Who remembers S & H Green Stamps?

[skygazer]

My mom used to collect them - you got them when you shopped and you saved them up and pasted them in little books (my job) then you could redeem them for stuff. Things like cookware or small appliances - there were actually quite a lot of things you could get with them. There was a green stamp store in a nearby town and we'd go there to redeem mom's stamps.

I think they died out in the 80's - they were still around when my kids were small but harder to find and damn near impossible to redeem.

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. I remember them

we were never good at collecting them

[SeattleGirl]

2. I remember them. We collected and redeemed them.

With 5 kids in the family, any little thing helped in terms of getting what you needed.

[terrya]

3. I do

I remember you could get them at the grocery store, at the gas station...almost anywhere.

I remember you could get almost anything. But...it depended on the item. I think a television, for instance, was something like 500 books of stamps.

[skygazer]

5. My mom was fanatical about them

There were six kids in the family so she did a LOT of shopping and only shopped at places where she could get her stamps. Plus lots of customers didn't collect them so if the customer before her didn't want them, she'd ask if she could have them. She got several large items with them - I used to love going to the store. It had so much stuff in it!

[Shakespeare]

4. They've gone virtual.

www.greenpoints.com

[skygazer]

8. Well, I'll be darned

:wow:

[SoCalDem]

6. Here are the two books I have left

:)

[WCGreen]

7. My grandma was a nazi when it came to the stamps....

She was fanatical.....

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. My mom collected them - along with Blue Chip Stamps in the 1950s and 60s

She really liked the Blue Chip Stamps because each book was worth $3 in silver dollars at the local grocery. That started a coin collection of silver dollars over the years which eventually was worth quite a bit more money when silver dollars disappeared from circulation.

[Xithras]

10. I remember my mom collecting them in the early 80's, but they vanished

I know that she wasn't collecting them by the time I reached junior high, which would have been 1987, so they were definitely gone by then.

But I remember very vividly watching her in the early 80's as she stuck all of those stickers in her stamp book. She used to get so mad at me because I'd try to sneak a sheet away, and whenever I did it she'd have to spend hours plucking stamps from all of the walls in the house :)

[trackfan]

11. I do. My mom collected mostly Blue Chip stamps though.

In fact, if we didn't buy something at Fedco, it probably came from the Blue Chip Stamp Redemtion Center. Triple stack pole lamp...Kook-a-la-lee...bowling balls....ash trays...."Golden Surf" by Robert Wood (Giant Painting)...etc. etc. etc.

[faithnotgreed]

12. definitely - i got a white stag sleeping bag and a telescope

when i was pretty small

still have the sleeping bag and have no idea where the telescope went
figures

[LaurenG]

13. I do, my grandmother had books and books of them

She also had a catalog to redeem them.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. I sure do!

And Blue Chip Stamps as well.....I collected them for quite a few years early in my marriage......

I got a number of nice kitchen things with them......

I enjoyed getting and using them......

*sigh*

[Left Is Write]

15. I do.

I remember sticking some in a book. My mother didn't collect them, so they must have been my grandmother's.

[miss_kitty]

16. My Mom was an avid collector of them

she got loads of stuff, but I can't remember what.

[StellaBlue]

17. I remember them

Age 26

[ohiosmith]

18. .

[CottonBear]

19. I remember them and the Green Stamp Store!

I don't remember all that we got there. I think we may have gotten alarm clocks on one of our visits. I loved filling up a book and knowing we could go shopping!

[donheld]

20. Like it was yesterday

My mom was big on green stamps.

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. We used to collect 'em

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[lpbk2713]

22. My friend's mother worked at the S&H redemtion store.

It's a used car lot now.

[Pacifist Patriot]

23. Oh I do. I think we got a set of Funk & Wag's with them.

[Chicago Democrat]

24. We got camping gear. Also smokers were 'encouraged' with stamps

that my dad collected.

Man... That was when a dollar was worth something and governments weren't run by mobsters.

[rug]

25. Raleigh cigarettes had coupons you could redeem.

When I asked my Dad how many for a iron lung, he smacked me.

[Chicago Democrat]

30. That was the brand. Raleigh non filters...

he lived until 72 and the lungs got him

[Dave Reynolds]

26. I do.

Although I have no idea if our household benefited from the cornucopia of green stamp plenty.

[Whoa_Nelly]

27. Waaaay back in '75, saved up enough Green Stamps to get

an Oster blender with Harvest Gold lid and front face accent. Still have it, and it still works really well! Margaritas, yogurt protein drinks... :)

[mr_hat]

28. Sure I do. S&H were the Cadillac of stamps. There were rivals

that you could redeem for even crappier crap.

[maveric]

29. My parents collected them for years during the 50's-60's.

And 400 bookfulls later they cashed in on a set of TV tables.

[RebelOne]

31. Yup, remember them well.

Used to get a lot of good stuff with them.

[NV Whino]

32. My mother still has a lamp she got with them

And then I had to go find a shade for the damned ugly thing.

[cmd]

43. I have one, too

I got it for my daughter's room more than thirty years ago. It a clown holding a bunch of balloons. The balloons are the shade. I'm saving it for a grandchild.

[NV Whino]

46. That sounds like fun.

My mother's is this huge thing with brown and yellow and orange splotches on it. Ghastly.

[DainBramaged]

33. I do, Plaid stamps too

[TallahasseeGrannie]

34. They filled the "junk drawer" in our kitchen

and I was usually comandeered to paste them all in the books once or twice a year.

[wovenpaint]

35. Boy, this brings back memories!

Both my Mom and Grandma collected them religiously. As a child, I used to love to look thru the catalogs and dream of the great stuff we could get as we counted the books we had.
Of course my Mom had the final say in the decisions...it think we mostly got kitchen stuff...but I bet Santa shopped there too, now that I think back and see things thru "Mom's" eyes, lol.

[yellowdogintexas]

36. remember them, used them and redeemed them

that was a long time ago, too.

Also Top Value stamps...

[fishwax]

37. I don't, but my grandpa was an expert--did research on them for his PhD

as well as in his later career as a business prof. So I heard some them, even though I don't remember them at all :D

[TheCentepedeShoes]

38. Remember them very well.

Saved them until the grocery store stopped giving them out. Got lots of usefull stuff.

[CanuckAmok]

39. Oh, my, yes. That's how we got our...

...first airline tickets.

[Deja Q]

40. I had a partial book filled as part of a 'time capsule'

but it got thrown out :cry:

[samplegirl]

41. i think every iron and toaster

my mother ever had she got with her stamps.

[Ellen Forradalom]

42. My roomies and I kept them in the freezer

I just saw one of the roomies for the first time in 23 years. I gave him a quiz about the old apartment. Q) What did we keep in the freezer? A) The bowling ball. Q) What else? A) The S&H Green Stamps.

[MrScorpio]

44. We used to collect them

Thanks for giving me a beautiful memory of my late mom

[skygazer]

45. You're welcome

:hug: It does that for me, too. I cherish every memory of my mom, especially the everyday ones.

[Kickin_Donkey]

47. Yeah, I remember those ...

but in our area, Blue Chip stamps predominated, and I remember going to the Blue Chip redemption outlet with my parents to trade in for stuff. This was in the '60s and '70s. We had a few S&H Green stamps.

[skygazer]

48. My hubby remembers the Blue Chips better too

His dad ran a gas station and hubby still has the Blue Chip stamp machine. Kinda neat.

I'm originally from New England and don't recall seeing Blue Chip stamps.

[shanti]

62. yup, we were a blue chip family too

although gramma did the green stamps. i remember standing by mom at the register and getting our change back with a big handful of stams. this was in the 60 and 70's. they were usually crammed into a junk drawer until someone got up the gumption to paste them in.

did you grow up in so cal? remember the helm's man, alpha beta, and michael's supermarket?

[Kickin_Donkey]

63. I grew up in Nor Cal ...

Blue Chips must've been bigger in the Golden State.

I can still remember the cover of the Blue Chip books: dull-gold background with blue writing and a comic chipumunk.

We had Alpha Beta markets up here, but the big chains then were Safeway and Luckys. I think we got most of our stamps at our now-defunct local independent grocery store.

[Kingofalldems]

49. Green Stamps and Top Value Stamps

I remember the kid across the street got a baseball glove with Green Stamps.

[musette_sf]

50. My mom collected S&H and King Korn stamps

My first guitar was gotten with trading stamps. Also our lunchboxes and thermoses. Consequently I don't have a cool 60s theme lunchbox in my archival collection. I always felt like such a dork with the plaid S&H lunchbox.

My worst trading stamp memory: The S&H showroom was in Manhattan. We lived in Brooklyn. Since I went to HS in Manhattan, I was given the stamp books and ordered to go to the showroom after school, and pick up a toilet seat.

The box not only described the contents, but had "THE BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE" printed on both sides of the freaking box. Imagine, if you will, a 14 year old girl who was trying so hard to be ultra mega 60s cool, dying a thousand deaths on the RR to Bay Ridge with this... toilet seat.

[BrotherBuzz]

51. We had S&H first then Blue Chip became the big one......

Mom just hated the damn things and told us the 'we' paid for them with higher prices. Mom was right, and I don't miss them at all.

[ThingsGottaChange]

52. OMG Yes!!

I loved it when I got to put all the S & H stamps in the books for my Mom. It was quite the procedure, you know. Used a damp sponge instead of licking and made sure I got them in there nice and neat. Now that I think about it (and I can't believe I can remember this!) the squares were always a little bigger than the stamps. It used to bug me that they didn't fit perfectly!

Miss you Mom!!!!!!!! :cry: Dammit! Now I am crying!

[Blue_Roses]

53. Oh wow!

I forgot about Green Stamps! Yes, I remember them. I can vividly remember being the one designated to filling them. Those were good times:D

[ashling]

54. I've still got some somewhere

Books that my mon collected. Every time I start to throw them out I am reminded of my mother and I just put them back in the drawer.

[astonamous]

55. I still have the my first Bible that we got at the Green Stamp

Store. We also got a picnic basket with dishes in it and a portable record player. Lordy, I had forgotten all about those stamps.

[EFerrari]

56. Me. And I don't think we EVER redeemed them.

We just had cat fights about what we would get - gramma, mum and me.

:rofl:

[obxhead]

57. I got a 'pup' tent and a new 'lewie ville slugger'

with 'em when I was just a chitlun down in Fla.

That paste on the stamps sure did taste terrible.

The tent lasted for about 10 summers though.

[Awsi Dooger]

58. That was major league paste

I was the licker in chief. One book or less and I'd be tipsy from the paste taste.

We got the stamps primarily at Publix supermarkets. My mom and grandmother would stuff the stamps in drawers, then we'd periodically grab the pile and figure out how many books we had and what that was potentially worth. Seems like it would always be small appliances.

I know for sure we were still redeeming them in the late '80s at one store that remained open in southwest Miami. I was already living in Las Vegas and flew back at Christmas. My mom and I discovered a stash of old stamps and had a great time filling out books and making one last trip to the redemption store.

[NNadir]

59. I do. They were a major enterprise in my home growing up.

We spent hours licking them and sticking them in books.

[Hardrada]

60. Same here.

I was my grandmother that save them but I got to put them into the little books. I'm sure we redeemed them all but I forgot what we got for them.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

61. My parents collected cigarette coupons from Raleigh and Belair, too...

We had so much crap around the house!

[hippywife]

64. Those, Top Value and Buckeye Stamps

that were given out by the local Big Bear grocery stores.

http://www.goantiques.com/detail,buckeye-stamp-booklet,32448.html

We used to stash them in a drawer and them have a big stamp sticking party when we were kids. The table would be covered with green, yellow, and orange stamps. Can't remember anything mom actually redeemed them for tho.