In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Remember S&H Green Stamps??
dreher
Member Posts: 8,886 ✭✭✭✭
My family didn't do S+H Green Stamps but several occasions I got to lick a whole bunch of them to stick in those books to help a friend.
This is so long ago I don't remember much about them except I was in an antique store last week and they had an S+H Green Stamp sign. First time I had thought about S&H Green Stamps in a whole lot of years!
Comments
I remember my mom getting quite a bit of small appliances, toasters, blenders, even an electric skillet there in my younger days.......
a thing back in the late sixtys could not wait to get them pasted
Sure do. Also had local store had Red & White stamps. Fill the books up and get merchandise. Course I remember getting kitchen drinking glasses in laundry detergent, Sunoco gas stations getting a magnetic double plastic horseshoe to stick on your car, getting "cash" amounts under Coke bottle caps where if you won you took to store and got the amount under the cap. I can't remember what I did yesterday but I DO remember winning a DOLLAR under one of those bottle caps!
That was Gulf oil "extra kick" horse shoes. Don
We saved Blue Chip Stamps because a BCS redemption center was nearby, but I remember Green Stamps.
Mom cashed some of those green stamps in for footballs and basketballs.
Yes sir, I stand corrected!
mom and neighbors back in the day saved top value stamps I think Kroger's and some other local places gave them out
I still have ho gauge slot car set my mom got for me as a Christmas present around 1969 or so mom got a lot of items for us by using them I seem to remember people neighbors would also sell the full "books" even partial books were sold they had saved up I think for like 3 or maybe it was 5.00 when full when money was needed for the family the trade in store was next town south of us about 12 miles . they had some items and some they would order from the book for you .
I started working in a small grocery store when I was 16 ( around 1974 or so ) they started giving away the S&H stamps I do not remember what they cost ( the stamps ) the store but they did keep them locked up better then money on hand LOL a few of the cashiers ( I also ran them when the store got busy or some one did not show )
any way the girls ( as was most common running register ) back then would ask the people if you dont want them I will take them , they got more than a few that way . the entire stamp give away lasted maybe a year or less at that store .
Gold Bond stamps were big here in MN.
At my Dad's Pure Oil Service Station he gave out Top Value Stamps. They were yellow.
I almost forgot. I had a motorcycle crash over those dang stamps one time. We were running low on them at the station one day and Dad told me to go pick up some at the Top Value Place there on Kingston Pike just a couple of miles down the road from the station in West Knoxville. I had been working back in the garage and had some oil on my shoes so when I started to put my brakes on at a traffic light my foot slipped off the brake and I ran right into the back of a Triumph Spitfire car with my motorcycle. The bumper on those cars didn't go all the way across the back on some of those models and I hit between the bumper and the license plate. I about went over the handle bars when I hit. I did manage to hit my crouch on my gas tank with the sudden stop. I was lying on the sidewalk moaning and groaning and the guys wife or girl friend came back to check on me and asked what was wrong. I was about blue in the face just hanging on and she said OH I see. She said to the guy I think you better get him an ambulance. I finally got up and told them I'd survive and they followed me back to the station. Dad sent them across the street to the body shop to have their car fixed. If I remember correctly it cost $66 bucks to fix that dent in their car. All it did to my motorcycle was warp the front rim. As for me I was sore for a week and had to walk very gently.
I didn't save stamps but I saved AC oil filter and air filter box tops from the service station. They had some great gifts in their catalog. I saved for about 3 years to get a Winchester Model 12 pump 12 ga. shotgun and the year I had enough points Winchester quit making the Model 12 and I had to settle for a Model 1200. Broke my heart.
There were Plaid Stamps, too. Those "loyalty" stamps were very popular back when. For you youngsters, you'd get stamps for each purchase, so many for each dollar spent. Then you'd paste them into special books, so many to a page. When the books were full, you could turn them in to get special merchandise from a catalog. It was so many books for this and that many for that.
Yep, I remember them well. There were also some brown/tan colored ones too IIRC. Then there were B&W? coupons off of cigarette packs. All had the same theme, save up a bunch, and redeem for merchandise.
Yep, S&H here.
Mom would take us to the big city, Johnson City, Tn, for school clothes and class stuff at the beginning of the school year. Around 60 years ago, give or take a bit.
Cress 5 and dime and Belk's were the stores of choice.
After that she was off to the S&H store. One thing for sure it took a lot of stamps to get a little on nothing.
S&H green stamps had a redemption store here in town .Stores here either gave out green stamps or GoldBond stamps . Got a lot of stuff,gym bags, suitcases ,kayaks etc saving coupons from Marlboro cigarettes . Duz laundry detergent had glasses or towels depending on the size of the box .
Winn dixie gave out points you collected . So many points you " bought " a piece of China,till you had a whole set .
I remember licking them and putting them in mom's book back in the '40's & '50's. I don't remember what ever she got for them. I guess it's wasn't anything for little Jeff. 😕 She collected yellow ones also but I can't remember the name. I didn't receive anything from them either!
Our local grocery store gave out Gold Bell\Bond stamps during the 60's and there was a redemption store located in the same shopping center. I remember that it took 3 books of stamps to get an electric ice cream maker and just one book to get this toy stuffed monkey. That monkey became my youngest brother's best friend for quite a long time when he was just out of diapers! He named him "Jocko"🙂
Poor Jocko ended up dangling very high up, stuck in the branches of the tree in our front yard. Right where another of my many brothers threw him. He may still be up there for all I know!
One of my first posts on this board was about S&H Green Stamps.
The Black & Decker corded drill that I bought with them in 1967........is sitting on a shelf below the bench top.......that I'm typing this on. 😀
I remember them well. As many times that I licked those things, you would have thought eventually I would be able to get something from the catalog. Wrong, Mom always went for more kitchen gadgets that she only used a few times before they went to never-never land, never to be seen again.
Joe