items to the home.

[Lucinda]

18. One of the last places I lived in California was a really cool little house

in Glendora that had a door built into the back wall for milk deliveries.
Great house. :)

[troubleinwinter]

12. I remember going to the Blue Chip redemption store as a kid.

Usually meant a casserole dish or a new ironing board cover. I guess it meant a lot to my mother, but boring to me.

Warren Buffet did well on the enterprise.

[sazemisery]

13. I still have a book of S&H Green Stamps

We had a Green Stamp store here and I remember going there until it closed in the late '70's.

[csziggy]

20. I have (or had) a big stack of Green Stamp books!

MIL wanted something from the store here and sent them to me. The store never had the stuff she wanted (dishes I think) so I just found similar ones and bought them for her. By the time I realized I had never used the stamps, the store had closed so I'm stuck with them.

Maybe I should throw them away now?

[troubleinwinter]

21. I wouldn't throw them away.

There are folks that enjoy having them as "vintage collectables". They sell on eBay & whatnot. Wouldn't bring you much money, but it's kinda fun to manage to put such "historical items" into the hands of someone who would enjoy having them. :crazy:

Also, S&H is not defunct! They are now called 'Greenpoints' and can still be redeemed! Ya might be able to redeem them for a serving spoon, an ironing-board cover or a cruise to the Bahamas!

[csziggy]

26. They may be with the stuff I was planning to sell on Ebay

Along with the gas receipts from the 60s with gas at under twenty cents a gallon. :eyes:

[Auggie]

15. Gas stations gave them out too

[yy4me]

16. Good grief, I remember my mother assigning me to paste those

things in the book, being careful to put the proper denomination on the page. Every so often, off to the store to pick up some kind of goodie. I think half of her old Revere Ware came as a result of stamp redemption.

If I searched hard enough, I bet I have some books around from the old days. I had no idea they were still use, certainly not in Massachusetts

[troubleinwinter]

19. I am STILL cooking in her Revereware!!!

I also recall the different denominations... big ones to the back of the book.

But no, they are not still used, they are defunct.

I recall that Boy Scouts and even some municipalities would solicit donations of peoples' collections of stamps, and could buy all sorts of things, like needed items for fire departments. It took a LOTTTTT of stamps!!!

[lisa58]

22. they were in the draw by the telephone - the junk drawer when I was a kid

[Tab]

23. That's exactly where my mom kept them

the junk drawer by the telephone. What's up with that?

[lisa58]

24. where else are you gonna put them?

[Vinca]

25. We stocked our first kitchen with products from the Green Stamp store.

In fact, I still have some Revere Ware pots and Pfaltzgraff Folk Art dishes I got with the stamps.

[troubleinwinter]

28. I still use my mom's Revere Ware, and she had the Pfaltzgraff, too!

[Vinca]

29. LOL - that's it!

[pengillian101]

27. Remember these?

I do remember. I also recall my 96-year old Grandmother trying to use those stamps as postage stamps in 1968. She also threw out every family pic, but the nurses saved what they could for us. Sucks getting old and senile.

[Warpy]

30. My mother saved green stamps, gold stamps, and cig coupons

and I think she must've exchanged them for cash because I never saw a single premium in the house.

She did, however, buy stock.

[LaydeeBug]

31. I've never heard of this. nt

[Blue Gardener]

32. I think they should renew this idea

My Mom got all kinds of good stuff with them. I would shop at a store that handed them out.