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Stamps
He Dog
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OK, so I remember S&H green stamps, Eagle Stamps (my mother saved both of those), Gold Bond Stamps and Top Value Stamps.
Any of you geezers remember others?
Later we will get into dinner ware and pots and pans from grocery stores.
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Saddle tanks on a Mayflower van where a station gave double or triple stamps was a real bonus.
I remember these and if you bought a carton there was extra in there
yep wheel barrel full of books to get a transister radio🤣
S&H Green Stamps were saved by yours truly.........to get my first power tool, while I was still in junior high.......circa 1965.
The B&D corded drill is still with me......on the bottom shelf of my small work bench.😉
edit: I wouldn't josh you guys and gals. You can see the top of the B&D black case, at the bottom left of center, in this picture.
BTW......the rifle is my single-shot L461 Sako in 17-222.......built almost 20 years ago.
I'll always enjoy both!🙂
Our local grocery store gave out Gold Bell stamps and later Gold Bond. A full book could be redeemed at the small Gold Bell\Bond store that was located in the same strip (shopping center) as the grocery store.
It took 3 books of stamps, IMMIC to take home an electric ice cream machine. My mom used one book to get a stuffed monkey which she gave to my youngest brother. He named the monkey "Jocko" and carried that thing around for a few years until one of us older bro's threw ole Jocko up in a very high tree branch.
I still tease that brother to this day about his monkey and he just turned 60!
My mother used to save the green stamps......she got a few prizes from them. I remember "getting to lick them" and putting them in the little book. I cannot imagine my kids thinking of licking those stamps and putting them in a book as a reward. I wish my mother had saved some things so I could remember what she got. She was notorious for just getting rid of things. Dishes, furniture, our toys....you never knew what you were coming home to. She would just get a wild hair and clean things out. I think it was because she liked to shop.
Growing up NJ we had green stamps but we mostly used Plaid stamps from the A&P Supermarket.
We had the green Stamps from a few local places not very popular mom never saved them
But top value were the most popular tamps i remember Kroger use to give them out for one and local gas stations
Their was even a store next town south that had a redemption center for them a lot of inventory or would order any item in the catalog you waited
I seem to recall the local neighbor ladies buying full books from each other for 3 to 5 dollars needing money for food or rent
A lot of our Christmas presents were from top value stamp redemption
I still have a 4 lane aurora HO gage slot car track my mom got for me when I was about ten yrs old ( a lot more stories on that but not now )
When I turned 16 about 1974 or so I got a job at local grocery store a year or two in the owners started giving out Stamps I think s&h green Stamps
They were treated more tightly than the money
The check out girls would ask the customers if they wanted their Stamps if not the girls would keep them isay girls because
at that time I never remember a guy being a cahser full time
although I would and a few more of us were trained to do it fill in or help when we got real busy Back when you had to do the actual math no machine to do it for you another lost talent today lol
Besides, honest our manager would only hire the bestlooking girls to be cashiers
just one more thing if you made it this far lol
Several plus years ago I did some auction searching found some Stamps and books and a couple old top value catalog books from about the time i was a kid with the race set my mom had got for me just nostalgic I guess but fun to look thru like the old sears Christmas toy books
I always thought the S&H Green Stamps were a waste of time but my Diane loved them. It was like going on a date to redeem them. She could not wait to pick up the next item and planned months ahead of time. I wish we could go on another Green Stamp date but she is in Heaven now. -------------------Ray
I remember back when we had the gas crisis. Some stations would only serve regular customers. They could Identify them by an Styrofoam orange ball on top of their antennas. I think it was either Gulf or Getty stations that did that. Everyone else was served at other stations by the odd/even number on their plates. We had the S&H green stamps too.
I had a Monkey named Jocko too, that was the exact same monkey. I also had a Blue Monkey that went everywhere with me. I thought that Monkey was long gone, But my mom saved it all those years, and gave it back to me on my 50th birthday. Poor thing had no stuffing left in its neck, from me dragging it around . Sadly, My wife threw it out one day. To this day, I never forgave her for that!😈. She is a very evil woman!!! Add sarcasm and laughter. Great memories and I hope that your brother gets even with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣
Someone gave my mother a "Hat Box" full of cigarette package tear off strips! What in the world would have promoted this??
The late Sunshine had her family's collection of "Blue Willow" dishes that came in laundry powder. She remembered her dad buying the box at an estate auction (even remembered whose auction it was) and they used them in the cabin they had at a nearby lake. Her mom found them in the basement after we got married and we've had them on display ever since.
Trying to find who in the family gets them now; our boys don't want them.🙄
Jelly glasses were on my family table for years.
At various times , DUZ laundry detergent had either drinking glasses or bath towels in their boxes as premiums . We saved enough Marlboro bucks to get two kayaks and several sets of luggage .
I remember my mom getting towels and wash cloths in the laundry detergent boxes and Krogers grocery stores always had some point deal going on ,, xx amount of points for money spent and there was a lot of items that could be traded for encolpia sets was one I remember house wares toys and similar each week would be the next book or item you needed to make a set
some where mom had a little Styrofoam display with all the presidents up to that point of course they were about 3 inches tall plastic figures and each week get another one
dont forget the jelly and peanut butter jars that once empty were used as drinking glasses with some cartoon charter or movie hero on them
my younger brother (RIP ) did the Marlboro point I dont remember what all he got but I do know I have some of the goods they gave away branded with their logo ( like sleeping bags duffle bags and so on )
local gas stations also got in on the act giving away different things for points gained
and had th enever no one won ticket half each time you would a ticket left or right side form 5.00 to thousands
I remember adds in the local paper in want adds would be I have a left xx dollar side of a ticket will split if you have the matching right half.
LOL
every body had the left side and I will guess one right side ticket was printed and some company ex had it
one last remember the cereal and related offers send in xx amount of box tops and 50 cents postage and get some item in return
my favorite I got was a capt crunch plastic treasure chest you could use as a cereal bowl or a bank had a spoon looked like a small shovel.
sorry gang I like to reminisce about simpler times
My Mom got a complete set of Currier and Ives patterned dinner ware promoted by the A&P store. That was our "good" china for some years. No stamps were involved in that though.
In Sept., 1952, I finally had enough money to buy the Ithaca 37 that I wanted but my Mom made me wait until the following Tuesday because that was double green stamp day! (I still have that shotgun.)
What did she get with all those stamps?
Do I count as family lol?
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