One of my bridal showers was an S&H Green stamp theme. Everyone gifted me with books and books of stamps. I had such fun shopping in 1969 with those books at a local redemption store . Lovely memories
Probably good that Time Machines don't exist. I'd go back to age 12 and NEVER leave: Parents, Grandparents, and favorite Aunts and Uncles stiil alive. Yes, S&H Green Stamps were big in our lives. Thanks for these wonderful videos, and a step back in time. Lots of smiles at the fond, happy memories. And yes tears and sadness too, missing those no longer around who made those long ago days so special.
@ 63DW89A, you said it perfect. When we were kids we didn't have a full conception of what evils existed around us. Television was not the evil one-eyed monster it is now. They couldn't create a re-make of Gilligan's Island or I dream of Jennie without sex or violence. Yes indeed like you I dearly miss those day. Thanks for your post.
In the 1970's there was an episode of the TV show the BRADY BUNCH where the entire episode was about what the family was going to purchase with their green stamps booklets. Does anyone else remember that ?
Thanks for the comments. I remembered that the girls won but couldn't remember what they ended up purchasing. Also I also forgot about the dog jumping up and pushing over the house of cards.
@John Enright , I can't remember S & H Green Stamps being give out by gas stations but I know they were by all the comments I've read. Now I do remember Winn Dixie in Florence ,Alabama gave them out and my Mom definitely used the as intended. How did you get so old ? Like me. You didn't die young, so here we are.
I can remember dad going to the gas station getting gas filling up the tank and Mom making sure that we always got our share of S&H Green Stamps ........oh man those were the good days I really miss them so much!!!!
John, Rod Serling had an episode of Twilight Zone titled "Kick the Can!". Try and find it to view. I saw it when young and it meant nothing. Now . . . everything.
I remember mom making sure dad gave her the stamps when he got home for a trip. In hard times those stamps were a blessing for Christmas gifts for us kids.
Exactly. We arrived in California on Oct. 31,1959 as poverty-stricken immigrants but in less than 2 months my mother had saved enough stamps to give my sister and me a beautiful watch each- our only gift and some candy. Candy bars and a pack of 5 sticks of Wrigley's gum was still 4 cents each. We thought we hit the jackpot and I remember my Mother's look of joy as we opened our gifts.
I remember my parents collecting these and filling books. Then we went to a store to redeem for various items. A lost history. Thanks for pricking my memory.
I remember my mom and grandpa collecting green stamps. Mom practically furnished the whole house with furniture by redeeming these stamps. Not only did they have a catalog but we also used to go to a redemption center where you could see the items in person. My 96 old mom passed away last year. While cleaning out the house I found a half filled book of S+H green stamps. It brought back such wonderful memories of what life used to be in our country then. I sure do miss those days. 😻
Mom got me my first bicycle with these stamps. I remember them well. The Sears catalog and Christmas Wishbook were big deals also to us kids. Simple, good times.
My mom collected these in the 1960's. As a kid, I felt grown up to be allowed to help fill the books. We usually got kitchen supplies with them - glassware, pots, etc. Money was tight, so anything for free was exciting.
I actually still have a couple loose stamps in my mothers jewelry box❤️ she passed away 20 years ago... every now and again when I go into the jewelry box I smile remembering when I helped her put them in the books 😊❤️. Thanks for the video appreciate it😊
I have some , too.....I still use a wheeled wired cart that now cost about 30-35 dollars ....I bring groceries in from the car every week with it ..saves trips to the car to unload .
@@M.C.Blackwell I, too, have a memory of the stamps. Going to the market every week (ours was the A & P) with my mother. Earning and saving the stamps was a real treat and adventure for me as a 10 yr. old. It seemed like an eternity to fill up those books just to get a gift of something for doing so. Eventually, the book did get filled and you cashed it in (and once you licked all the pages and stuck them together the little book ended up looking like a mini-phone book!) Along the way of filling it (and using my tongue to lick the sheets of stamps), it got pretty gross. One day I figured out an easier way to do it...my father's shaving brush! TA-DA!...Well, needless to say, when he went to use it, he wasn't too happy. He read me the riot act, told me never to do it again (I didn't). My mother bought him a new one, I got to keep the "used" one and the whole family got a nice little radio to enjoy which cost about $15.00 in Green Stamps! Ah, the good ole day, eh???
I feel blessed for being born in 1951. A kid in the 50's, teen in the 60's and a young adult in the 70's. I wish life had a reset button, I would never leave those decades.
As the youngest of five kids, I always went shopping with my mom while my three sisters and oldest brother were in school. I remember the day she stopped outside the store to go through the receipt item by item before we struggled to get the bags of groceries out of the two store carts and into the trunk of our '52 Mercury. She was outraged that the groceries in those two overflowing carts had totalled OVER $20!!! Finally she decided the receipt was correct, and consoled herself saying "Well at least we got extra Green Stamps." Oh how I wish I could buy even one cart of groceries now for $20!
Numerous bags of groceries for a family of 14 (parents/grandparents/kids) was $70. Never forget my Mom getting upset that she had to write a “large check”.
@@bflogal18 work per hour was like $1.75 in 1964 By 1986, it was $3.75. $5 to $7 per hour was a big deal from 1990 to 1995. Around this time though, the switch was starting to flip.... Prices of cars, houses, insurance, groceries and rent really started going from reasonable to outrageous. When a $250,000 dollar house goes for $500,000 to $900,000 to $1million that's just nuts. Now prices of everything have gone up but not the wages or companies cut back hours to keep payroll down.
My mother let me collect the random penny stamps. It took me forever but I finally filled up a book. I got to get the sports themed bed cover. I had that thing for thirty five years untill it fell apart.
I remember back in the day, my mom and I put the stamps in the books and counted the books. What I would give to have one of those days back. Miss You Mom. Love You.
My, mom was so excited to save up the Green stamps! we ended up getting a whole dish set the plates the cups the saucers, plus I Remember her getting, a bread box and we ended up getting a toaster as well she just Loved the Green stamps, also there was Blue Chip stamps, at the time too she, was saving them both I remember there was a store in our shopping market, plaza where we were going, cash in the books, we could pick out whatever we wanted if we had enough green stamp books, I remember the dish set as well as the bread box being, avocado green this was back in the early 70s everything was avocado green,, EEK,,🤗
Yep, everything was avocado green. My Mother's refrigerator, stove, sink, were all that ghastly color. But there was also harvest gold, which I preferred. Eventually I got a kitchen in harvest gold. Now my appliances are black...And that is on it's way out now, making room for silver. I can't wait for 'rainbow' to be discovered, lol. TgT
@@tomgcooktown5019 oh yes, we had the green and gold kitchen and then our kitchen floor tile was that burnt orange color. No words can describe how not good that was. Traumatic.
Such wonderful memories. What memories will our children and theirs (if they have them).....what will they have? It wasn’t perfect, but it’s better than this...God Bless Everyone!
My wife and I married in 1972. My mother didn't have money to give a wedding gift, what she did give us was 19 filled S&H stamp books. At the time each book represented about $3 in value. With the S&H books we purchased two night stand lamps and a record player. Gave my mother an opportunity to give us a wedding gift when she didn't have cash to buy us a gift. Also gave us a chance to pick out something that we needed. Thanks for the video.
Your story touched my heart and tells me that your Mom had little to give, but gave her all to raise a fine son, who knew how to choose a wife with a gracious heart. Thank you for sharing such a precious moment!
dollar had more value then mininum wage was think a dollar fifteen or twenty then..so that amount was big dollar she gave you yea back in those days banks gave toasters too or those punch bowls and sets of cups
@@speedracer1945 yes. But plastic can be turned into carry bags for instance. A return deposit for them would still be worthwhile. The BEST idea would be simply to return to glass bottles.
First off, thank you for your efforts to bring back snippets of good times past. I fondly remember cashing in collected stamps for merchandise in the 60's and 70's at the local redemptaion center in Arcadia California.
This tore me up,I was almost openly crying when my kids came in and I showed them this video.They always ask me what was it like back then? I showed them all these videos on this Channel.They shook there heads in disbelief and wonder.
This channel is fantastic! I was scrolling and saw S&H Green Stamps and I have a vivid memory of going into the Green Stamp store with my mom and everything was so nice and we were so happy that day. I wish we had great stuff like this now
I used to do that with my mom too back in the 70s that was a good times we as kids always enjoyed going to the s&h green stamp store it was so enjoyable now I despise having it going to a Walmart I always feel uncomfortable and can't wait to get out and I work for Walmart 16 and a half years and I also worked at the mom and pop grocery stores and a mom and pop grocery stores are a million times better than that damn Walmart so much has changed since I was kid back in the late sixties and up to the '80s the malls were in and a lot of them that have gone out of business because of Walmart so I don't think Walmart is going to be around forever at least I hope not that's one business that I love to see go out of business but as far the s&h green stamp stores that would be wonderful if they came back
As a kid in the 60's Mom, her sisters, and my Grandmother pooled theirs until they had enough to trade them in. They took turns, I remember all kinds of stuff coolers, Bar B Q's kitchen appliances, dishes you name it. Usually we kids got to put the stamps in the books that glue was nasty
Licking those stamps was sooooo nasty ! How could anyone have filled up one page by licking them ? Gag !!! The good old days were definitely good for the most part. I miss all those people no longer here from my childhood and youth. God Bless Their Memories 🙏
Boy I remember those stamps as a kiddo in the 60's. I remember going into an S&H store many times with my mother and grandparents. Very fond memories of an era long gone. Thanks for posting these videos as I really enjoy watching them and remembering back. 👏👍👏
Thats cool Keith I found the other day a book my mom had saved before she died for a sesame st hose for my birthday I love our old memories thanks for sharing yours and bringing mine back ❤
I remember my mom collecting these when I was a kid in the 60s. She would get them in the grocery store at the checkout. She would have dozens of books filled in (she made me help her paste them and I can still remember the taste, lol) and get some very nice things with them.
My mom had me paste the stamps in the book but she made me moisten the stamps with a sponge. She would say those stamps were nasty and you didn't know who had handled them
@@paulrossi4863 I was the official licker and sticker in my family until I discovered our dog liked the taste so the licking task was reassigned to her. LOL!
It was wonderful I wish they would bring them back. It was fun dreaming about what you’d get and as a young broke housewife it would make my day to go get something for free.
I remember when I was young. My grandma got a kitchen clock with green stamps. That silly thing worked perfectly for 25 years. They don't make stuff like that anymore. My first electric train was from Green stamps. Those catalogs were so much fun just to browse through, like magic.
My mom never did anything with her green stamps, just shoved them in the dining room drawers. At some point I got old enough and discovered you could buy things with them and she let me have them and I spent hours and hours filling dozens of books with them and got to go on little shopping spree at the little S&H store in our small own.
@@IrishAnnie It was. I seem to remember actually buying my mom several "presents" from there with all those stamps. One was a little wall clock she had until she died a few years ago.
Back in the 60's I was just an adolescent. Boy was I lucky, Saturdays we'd go to the S & H location and my mom let me make a wish on what I'd want and when we'd go home I got to put the stamps in the books! I remember finding the stamps in grocery carts, it was like gold for me. most of all I remember getting a sailboat for the pool and a guitar. I wanted the Lava lamp but that wasn't approved by my parents, trully the days when parents knew best.
My job as a kid was to affix the stamps in the booklets. The store in L.A. we went to had about 30/40 female clerks working the counters. That was back when a retail store could afford to employ that many people. Just like when a supermarket use to have a dozen or so cashiers each with a box boy. Now its maybe two at best and of course we now have the self service check-out.
Don't you just love when you call customer service and they tell you it's faster or easier to go online? Faster and easier only for them ! NOT the customer ! I have occasionally said no it isn't. I'm talking to you right now.
Oh how I hated S&H Green Stamps! As a kid in the 1950's, it was my job to stick the stamps into the book. Mom oversaw the process and every stamp had to be aligned perfectly in its space. Even now, at age 75, I can still remember that awful-tasting glue. One time, while Mom wasn't looking, I took the kitchen sponge to the glue. Ooops, too much water -- washed the glue off and the stamps puckered. Wow, was Mom mad but the error of my ways didn't free me of my duty -- after that, Mom just kept a closer eye on her stamps and her daughter. Thanks for your videos and for the memories.
Oh my gosh! I remember when we got to go with mom, when she cashed her books in. As a child of about 6, that was overwhelming! That huge “store” with all kinds of goodies for everyone! Oh how I miss those days. They were much simpler back then.
A clueless kid of the 90s, I thought green stamps were a form of food stamp, since it involves a grocery store. I discovered these booklets my grandmother kept after her passing. Still unsure of what they were, I kept them as part of my various “treasures.” In 2009, I purchased a 1967 Triumph GT6 to restore, and ever since restoration, I’ve not only learned what they were, but I’ve kept these booklets inside the parcel shelf, as if I were to one day save up enough for that toaster oven.
I loved the Green Stamp store, it’s was always exciting to put the stamps into the booklets! I’m pretty sure a lot of my brothers sporting items were bought there, and I know my mom was able to get her new sewing machine from there!
As a kid, I remember the green dispensing machines at the check stands and the checkers would turn a dial to dispense the stamps at the end of a transaction. I always thought checking groceries looked like such a fun job, but it must have been a tough one. This was long before scanners and bar codes, so the checkers had to enter every single price by hand and very quickly, many by touch entry! I wonder what they were paid and if it was a living wage?
Most all the stores that gave out stamps in Florence ,Alabama gave out S & H Green Stamps, and we had a small S & H Green Stamp Store as well which located to a nicer location down town across from the Post Office and Federal Court House. It didn't stay open but a few years thou. My Mom collected S & H's and redeemed the booklets for all kinds of needed household items. We had 1 grocery store that was still giving out Top Value Stamps in the late 1970's early 1980's but there wasn't a Top Value Stamp Store to redeem them at. Those got tossed simply because we didn't have clue how to redeem them.
When I was a little kid in the 60’s, I remember my grandmother having a special drawer in her sewing room, that was filled with the stamps & booklets! I didn’t know what they were at 6 and 7yrs old, I just remember that drawer being her “Stash Drawer”! This video just brought back a long forgotten memory...thank you for this channel
I’m a baby-boomer. After WWll, my dad and his two older brothers opened several super markets in South Texas. I grew up working in the stores, and the one thing every lady that shopped with us looked forward to, was Double S&H Green Stamps Wednesdays, although they wanted their Green Stamps everyday no matter how little they spent. My mom even saved them as a treat for me and my sister. We enjoyed our weekend trips to Corpus Christi, Texas and the area S&H Store. I really enjoy your nostalgic series, and look forward to the notifications. If only we could turn back the clock in life.
I remember my mom sitting at the kitchen table pasting a gazillion of those stamps in the little books. It was particularly exciting when she had one of those biggies like a 50 stamp one.
I'm 54, my father was airforce so when my family would visit my grandparents, my grandmother would take my sister and I to the grn stamp store and we were allowed to pick 1 item...she would save all these stamps that she would get from Piggly Wiggly in anticipation for our visits....
@Derek Jackson by the comments to this subject, looks like we're not alone. I just shared a similar story about my experience with my book, the stamps and my father's shaving brush. I used his brush to cover the entire sheet (much faster than licking) and was so proud that I thought of it. However, he wasn't too happy when HE went to use it and it was stiff as a board from the glue! I got an ear full, my mom bought him a new one and I got the used one....life was good again! I looked forward to putting the on and in the book waiting to see what we were going to get. Such simple pleasures ....ahhhh...
These were also the days when clipping coupons from inserts in the weekly Sunday newspaper was a fundamental part of home economics in the household. I enjoyed it, as well as collecting the S&H (and other) bargain stamps. Life was so much more wholesome then.
Remember for large purchases they would give out a ten or fifty stamp instead of large amount of singles. PS. As usual came to comments first else I'd seen the ten and fifty stamps.
I well remember them in the 1950s and '60s as a kid growing up. I lived with my grandparents and they saved them. I always asked people in line that refused the stamps if I could have them and they usually said ok. Taking them home was a great feeling. The S&H redemption stores were very cool and had lots of good stuff to trade for. Another neat American tradition shot down!
MuvoTX , Same here. I honestly believe the S & H Green Stamps disappeared in the late 1070's. Of course I could be wrong it's very possible they could have been around in 1980 or 81.
Thank you for posting.... this really was a time much better and a time lost God I miss those days so much I can't even put into words. A world so much better than today
Wow! This video solves a big mystery for me. I'm 36 years old, but growing up, my grandparents had old booklets filled with those green stamps in a kitchen cabinet. Those booklets were older than me, probably from the 60's or 70's. When I was really little, I was fascinated by those booklets filled with "postage stamps." I liked playing with the booklets and flipping through them. So awesome to finally find out what those stamps were for. I enjoyed reading the stories in the comments section of this video, where viewers shared their memories of their moms or grandmas collecting those stamps.
I got my first Sony Walkman with S&H green stamps from my mom shopping at A&P foods. There was a redemption center in Hillside IL, right next to that infamous interchange Chicagoans know as the Hillside Strangler.
We had several items in our house from S&H. I remember the feel of the stamps and the messy books of stamps that we would excitedly take to the store. Love the video, very relaxing, well done!
Being born in 1959 I remember S & H Green Stamps being collected by my Mom way back in the early 1960's thru the 1970's.By the end of the 1970's I can't remember anyone giving the out in the 1980's. And I'm sure the S & H Green Stamps store was gone as well.
I loved S&H Green Stamps. It was a way to get something nice without having to ask your husband for money and hear the lecture about how you should be more thrifty and learn to budget.
I liked S&H green stamps. Every time mom went shopping she got S&H green stamps she let me put them in the book that the stamps would go in. My mom bought stuff with them. I miss those days.
When I was first married in 1955 we got a lot of our needed things by saving S&H stamps. Our camping gear, out first child's car seat and stroller. A toaster and small appliances. We were used to putting stamps in books because we had ration books during WWII that we filled and exchanged for War Bonds. America worked in the 1950's people lived within their means. One parent could have a blue color job and support a family of 5 buy a house and even buy a new car. There were no credit cards and Americans had a chance to achieve the American dream. We had reasonable healthcare cost. We didn't have college debt our employers paid for our college. What an idea educate your employees to be better employees and give them a chance to climb up the ladder of success. America used to work for the people instead of Wall Street.
If I remember correctly back In the 1960's at the A&P in northern NJ a machine used to spit out the Stamps according to how much money you spent. Like the Skee Ball machine used to spit out tickets down the shore
I still have a horse T.V. lamp that my Aunt Emma bought with the green stamps she saved. I remember her sitting at her card table and using a small wet sponge to wet and stick them in the books. I miss my Aunt Emma!
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I can still see the inside of the Kelly Geeen top kitchen cabinet drawer next to our white Magic Chef oven filled with loose S&H Green Stamps. Additionally, I remember sitting at our kitchen table, helping my mother by licking the stamps as she placed them inside the books. When we visited my grandmother, she'd give Morher extra stamps. Nanny always kept envelopes of stamps to give my aunts and Mother. If you filled up at certain gas stations, they gave you large, elegant, drinking glasses in deep green or deep gold colors. I still have a few.
Oh wow, this video brought back some fond memories. I was a child of the 60's and my mom and I collected and redeemed many books of stamps back then in south Florida :-)
I just started following this channel and have really enjoyed learning the history of businesses throughout the decades in America. I assume the closest we'll get to time travel at the moment.
I do remember the A&P stamps but not any plaid pattern. We only ever had very few of them so I can't remember if A&P was an actual grocery branch nor whether my Mother ever cashed any in.
One of my bridal showers was an S&H Green stamp theme. Everyone gifted me with books and books of stamps. I had such fun shopping in 1969 with those books at a local redemption store . Lovely memories
What a lovely idea for a shower! Hard to part with those books…that was love!
Probably good that Time Machines don't exist. I'd go back to age 12 and NEVER leave: Parents, Grandparents, and favorite Aunts and Uncles stiil alive. Yes, S&H Green Stamps were big in our lives. Thanks for these wonderful videos, and a step back in time. Lots of smiles at the fond, happy memories. And yes tears and sadness too, missing those no longer around who made those long ago days so special.
@63DW89A Yes, NEVER leave. How did the time go so fast?
Me Too.
Id go to the 1950s.
(Before I was even born)
@ 63DW89A, you said it perfect. When we were kids we didn't have a full conception of what evils existed around us. Television was not the evil one-eyed monster it is now. They couldn't create a re-make of Gilligan's Island or I dream of Jennie without sex or violence. Yes indeed like you I dearly miss those day. Thanks for your post.
What about your children and grandchildren?
I read your post and got a little misty eyed. Life is bittersweet indeed.
In the 1970's there was an episode of the TV show the BRADY BUNCH where the entire episode was about what the family was going to purchase with their green stamps booklets. Does anyone else remember that ?
I do!! They built a house of cards to see whether the boys or girls would get to use them!
At the end of the episode, I think the girls won the contest, n ended up buying a TV set so the whole family could use n enjoy.
I do! and didn't Tiger make it fall!!!! 😊
Thanks for the comments. I remembered that the girls won but couldn't remember what they ended up purchasing.
Also I also forgot about the dog jumping up and pushing over the house of cards.
I think the boys wanted a canoe and the girls wanted a sewing machine. But they were both next to each other and they decided on the tv instead.
I remember my parents would only go to certain gas stations because of these stamps, how did I get so old?
In her later years, my Mom used to say she was an 18-year-old trapped in an old woman's body. Now I understand, completely, what she meant.
@John Enright , I can't remember S & H Green Stamps being give out by gas stations but I know they were by all the comments I've read. Now I do remember Winn Dixie in Florence ,Alabama gave them out and my Mom definitely used the as intended. How did you get so old ? Like me. You didn't die young, so here we are.
I can remember dad going to the gas station getting gas filling up the tank and Mom making sure that we always got our share of S&H Green Stamps ........oh man those were the good days I really miss them so much!!!!
John, Rod Serling had an episode of Twilight Zone titled "Kick the Can!". Try and find it to view. I saw it when young and it meant nothing. Now . . . everything.
@@tylerzorn6152 You and me both, Tyler - you and me, both...
I remember mom making sure dad gave her the stamps when he got home for a trip. In hard times those stamps were a blessing for Christmas gifts for us kids.
Exactly. We arrived in California on Oct. 31,1959 as poverty-stricken immigrants but in less than 2 months my mother had saved enough stamps to give my sister and me a beautiful watch each- our only gift and some candy. Candy bars and a pack of 5 sticks of Wrigley's gum was still 4 cents each. We thought we hit the jackpot and I remember my Mother's look of joy as we opened our gifts.
@@didibrant7326 i love this story. How grateful we all were for small things.
I remember my parents collecting these and filling books. Then we went to a store to redeem for various items. A lost history. Thanks for pricking my memory.
I remember my mom and grandpa collecting green stamps. Mom practically furnished the whole house with furniture by redeeming these stamps. Not only did they have a catalog but we also used to go to a redemption center where you could see the items in person. My 96 old mom passed away last year. While cleaning out the house I found a half filled book of S+H green stamps. It brought back such wonderful memories of what life used to be in our country then. I sure do miss those days. 😻
Mom got me my first bicycle with these stamps. I remember them well. The Sears catalog and Christmas Wishbook were big deals also to us kids. Simple, good times.
Yup 👍🏼 I REMEMBER THAT ALSO!! We’re OLD BUT STILL COOLER THEN THIS GENERATION BY 10 FOLD
My mom collected these in the 1960's. As a kid, I felt grown up to be allowed to help fill the books. We usually got kitchen supplies with them - glassware, pots, etc. Money was tight, so anything for free was exciting.
I actually still have a couple loose stamps in my mothers jewelry box❤️ she passed away 20 years ago... every now and again when I go into the jewelry box I smile remembering when I helped her put them in the books 😊❤️. Thanks for the video appreciate it😊
Their was one in Porterville Ca in the early 80's well we have the memories my parents passed away long time ago 🙏
Eddie Munster yes we do have the memories ❤️😊bittersweet thanks for sharing. Stay safe and healthy 🙏
That's a wonderful memory
I have some , too.....I still use a wheeled wired cart that now cost about 30-35 dollars ....I bring groceries in from the car every week with it ..saves trips to the car to unload .
@@M.C.Blackwell
I, too, have a memory of the stamps. Going to the market every week (ours was the A & P) with my mother. Earning and saving the stamps was a real treat and adventure for me as a 10 yr. old. It seemed like an eternity to fill up those books just to get a gift of something for doing so. Eventually, the book did get filled and you cashed it in (and once you licked all the pages and stuck them together the little book ended up looking like a mini-phone book!) Along the way of filling it (and using my tongue to lick the sheets of stamps), it got pretty gross. One day I figured out an easier way to do it...my father's shaving brush! TA-DA!...Well, needless to say, when he went to use it, he wasn't too happy. He read me the riot act, told me never to do it again (I didn't). My mother bought him a new one, I got to keep the "used" one and the whole family got a nice little radio to enjoy which cost about $15.00 in Green Stamps! Ah, the good ole day, eh???
The taste of green stamp glue is like the smell of crayola crayons. Something you never forget.
I tasted the crayons,too. Never forget that one either.
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My mom always had me and my sister help lick the stamps.
We got stamps and I loved the taste but I don't remember my mom or neighbors ever getting anything for them.
@@artsmith103 That's because a lot of it was ugly so it probably didn't interest you. I remember my mom got a maple table!
i was born in 1958. Man have times changed!Someone please build a freakin time machine and take me back to the '60s or '70s!!!
I was born in 1959. I here ya. The memories that are flooding back. Life was so much easier then.
You and me both.
1960 here!
1958 here. The world sucks now.
I feel blessed for being born in 1951. A kid in the 50's, teen in the 60's and a young adult in the 70's. I wish life had a reset button, I would never leave those decades.
As the youngest of five kids, I always went shopping with my mom while my three sisters and oldest brother were in school. I remember the day she stopped outside the store to go through the receipt item by item before we struggled to get the bags of groceries out of the two store carts and into the trunk of our '52 Mercury. She was outraged that the groceries in those two overflowing carts had totalled OVER $20!!! Finally she decided the receipt was correct, and consoled herself saying "Well at least we got extra Green Stamps."
Oh how I wish I could buy even one cart of groceries now for $20!
Even a shopping bag full for $20!
Numerous bags of groceries for a family of 14 (parents/grandparents/kids) was $70. Never forget my Mom getting upset that she had to write a “large check”.
But I guarantee that the paycheck coming in to a household was also much smaller.
@@bflogal18 work per hour was like $1.75 in 1964
By 1986, it was $3.75. $5 to $7 per hour was a big deal from 1990 to 1995. Around this time though, the switch was starting to flip.... Prices of cars, houses, insurance, groceries and rent really started going from reasonable to outrageous. When a $250,000 dollar house goes for $500,000 to $900,000 to $1million that's just nuts.
Now prices of everything have gone up but not the wages or companies cut back hours to keep payroll down.
@@annaolivarez2578 I can remember my mom writing that check with a fountain pen...
My mother let me collect the random penny stamps. It took me forever but I finally filled up a book. I got to get the sports themed bed cover. I had that thing for thirty five years untill it fell apart.
I remember back in the day, my mom and I put the stamps in the books and counted the books. What I would give to have one of those days back. Miss You Mom. Love You.
My, mom was so excited to save up the Green stamps! we ended up getting a whole dish set the plates the cups the saucers, plus I Remember her getting, a bread box and we ended up getting a toaster as well she just Loved the Green stamps, also there was Blue Chip stamps, at the time too she, was saving them both I remember there was a store in our shopping market, plaza where we were going, cash in the books, we could pick out whatever we wanted if we had enough green stamp books, I remember the dish set as well as the bread box being, avocado green this was back in the early 70s everything was avocado green,, EEK,,🤗
Yep, everything was avocado green. My Mother's refrigerator, stove, sink, were all that ghastly color. But there was also harvest gold, which I preferred. Eventually I got a kitchen in harvest gold. Now my appliances are black...And that is on it's way out now, making room for silver. I can't wait for 'rainbow' to be discovered, lol. TgT
@@tomgcooktown5019 oh yes, we had the green and gold kitchen and then our kitchen floor tile was that burnt orange color. No words can describe how not good that was. Traumatic.
A & P Stores used to give out Plaid Stamps which were similar to S & H Stamps. In the midwest some stores gave out King Korn Stamps.
Earth Day had a lot to do with everything being green,I remember our neighbors had green paneling in their family room
Such wonderful memories. What memories will our children and theirs (if they have them).....what will they have? It wasn’t perfect, but it’s better than this...God Bless Everyone!
My wife and I married in 1972. My mother didn't have money to give a wedding gift, what she did give us was 19 filled S&H stamp books. At the time each book represented about $3 in value. With the S&H books we purchased two night stand lamps and a record player. Gave my mother an opportunity to give us a wedding gift when she didn't have cash to buy us a gift. Also gave us a chance to pick out something that we needed. Thanks for the video.
Your story touched my heart and tells me that your Mom had little to give, but gave her all to raise a fine son, who knew how to choose a wife with a gracious heart. Thank you for sharing such a precious moment!
Thanks for sharing
dollar had more value then mininum wage was think a dollar fifteen or twenty then..so that amount was big dollar she gave you yea back in those days banks gave toasters too or those punch bowls and sets of cups
Thanks for the memories. Would not mind a few green stamps today!
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I miss those times, people were so much better back then! Lord if I could only go back!
Back when you bought something you got another thing back like soda bottle deposits .
@@speedracer1945 Since you mentioned soda bottle deposits, my state had those well into the 1970s - no idea why they ended them. Another shame.
Weren't they ever.
@@starmnsixty1209 glass was recyclable than plastic back then but gave kids a reason to look for bottles
@@speedracer1945 yes. But plastic can be turned into carry bags for instance. A return deposit for them would still be worthwhile. The BEST idea would be simply to return to glass bottles.
Brings back fond memories of a simpler and more congenial America. Thanks.
First off, thank you for your efforts to bring back snippets of good times past. I fondly remember cashing in collected stamps for merchandise in the 60's and 70's at the local redemptaion center in Arcadia California.
We had a redemption center in covina on hollenbeck off of arrow hwy
This tore me up,I was almost openly crying when my kids came in and I showed them this video.They always ask me what was it like back then? I showed them all these videos on this Channel.They shook there heads in disbelief and wonder.
This channel is fantastic! I was scrolling and saw S&H Green Stamps and I have a vivid memory of going into the Green Stamp store with my mom and everything was so nice and we were so happy that day. I wish we had great stuff like this now
M.C. they have a site listing in the drop-down above, where they request three bucks to keep this going. Just sayin'.
I used to do that with my mom too back in the 70s that was a good times we as kids always enjoyed going to the s&h green stamp store it was so enjoyable now I despise having it going to a Walmart I always feel uncomfortable and can't wait to get out and I work for Walmart 16 and a half years and I also worked at the mom and pop grocery stores and a mom and pop grocery stores are a million times better than that damn Walmart so much has changed since I was kid back in the late sixties and up to the '80s the malls were in and a lot of them that have gone out of business because of Walmart so I don't think Walmart is going to be around forever at least I hope not that's one business that I love to see go out of business but as far the s&h green stamp stores that would be wonderful if they came back
thank you for bringing back forgotten memories. grew up in the 60's they were everywhere. thanx for the memories.
mom and grandma..... s&h stamps everywhere. The items that they got when they redeemed their stamps was top quality. Too bad that they went away.
As a kid in the 60's Mom, her sisters, and my Grandmother pooled theirs until they had enough to trade them in. They took turns, I remember all kinds of stuff coolers, Bar B Q's kitchen appliances, dishes you name it. Usually we kids got to put the stamps in the books that glue was nasty
🥵Me too but we used a wet sponge!!! 😂
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Wet sponge was definitely the wayY to do it
Licking those stamps was sooooo nasty ! How could anyone have filled up one page by licking them ? Gag !!! The good old days were definitely good for the most part. I miss all those people no longer here from my childhood and youth. God Bless Their Memories 🙏
@@wingatemose1182 👍👍
Yes. 🙏
Lol but it brought us together ❤
Boy I remember those stamps as a kiddo in the 60's. I remember going into an S&H store many times with my mother and grandparents. Very fond memories of an era long gone. Thanks for posting these videos as I really enjoy watching them and remembering back. 👏👍👏
I got my first hamster cage with S&H Green Stamps. One of those cages that had a wheel that went round and round all night long.
Yeah I did to you just reminded me!
And they had the cedar chips for the cage I used to save for in my own book as a kid!!!
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Thats cool Keith I found the other day a book my mom had saved before she died for a sesame st hose for my birthday I love our old memories thanks for sharing yours and bringing mine back ❤
As a hamster, I approve of your use of the green stamps.
I remember that there were other companies that had trading stamps. Plaid Stamps, King Korn Stamps, Green Stamps, etc stamps.
I remember my mom collecting these when I was a kid in the 60s. She would get them in the grocery store at the checkout. She would have dozens of books filled in (she made me help her paste them and I can still remember the taste, lol) and get some very nice things with them.
My mom had me paste the stamps in the book but she made me moisten the stamps with a sponge. She would say those stamps were nasty and you didn't know who had handled them
@@glennso47 I remember licking one of those S&H stamps when I was a kid and it wasn't very pleasant! 😁
@@paulrossi4863 I was the official licker and sticker in my family until I discovered our dog liked the taste so the licking task was reassigned to her. LOL!
@@paulrossi4863 to this day I am glad that I don’t have to lick postage stamps anymore. They are all self adhesive and have been for several years.
@@gerardcarriera7052 Very funny and very clever!
It was wonderful I wish they would bring them back. It was fun dreaming about what you’d get and as a young broke housewife it would make my day to go get something for free.
I think that,that was what we called the Good Old Days. Happy memories.
@rae1957tn If they went back, it would take longer to get gas. And it was probably factored into the price of gas. But redeeming them sure was fun!
I remember when I was young. My grandma got a kitchen clock with green stamps. That silly thing worked perfectly for 25 years. They don't make stuff like that anymore. My first electric train was from Green stamps. Those catalogs were so much fun just to browse through, like magic.
My mom never did anything with her green stamps, just shoved them in the dining room drawers. At some point I got old enough and discovered you could buy things with them and she let me have them and I spent hours and hours filling dozens of books with them and got to go on little shopping spree at the little S&H store in our small own.
Memories of an innocent time in our lives thank God 🙏
Gold mine!!!
@@IrishAnnie It was. I seem to remember actually buying my mom several "presents" from there with all those stamps. One was a little wall clock she had until she died a few years ago.
I remember my mom and grandmother collecting stamps.
The highlight of our week, like winning a powerball
Back in the 60's I was just an adolescent. Boy was I lucky, Saturdays we'd go to the S & H location and my mom let me make a wish on what I'd want and when we'd go home I got to put the stamps in the books! I remember finding the stamps in grocery carts, it was like gold for me. most of all I remember getting a sailboat for the pool and a guitar. I wanted the Lava lamp but that wasn't approved by my parents, trully the days when parents knew best.
Such happy memories. Thank you.
So much of our American history is lost, thank God for these videos
My job as a kid was to affix the stamps in the booklets. The store in L.A. we went to had about 30/40 female clerks working the counters. That was back when a retail store could afford to employ that many people. Just like when a supermarket use to have a dozen or so cashiers each with a box boy. Now its maybe two at best and of course we now have the self service check-out.
Don't you just love when you call customer service and they tell you it's faster or easier to go online? Faster and easier only for them ! NOT the customer ! I have occasionally said no it isn't. I'm talking to you right now.
I don't do my own checkout. It's their job to do that, not mine. Next they'll have us stocking the shelves for them.
I half expect to go to the grocery store for pork chops one day and have the butcher Trot out a hog and hand me a knife!
When I was a kid, I remember helping mom paste the stamps into the books. It was always fun going to exchange them for items at the S&H store
I found some old stamps in a box.
@@hynesiajones9742 That's so cool. I'd love to find some. I wonder if they're collectable
I grew up in the 50’s and saw many S&H stamps cashed in for merchandise.
Oh how I hated S&H Green Stamps! As a kid in the 1950's, it was my job to stick the stamps into the book. Mom oversaw the process and every stamp had to be aligned perfectly in its space. Even now, at age 75, I can still remember that awful-tasting glue. One time, while Mom wasn't looking, I took the kitchen sponge to the glue. Ooops, too much water -- washed the glue off and the stamps puckered. Wow, was Mom mad but the error of my ways didn't free me of my duty -- after that, Mom just kept a closer eye on her stamps and her daughter. Thanks for your videos and for the memories.
Oh my gosh! I remember when we got to go with mom, when she cashed her books in. As a child of about 6, that was overwhelming! That huge “store” with all kinds of goodies for everyone! Oh how I miss those days. They were much simpler back then.
Miss my parents this is a reminder of those precious times 🙏
A clueless kid of the 90s, I thought green stamps were a form of food stamp, since it involves a grocery store. I discovered these booklets my grandmother kept after her passing. Still unsure of what they were, I kept them as part of my various “treasures.” In 2009, I purchased a 1967 Triumph GT6 to restore, and ever since restoration, I’ve not only learned what they were, but I’ve kept these booklets inside the parcel shelf, as if I were to one day save up enough for that toaster oven.
What a nice story 😊
You may be lucky. Those books themselves could be collector items, maybe not now but in the future. Keep them very clean and tidy.
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I loved the Green Stamp store, it’s was always exciting to put the stamps into the booklets! I’m pretty sure a lot of my brothers sporting items were bought there, and I know my mom was able to get her new sewing machine from there!
As a kid, I remember the green dispensing machines at the check stands and the checkers would turn a dial to dispense the stamps at the end of a transaction. I always thought checking groceries looked like such a fun job, but it must have been a tough one. This was long before scanners and bar codes, so the checkers had to enter every single price by hand and very quickly, many by touch entry! I wonder what they were paid and if it was a living wage?
I loved collecting them. I still have an item I purchased with them, i still use it. Its a magazine rack of sorts.
I remember S&H green stamps very well , also the Top Value stamp too.
Ahhh the memories 🙂🙂🙂👌
Most all the stores that gave out stamps in Florence ,Alabama gave out S & H Green Stamps, and we had a small S & H Green Stamp Store as well which located to a nicer location down town across from the Post Office and Federal Court House. It didn't stay open but a few years thou. My Mom collected S & H's and redeemed the booklets for all kinds of needed household items. We had 1 grocery store that was still giving out Top Value Stamps in the late 1970's early 1980's but there wasn't a Top Value Stamp Store to redeem them at. Those got tossed simply because we didn't have clue how to redeem them.
@Lucky Man Gold Bell gift stamps. Obviously a golden yellow stamp with a Liberty Bell on it.
@Lucky Man I never got a whole book saved of the Gold Bond
Top Valu, they had an elephant on them IIRC.
When I was a little kid in the 60’s, I remember my grandmother having a special drawer in her sewing room, that was filled with the stamps & booklets! I didn’t know what they were at 6 and 7yrs old, I just remember that drawer being her “Stash Drawer”! This video just brought back a long forgotten memory...thank you for this channel
as a grocery checker in the day, there was nothing worse than cheating ( forgetting) a little old lady out of her green stamps!!!!!!!
Absolutely ! Those S & H Green Stamps helped a lot of people acquire things by saving them they would have never gotten.
My grandma was one of those ladies 🤣
Well they're dead now so no worries I guess
@@itiswhatitis7639 My grandma was one of those ladies too..😁
@@FriendofMineralTown We ALL will , even you dip$hit!
I’m a baby-boomer. After WWll, my dad and his two older brothers opened several super markets in South Texas. I grew up working in the stores, and the one thing every lady that shopped with us looked forward to, was Double S&H Green Stamps Wednesdays, although they wanted their Green Stamps everyday no matter how little they spent. My mom even saved them as a treat for me and my sister. We enjoyed our weekend trips to Corpus Christi, Texas and the area S&H Store.
I really enjoy your nostalgic series, and look forward to the notifications. If only we could turn back the clock in life.
I remember my mom sitting at the kitchen table pasting a gazillion of those stamps in the little books. It was particularly exciting when she had one of those biggies like a 50 stamp one.
Great video which brings back fond memories of my mom collecting and redeeming these stamps. Thank you.
I'm 54, my father was airforce so when my family would visit my grandparents, my grandmother would take my sister and I to the grn stamp store and we were allowed to pick 1 item...she would save all these stamps that she would get from Piggly Wiggly in anticipation for our visits....
I really miss S&H Green Stamps, I got a lot of really cool stuff with them.
Now I know what S &H stands for! Great memories - thanks!
I remember those! My mother got me a shiny red wagon with some!
I remember those stamps very well . It was a big treat putting them into the books .
@Derek Jackson
by the comments to this subject, looks like we're not alone. I just shared a similar story about my experience with my book, the stamps and my father's shaving brush. I used his brush to cover the entire sheet (much faster than licking) and was so proud that I thought of it. However, he wasn't too happy when HE went to use it and it was stiff as a board from the glue! I got an ear full, my mom bought him a new one and I got the used one....life was good again! I looked forward to putting the on and in the book waiting to see what we were going to get. Such simple pleasures ....ahhhh...
My mom worked at one from 1976-1979 in our small town Purcell, Oklahoma.
I saw some of the glasses my grandma got with the stamps in this video. They were the glasses with flowers on them.
My mom used these a lot. Have to reiterate as per below, back when America was a much better place.
I was just a child when I seen mom with these. Had no idea what they really were till now. Thanks.
I sometimes would get my parents postage stamps and lick them and put them in the book. It’s just strange that they didn’t like me doing that. 🤔🤭
These were also the days when clipping coupons from inserts in the weekly Sunday newspaper was a fundamental part of home economics in the household. I enjoyed it, as well as collecting the S&H (and other) bargain stamps. Life was so much more wholesome then.
I remember back in the day, when Great Scott!Supermarkets used to give out S&H Green Stamps after every grocery purchase.
Remember for large purchases they would give out a ten or fifty stamp instead of large amount of singles. PS. As usual came to comments first else I'd seen the ten and fifty stamps.
I believe we got ours at Kroger
I well remember them in the 1950s and '60s as a kid growing up. I lived with my grandparents and they saved them. I always asked people in line that refused the stamps if I could have them and they usually said ok. Taking them home was a great feeling. The S&H redemption stores were very cool and had lots of good stuff to trade for. Another neat American tradition shot down!
Wow... I didnt know they were still doing these as recently as 2020!! I havent seen those stamps since ~1980
MuvoTX , Same here. I honestly believe the S & H Green Stamps disappeared in the late 1070's. Of course I could be wrong it's very possible they could have been around in 1980 or 81.
They were still around in the 80s and early 90s after about 91 or 92 they disappeared.
Thank you for posting.... this really was a time much better and a time lost God I miss those days so much I can't even put into words. A world so much better than today
Ahhh, fond memories... still have a few stamps and books in the kitchen drawer. Look clean bright and green, good as new the day we got them...
Worthless now tho.... I weep for my 3 sons and 7 grandkids.....I cld swere the miillenials will welcome commnunism
Maybe sell them on Ebay. It seems everything can be sold
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Wow! This video solves a big mystery for me. I'm 36 years old, but growing up, my grandparents had old booklets filled with those green stamps in a kitchen cabinet. Those booklets were older than me, probably from the 60's or 70's. When I was really little, I was fascinated by those booklets filled with "postage stamps." I liked playing with the booklets and flipping through them. So awesome to finally find out what those stamps were for. I enjoyed reading the stories in the comments section of this video, where viewers shared their memories of their moms or grandmas collecting those stamps.
The good old days
I remember glueing the stamps into the books for my mom and dad.
I don't care for Cryptocurrency, I'd rather have S&H Green Stamps again...😭
I second that!
THERE ya go, Luis!
Same here.
I third this
The music, your voice, the nostalgia! Your trips down memory road are cathartic, healing and happy.
Yeaa. I remember S H Green stamps. I 54 years old. I remember when grocery stores gave them when I was little.
Don't forget about the yellow Top Value stamps. 😏 Thanks for sharing ♥️
I got my first Sony Walkman with S&H green stamps from my mom shopping at A&P foods. There was a redemption center in Hillside IL, right next to that infamous interchange Chicagoans know as the Hillside Strangler.
294 or was it a real murder
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A murder??
I remember that to.
some time news radio 78 calls its hill side straggler meaning 294 bottles heck
Or 'Malfunction Junction'
We had several items in our house from S&H. I remember the feel of the stamps and the messy books of stamps that we would excitedly take to the store. Love the video, very relaxing, well done!
My parents use to collect these stamps in the 50's & 60's.
Being born in 1959 I remember S & H Green Stamps being collected by my Mom way back in the early 1960's thru the 1970's.By the end of the 1970's I can't remember anyone giving the out in the 1980's. And I'm sure the S & H Green Stamps store was gone as well.
Love those old catalogues.
I was happy to see the same art style in a* favorite video game of many: Red Dead 2.
In 1963, the Nuns of Notre Dame School in St Louis turned in their 3.5 cases of Green Stamps for a new 1963 Rambler Classic sedan.
Is this close to home?? I live about 10 south of Notre Dame High School in St louis
Ha!!!! Hilarious. Can you imagine buying a car with stamps today?
I remember these. Nice job bringing these bits of Americana to TH-cam. This was a long gone day.
I loved S&H Green Stamps. It was a way to get something nice without having to ask your husband for money and hear the lecture about how you should be more thrifty and learn to budget.
I liked S&H green stamps. Every time mom went shopping she got S&H green stamps she let me put them in the book that the stamps would go in. My mom bought stuff with them. I miss those days.
When I was first married in 1955 we got a lot of our needed things by saving S&H stamps. Our camping gear, out first child's car seat and stroller. A toaster and small appliances. We were used to putting stamps in books because we had ration books during WWII that we filled and exchanged for War Bonds. America worked in the 1950's people lived within their means. One parent could have a blue color job and support a family of 5 buy a house and even buy a new car. There were no credit cards and Americans had a chance to achieve the American dream. We had reasonable healthcare cost. We didn't have college debt our employers paid for our college. What an idea educate your employees to be better employees and give them a chance to climb up the ladder of success. America used to work for the people instead of Wall Street.
My parents loved the green stamps & shopping there was fun. I do recall that the stores were always very busy.
If I remember correctly back In the 1960's at the A&P in northern NJ a machine used to spit out the Stamps according to how much money you spent. Like the Skee Ball machine used to spit out tickets down the shore
Yes you are correct.I remember that machine well.
I still have a horse T.V. lamp that my Aunt Emma bought with the green stamps she saved. I remember her sitting at her card table and using a small wet sponge to wet and stick them in the books. I miss my Aunt Emma!
This was a great promotional tool. They were fun to collect helped those striving to make ends meet.
Oh momma and her green stamps! She loved her green stamp things. ❤️
The dislikes are from people who never redeemed their stamps.
lol some people just go around disliking things some are paid to do it especially some political content.
I wish TH-cam had an in-between to check. Neither like nor dislike; just a "eh I've seen it, don't need to see it again".
@@389383 If you tap the three small dots to the right of the title it brings a drop down menu into view and from there you have five choices, one of which is "not interested." Once that has been tapped a "tell us why" question is presented and once you tap that you'll have two choices, one of which is "I've already seen the video" and the other is "I don't like the video." Once you make your selection a "Got it. We'll tune your recommendations" pop up acknowledgement is displayed and you're done. Hope this helps.
@@2fas4me2 But why should we have to go those extra steps when an in-between would be easy to create and have available.
@@389383 Hey, don't shoot the messenger. At least there's a way. I do agree things should be easier. Have you noticed that advertisements are now at the end of many videos? Once the video starts the comments are covered up with additional advertisment. It takes two "back" pushes and then the "X" to close the video and begin the scroll for something else to watch. This is now driving me to the brink!
I can still see the inside of the Kelly Geeen top kitchen cabinet drawer next to our white Magic Chef oven filled with loose S&H Green Stamps. Additionally, I remember sitting at our kitchen table, helping my mother by licking the stamps as she placed them inside the books.
When we visited my grandmother, she'd give Morher extra stamps. Nanny always kept envelopes of stamps to give my aunts and Mother.
If you filled up at certain gas stations, they gave you large, elegant, drinking glasses in deep green or deep gold colors. I still have a few.
Oh wow, this video brought back some fond memories. I was a child of the 60's and my mom and I collected and redeemed many books of stamps back then in south Florida :-)
I just started following this channel and have really enjoyed learning the history of businesses throughout the decades in America.
I assume the closest we'll get to time travel at the moment.
me, too. And I'm loving it. Looks like many of us like returning to the "thrilling days of yesteryear"
Almost all my childhood birthday presents came from green stamps and the idea book/catalogs
* catalogues
@@Perririri …my spelling is correct
Does anyone here remember Plaid Stamps? I think A & P used to give those out.
Yes.
R Stefanie . I myself was wondering if anyone remembered Gold Stamps ????
I do remember the A&P stamps but not any plaid pattern. We only ever had very few of them so I can't remember if A&P was an actual grocery branch nor whether my Mother ever cashed any in.
My family and I used to collect S&aH green stamps. We used them to get the stuff we needed.
I don't miss the stamps so much as the times in which they were used.
So much better time in America
Used to see these in Jiffy Stores. And if you ever drive through Bowie, TX, they still have an S&H Green Stamp sign standing.
gosh I remember S & H green stamps. it was a way of life. my mom & grandma would pool their stamps for trading. those were the days. long gone.
Love the memories this "Recollection Road" brings back. I travel, in my mind, to so many wonderful times in my life.