What could you purchase with Green Stamps in the 1970s? Let's check out this groovy catalog and see! Follow me on Instagram @paperandmoose #greenstamps #vintageshopping #1970s
Oh my....yes....I have a Green Stamp memory. A close friend's sister invited me to her wedding. I gave her a lovely set of crystal beer mugs and pitcher. A few weeks after the wedding my friend called and said her sister wanted to know where I bought the set as the newlyweds loved the mugs and wanted to buy more. I had to sheepishly say.....I got it with Green Stamps at the store in Easton....I was so embarrassed. The new bride called me laughing and said to not feel that way at all...it was one of their favorite gifts! LOL
It's the thought that counts. Apparently my great grandmother bought something like a set of spice jars and the matching rack that also had egg cups (1 complete set). She split that between my parents (wedding present) and my aunties that was in 1971. Imagine getting half of a gift set, lol.
Back in 1971 I sold Kirby vacuums from door to door on commission and just to demonstrate the vacuums you had your choice of 6 steak knives or 500 S&H green stamps. The people always took the green stamps and never bought the vacuum. That job lasted 3 weeks because the only money I made was a nickel I found in the street. LOL
@@PaperandMoose My younger Brother By about 1 1/2 yrs( I'm 66 now ) tried selling Kirby's too. Was probably around 1978 or 79. He sold my ex-wife and I one. He bought 1 too. I think He did it just so he could get it at cost or some, or a heavy discount. S&H story-- Publix in Florida really promoted the Green Stamps (60's and 70's )and in many cases there was a green stamp store right next to the Supermarket in that Shopping Center. Publix used to run in their Weekly Sale ad that if you bought various specific items and clipped the coupon for it out of the paper... you got an additional 50 or 100 extra stamps for that 1 item purchase. Later on I started working for Publix (Bag-boy and Stocker ) and some people would have a long list after checking out. You also earned like 10 stamps for every $10 in purchases.. something like that. Customers REALLY LOVED getting their Green Stamps.. like Free money
Renee, I am 79 and remember my mother in Okla. using Green Stamps. I got to help put them in her books. I watch your video from the state of WA. everyday. I told a historian friend about your Civil War find. Keep doing what you do....Rosemary
I remember these. Grandma always had me put them in the books. I thought it was fun. When we went to get groceries they would dial the amount of green stamps we earned.
My parents saved up enough to get a pretty nice record player with detachable speakers. I played many records on it. I would sit on the front porch and listen through the screen door on summer evenings.
My mom taught me how to put the stamps in the book. I licked a lot of them 😂 Mom picked what she wanted and saved her books. She was always happy going to the S & H redemption center that was nearby. I can’t remember what she got because I was left to browse myself. I as around five or six. Very good memory. Thank you, I needed a good smile today. 🤗🤣🦋
After graduation from college in the late 70's my mother got my iron and ironing board from the S&H Green Stamp store. And yes, most all my life I helped her fill her books with stamps she got from Jitney Jungle. Such simple and slower times. I miss them in a lot of ways. Thanks for the memories. God bless. Sherry from Alabama.
When my daughter was 3 and her dad was in college, I gave her my Green Stamp catalogue to look for presents from Santa--and she got everything she wanted!
Yes for sure, I'd go to my Grandparents in the summer and they'd save their stamps all year for me. Then I'd put them all in the books and we go and I'd get to pick out a gift for my Grandma for the house. It was so fun!!
Gosh I remember in the fifties sitting at my grandmother's kitchen table with a wet sponge and helping her put the stamps into the books. Everyone in the small town where she lived would give her their stamps so she had many beautiful things that she got. We had to drive from Cisco to Abilene to the stamp store there to turn the stamps in and and order or get what she wanted. The most expensive thing I can remember is her dining room table and chairs. She also saved Raleigh coupons
When I was getting married my mom gave me some books of s& h green stamps and we went and I was able to get some towels. Was not much longer that they went out of business. It was 1974 when I was married. Nice memories of times gone by.
OMG!!! i am 68 and remember my single mom using her stamp books for birthday and christmas gifts. i would help her lick the stamps and place them in the books. i think i might have one or two books kicking around yet.
We grew up licking Green Stamps and some Yellow (Top Value) Stamps in the 1960s. Many happy hours were spent perusing the catalog in search of treasures. I would love to see a Green Stamp catalog to see if the rooster cookie jar is in it. My grandmother got one for us with stamps along with so many other things. I still had the rooster cookie jar, made in Mexico, until recently when I gave it that friend who has a rooster and chickens. The rooster cookie jar survived many moves with me in the last 40 years and is at least 60 years old.
A few years ago I bought a huge box of S&H stamps at auction for just a few bucks. Turns out that a company had bought the name and wanted to turn S&H into some hokey new "digital loyalty reward" redemption service for online retailers but still honored the old stamps. I sent in tens of thousands of them and got a few $100 gift cards for the effort!
This is the first time I saw a compilation video on this channel and I also greatly enjoyed it. And now I am enjoying reading every comment too. I feel so 'nostalgic' after watching that!
When I saw your video yesterday I didn’t see the S&H. When I was young, our whole family went together to an S&H green stamp store to pick out free things with our stamp books !!! Those were the days!!!
I grew up with green stamps also. I'm pretty sure our card table and folding chairs came from there and probably my tinkertoy set. My Mother in law collected as well. I think some store also offered yellow stamps if I remember right. Great memories! Thanks for sharing!
Green Stamps remind me of my mom. I would do the pasting into the books and then we would go shopping at the green stamp store. The chicken casserole was an item that was in our house. My mom used it for Swedish meatballs. You brought back some nice memories. Thanks so much.
Oh what a memory this is for me. I’m now 62 years old and to this day, my 84 year old mama still talks about the day, when I was just a toddler, she’d left me in my “car seat” while she took a bag of groceries into the house. When she returned just moments later, I had already gotten her S&H green stamps and had stuck them all over the car ceiling above my head. She said she couldn’t get mad at me because I was looking at them in wonder; like they were stars in the sky. Thank you for sharing the video. Take care. Stay safe. God bless.
I remember licking stamps and filling up books in the late 60's. When we cleaned out my Mom and Dad's house after they had passed we found a few of the books. It brought back memories. I recognize some of the items you showed like the electric hand mixer.
That was my job, licking green stamps and plaid stamps. We always had to get something useful, not toys. We had the yellow round stack canister set. I still like them, and wish I had not gotten rid of mine.
I remember licking stamps and fitting them into books. Yuck. I got the idea to wet them with a sponge and got them too wet. I didn't remember anything purchased with the stamps until I saw the yellow/flowered, fringed patio umbrella. I remember the crank and that it tilted. It was very heavy. It lasted a very long time.
Thank you Renee, hadn’t thought of these until you got the book and had never seen inside. My mother would give my grandmother the stamps and I remember her getting the black clock with silver spikes- but in gold. I so admired that clock and wished it could have been ours! Such a happy Memory almost brought me to tears. They are both long gone, I miss them.
Oh what memories, I do recall going into the G & H store with my mother. I can’t really recall what she purchased but I remember standing in line there and where the store was. Nice presentation. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 ~ Texas
Owned some of the items pictured. Have some stamps now. Sometimes would sell the filled books at the stamp store. Sure miss it. Thanks for the memories.
I don’t remember what it looked like, but I do remember my Mom letting me pick out a sleeping bag at the S&H store! I was so excited! Wish I had a picture of it to share.
I married in 1960 and collected green stamps to decorate my first little house. My first purchase was a white hen and rooster . I still use them today displayed on my antique kitchen cupboard with my antique picture and bowl beside them. Many have ask where I got them and most laugh when I tell them green stamps. I treasure them dearly !
Enjoyed the video My dad was a minister when I was a kid and one time the women in his church all collected Green Stamps to give to him for his birthday as a gift. Much have been a good many because I remember us getting a big inflatable rubber boat with them! Had enough to get two fishing rods too We had Plaid Stamps also, think my dad used them to get a portable radio
Interesting! I was born in '79 (Xennial/The Oregon Trail generation!) so I missed that scene. Not quite sure about those 70s style trends! Thanks for the fun video! - Mark
Back in the 1970's I worked with a guy at Century Boat Company. Part of his job was signing for fuel oil shipments to the several buildings located in the Manistee, Michigan area. The fuel company would give S&H Green Stamps with each fuel oil delivery. He was always getting stuff from S&H. Televisions, bicycles, furniture and all kinds of stuff. Pretty cool.
Aaahhh such good memories of a bygone era (my childhood!) Those clocks? Omgosh they just don’t make them like that anymore. LOVE your channel, Renee. I’m new!🥰 Not to change the subject or anything, but those Civil War diaries 😳😲 Looking forward to hearing excerpts, hopefully soon! Wow what a find! You were meant to be there at that moment.
My Mom & Dad married in the late 1940's and as a young girl I remember my Mom getting her green stamps. She'd pour over the gift book and dream about what she was going to get. And she got some really nice things. These items weren't junk, they were quality items and it gave her great joy.
Asked my 86 year old Mom if she could remember things she purchased with her stamp books. "Oh yes, I bought your brother a few Tonka trucks and a decorative three set of ceramic flamingos and dish."(would have around late '50-'60) I remember that three piece set. Every once in awhile I see similar pieces on eBay. Wish we still had it. I was born in '65 and remember going one time to the redemption store. Green stamps were always in the bottom of my mother's purses! Lol
When I got married in 1967 my Mom gave us a lot of stamp books to get some melamine dishes and a few other things for our home. She was on a tight budget so they were a great gift for us.
We had a very similar scheme here in the UK where they were called Green Shield Stamps. Although lots of shops offered them the largest quantities seemed to come from petrol (ie gas) stations who competed on volume of stamps rather than price. I remember clearing the big signs offering 'Double Stamps', 'Triple Stamps' or even 'Quadruple Stamps'. When the scheme wound up in the late 70s (if I recall correctly) most of the redemption centres converted to 'Argos' catalogue shops which was a new concept here at the time. Rather than having any goods on display you chose from a catalogue, either at home or in store, wrote down the reference number, took it to a cashier who would pass the order to the backroom, and then waited for your order to be brought out to you. Basically, the exactly same as the old stamp shops but with cash instead of stamps! There was also a similar scheme operated then by the Co-operative Society shops who, instead of paying a members dividend ('divi'), as they had previously done, rather issued blue stamps with every sale that could be then exchanged for goods in their stores. One good feature of their scheme was that they could also issue bigger stamps, for example to the value of a full page, when you made a more expensive purchase, like a piece of furniture.
My grandma would always shop at the little Grab It Here grocery store so she could get the S&H green stamps. I do not remember what she bought with them but I remember helping her put the stamps in the books.
My mom & Nan were A&P shoppers when we lived in NY. They had Plaid Stamps. I remember big couch lamps & a round convex mirror gold w/ eagle being the big gets.
My aunt had that bread box. My mom and my aunt both saved up for the three ducks. The mother and the two baby mallard ducks. Wow, this was a cool stroll down memory lane.
I remember going to the Green Stamp store with my mother many times in the 60s. I have a metal lemon tree on the wall in my kitchen that she got there.
I remember mom using the stamps in the late sixties for lady percale sheet sets and big thick towels, last year I purchased 27 green s&h greens stamps 15 large yellow books and two catalogs from the 60s for $25 from Facebook market place. I use them in my junk journals.
Great video. Someone mentioned Raleigh coupons which were on cigarette pkgs. another person mentioned plaid stamps. I can’t remember my family ever saving those. When I was just married was the time gas stations gave out the character glasses. My grandma would get green dishes from Quaker oatmeal boxes.
In New Orleans we also had Top Value stamps, which were just like Green Stamps. I bought tennis balls and silverware. It was so fun to save the stamps, but licking them wasn't!! I liked it when we got the " 50 " stamps and one would count for a whole page of singles. Taught me that saving was something I could do. Good Times!!
The last S&H posted sign is at 5757 Hollister Ave., Goleta, CA. You can see it with Google Street View. It's still there! 💖📗 When I was in my 20s I got in my car and drove to California and lived there for 3 years!.. I missed my family so returned. Had a blast! 💖
My Dad bought a small grill (which I still have) several rods and reels, various other fishing tackle and a couple of wrist watches for me with them. 🤣👍🏾
I have a Coleman lamp & Sunbeam 30 cup coffee urn that were purchase in the 1960’s. The urn still makes the best coffee and we used the lamp during hurricane Sandy
I recently bought the chicken casserole at a flea market here in Australia . Perfect condition but without the warming stand. How did the chicken get to Australia? Somebody must have loved it. Now I know its history. Thanks Renee, love your videos.
you may have found your demographic lol. I remember Green stamps. We collected them, but I don't recall my mother turning them in. Maybe she got things for the house and made all the decisions about it. All of us kids loved being the one that put them in the book though. We took turns doing it to keep the peace. I also remember the Brady Bunch episode about it.
I can't remember if it was Green Stamps or Blue Chip stamps. My mom would always save enough to buy the very basic tickets to take us to Disneyland. That was back in the 1960's. That's when they had the ticket books and the "E" ticket rides were the best!
I got my first silverware set with green stamps. so proud. I was young and on a tight budget so it took forever to save up enough. 4/$1.00 mac & cheese, a pound of hamburger meat and pack of hot dogs. $10.00 a week for a family of 3!
when my mom died i had to go through her stuff i am pretty sure i found some of these stamps and some kind of gift cert to i think it was finger hut or something like that. i wish there was someone to sell them to since i cant use them .
Oh my....yes....I have a Green Stamp memory. A close friend's sister invited me to her wedding. I gave her a lovely set of crystal beer mugs and pitcher. A few weeks after the wedding my friend called and said her sister wanted to know where I bought the set as the newlyweds loved the mugs and wanted to buy more. I had to sheepishly say.....I got it with Green Stamps at the store in Easton....I was so embarrassed. The new bride called me laughing and said to not feel that way at all...it was one of their favorite gifts! LOL
Haha, a great story! A fun memory too for the newlyweds!
It's the thought that counts. Apparently my great grandmother bought something like a set of spice jars and the matching rack that also had egg cups (1 complete set). She split that between my parents (wedding present) and my aunties that was in 1971.
Imagine getting half of a gift set, lol.
I remember helping my mom put the stamps in the books. Then we would go to the S&H store. I think we got a sweeper one time. Good Times!!
Back in 1971 I sold Kirby vacuums from door to door on commission and just to demonstrate the vacuums you had your choice of 6 steak knives or 500 S&H green stamps. The people always took the green stamps and never bought the vacuum. That job lasted 3 weeks because the only money I made was a nickel I found in the street. LOL
My ex-husband tried selling Kirby's to and last about the same length of time.
Oh my gosh! I probably would have had the same fate, only finding money on the street haha. Can you imagine being a door to door salesman today?
@@PaperandMoose My younger Brother By about 1 1/2 yrs( I'm 66 now ) tried selling Kirby's too. Was probably around 1978 or 79. He sold my ex-wife and I one. He bought 1 too. I think He did it just so he could get it at cost or some, or a heavy discount.
S&H story-- Publix in Florida really promoted the Green Stamps (60's and 70's )and in many cases there was a green stamp store right next to the Supermarket in that Shopping Center. Publix used to run in their Weekly Sale ad that if you bought various specific items and clipped the coupon for it out of the paper... you got an additional 50 or 100 extra stamps for that 1 item purchase. Later on I started working for Publix (Bag-boy and Stocker ) and some people would have a long list after checking out. You also earned like 10 stamps for every $10 in purchases.. something like that. Customers REALLY LOVED getting their Green Stamps.. like Free money
Renee, I am 79 and remember my mother in Okla. using Green Stamps. I got to help put them in her books. I watch your video from the state of WA. everyday. I told a historian friend about your Civil War find. Keep doing what you do....Rosemary
Hi Rosemary! I am in WA too. I am Carrie. I also love this channel.
I remember these. Grandma always had me put them in the books. I thought it was fun. When we went to get groceries they would dial the amount of green stamps we earned.
My parents saved up enough to get a pretty nice record player with detachable speakers. I played many records on it. I would sit on the front porch and listen through the screen door on summer evenings.
My mom taught me how to put the stamps in the book. I licked a lot of them 😂 Mom picked what she wanted and saved her books. She was always happy going to the S & H redemption center that was nearby. I can’t remember what she got because I was left to browse myself. I as around five or six. Very good memory. Thank you, I needed a good smile today. 🤗🤣🦋
I’ve sure put in my share of stamps in those books for my Mother years ago. I loved looking at that catalogue.
After graduation from college in the late 70's my mother got my iron and ironing board from the S&H Green Stamp store. And yes, most all my life I helped her fill her books with stamps she got from Jitney Jungle. Such simple and slower times. I miss them in a lot of ways. Thanks for the memories. God bless. Sherry from Alabama.
When my daughter was 3 and her dad was in college, I gave her my Green Stamp catalogue to look for presents from Santa--and she got everything she wanted!
Yes for sure, I'd go to my Grandparents in the summer and they'd save their stamps all year for me. Then I'd put them all in the books and we go and I'd get to pick out a gift for my Grandma for the house. It was so fun!!
Gosh I remember in the fifties sitting at my grandmother's kitchen table with a wet sponge and helping her put the stamps into the books. Everyone in the small town where she lived would give her their stamps so she had many beautiful things that she got. We had to drive from Cisco to Abilene to the stamp store there to turn the stamps in and and order or get what she wanted. The most expensive thing I can remember is her dining room table and chairs. She also saved Raleigh coupons
Oh wow, I can imagine it must have taken quite a few books to get a whole dining room table & chairs!
When I was getting married my mom gave me some books of s& h green stamps and we went and I was able to get some towels. Was not much longer that they went out of business. It was 1974 when I was married. Nice memories of times gone by.
OMG!!! i am 68 and remember my single mom using her stamp books for birthday and christmas gifts. i would help her lick the stamps and place them in the books. i think i might have one or two books kicking around yet.
Yes, I am 64 and in California we had a big stamp store. I loved saving the books to buy something.
We grew up licking Green Stamps and some Yellow (Top Value) Stamps in the 1960s. Many happy hours were spent perusing the catalog in search of treasures. I would love to see a Green Stamp catalog to see if the rooster cookie jar is in it. My grandmother got one for us with stamps along with so many other things. I still had the rooster cookie jar, made in Mexico, until recently when I gave it that friend who has a rooster and chickens. The rooster cookie jar survived many moves with me in the last 40 years and is at least 60 years old.
A few years ago I bought a huge box of S&H stamps at auction for just a few bucks. Turns out that a company had bought the name and wanted to turn S&H into some hokey new "digital loyalty reward" redemption service for online retailers but still honored the old stamps. I sent in tens of thousands of them and got a few $100 gift cards for the effort!
That is a great story!
Thank you for putting this video together! It doesn't go unnoticed how much work you put into these type of videos. Enjoyed it very much! 💕
This is the first time I saw a compilation video on this channel and I also greatly enjoyed it. And now I am enjoying reading every comment too. I feel so 'nostalgic' after watching that!
I just had burnt orange and avocado green flash back. I grew up with a green frig. I still have many of my mom's green stamp treasures.
We had the avocado green appliances too!
Got married in 1972. They helped a struggling young couple buy things they needed. Wished they still did them.
It's amazing what all one could exchange their books for, from furniture to boats!
It was the early customer rewards program, like the cards nowadays.
I grew up liking these stamps too! I still have a nice Scrabble game from stamps.
When I saw your video yesterday I didn’t see the S&H. When I was young, our whole family went together to an S&H green stamp store to pick out free things with our stamp books !!! Those were the days!!!
Love it! Great job, Renee!
I remember getting a Motorific slot car set with S&H green stamps as a kid, probably about the same year as your catalog.
Sometimes when things were tight the stamp books get Christmas toys. Always shopped the day the grocery store gave double stamps.
Those were the days! I used those to purchase most of the nursery items for my daughter. Loved the video!
I grew up with green stamps also. I'm pretty sure our card table and folding chairs came from there and probably my tinkertoy set. My Mother in law collected as well. I think some store also offered yellow stamps if I remember right. Great memories! Thanks for sharing!
My memories of green stamp licking and shopping are from the 1960's. It was so much fun to look at the catalog.
Great memories 💕
My mom did Green Stamps and we loved looking threw the catalog. :)
Green Stamps remind me of my mom. I would do the pasting into the books and then we would go shopping at the green stamp store. The chicken casserole was an item that was in our house. My mom used it for Swedish meatballs. You brought back some nice memories. Thanks so much.
Oh what a memory this is for me. I’m now 62 years old and to this day, my 84 year old mama still talks about the day, when I was just a toddler, she’d left me in my “car seat” while she took a bag of groceries into the house. When she returned just moments later, I had already gotten her S&H green stamps and had stuck them all over the car ceiling above my head. She said she couldn’t get mad at me because I was looking at them in wonder; like they were stars in the sky. Thank you for sharing the video. Take care. Stay safe. God bless.
I remember licking stamps and filling up books in the late 60's. When we cleaned out my Mom and Dad's house after they had passed we found a few of the books. It brought back memories. I recognize some of the items you showed like the electric hand mixer.
Just remembering licking the stamps and putting them in the books when my parents came home from grocery shopping.
Fun clip 😃
That was my job, licking green stamps and plaid stamps. We always had to get something useful, not toys. We had the yellow round stack canister set. I still like them, and wish I had not gotten rid of mine.
I remember licking stamps and fitting them into books. Yuck. I got the idea to wet them with a sponge and got them too wet. I didn't remember anything purchased with the stamps until I saw the yellow/flowered, fringed patio umbrella. I remember the crank and that it tilted. It was very heavy. It lasted a very long time.
We had a stamp party one time and my parents got a TV. We all sat around putting stamps in books and of course eating!
Thank you Renee, hadn’t thought of these until you got the book and had never seen inside. My mother would give my grandmother the stamps and I remember her getting the black clock with silver spikes- but in gold.
I so admired that clock and wished it could have been ours!
Such a happy
Memory almost brought me to tears. They are both long gone, I miss them.
This is a great presentation Renee Great music,selection.You are so clever👍🏼
This vid brings back wonderful old memories of my Mom and her green stamps.
Like the presentation, Renne! I use to save & redeem S& H Green stamps. You could get some nice things w/them. Do take care. (Fl.)
Oh what memories, I do recall going into the G & H store with my mother. I can’t really recall what she purchased but I remember standing in line there and where the store was. Nice presentation. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 ~ Texas
Owned some of the items pictured. Have some stamps now. Sometimes would sell the filled books at the stamp store. Sure miss it. Thanks for the memories.
I don’t remember what it looked like, but I do remember my Mom letting me pick out a sleeping bag at the S&H store! I was so excited! Wish I had a picture of it to share.
I married in 1960 and collected green stamps to decorate my first little house. My first purchase was a white hen and rooster . I still use them today displayed on my antique kitchen cupboard with my antique picture and bowl beside them. Many have ask where I got them and most laugh when I tell them green stamps. I treasure them dearly !
I was born and raised in Hawaii. We had Gold Bond stamps along with S&H stamps. Love your videos
In the UK they were called Green Shield Stamps and l got my first Squash Racket with them ('only' 1.4 million stamps😃)
1.4 million stamps... but worth it! Haha :0)
I actually remember this catalog cover! My mom collected green stamps for years. We had a lot of fun deciding what we would buy.
I remember pretty much all of those things. They weren’t all in my parents home but lots of friends had these “modern decor items”.
Enjoyed the video
My dad was a minister when I was a kid and one time the women in his church all collected Green Stamps to give to him for his birthday as a gift.
Much have been a good many because I remember us getting a big inflatable rubber boat with them!
Had enough to get two fishing rods too
We had Plaid Stamps also, think my dad used them to get a portable radio
Interesting! I was born in '79 (Xennial/The Oregon Trail generation!) so I missed that scene. Not quite sure about those 70s style trends! Thanks for the fun video! - Mark
Back in the 1970's I worked with a guy at Century Boat Company. Part of his job was signing for fuel oil shipments to the several buildings located in the Manistee, Michigan area. The fuel company would give S&H Green Stamps with each fuel oil delivery. He was always getting stuff from S&H. Televisions, bicycles, furniture and all kinds of stuff. Pretty cool.
Aaahhh such good memories of a bygone era (my childhood!) Those clocks? Omgosh they just don’t make them like that anymore. LOVE your channel, Renee. I’m new!🥰
Not to change the subject or anything, but those Civil War diaries 😳😲 Looking forward to hearing excerpts, hopefully soon! Wow what a find! You were meant to be there at that moment.
My Mom & Dad married in the late 1940's and as a young girl I remember my Mom getting her green stamps. She'd pour over the gift book and dream about what she was going to get. And she got some really nice things. These items weren't junk, they were quality items and it gave her great joy.
Asked my 86 year old Mom if she could remember things she purchased with her stamp books. "Oh yes, I bought your brother a few Tonka trucks and a decorative three set of ceramic flamingos and dish."(would have around late '50-'60) I remember that three piece set. Every once in awhile I see similar pieces on eBay. Wish we still had it. I was born in '65 and remember going one time to the redemption store. Green stamps were always in the bottom of my mother's purses! Lol
My cousin and I used to fuss overwho got to.put them in grandma's books
Hi Renee. Thank you for sharing this beautiful video. God Bless, and be safe. Maria.🎠🎢📸☎🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏💖💖💖👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏💖💖💖💖💖❤❤❤❤
When I got married in 1967 my Mom gave us a lot of stamp books to get some melamine dishes and a few other things for our home. She was on a tight budget so they were a great gift for us.
We had a very similar scheme here in the UK where they were called Green Shield Stamps. Although lots of shops offered them the largest quantities seemed to come from petrol (ie gas) stations who competed on volume of stamps rather than price. I remember clearing the big signs offering 'Double Stamps', 'Triple Stamps' or even 'Quadruple Stamps'.
When the scheme wound up in the late 70s (if I recall correctly) most of the redemption centres converted to 'Argos' catalogue shops which was a new concept here at the time. Rather than having any goods on display you chose from a catalogue, either at home or in store, wrote down the reference number, took it to a cashier who would pass the order to the backroom, and then waited for your order to be brought out to you. Basically, the exactly same as the old stamp shops but with cash instead of stamps!
There was also a similar scheme operated then by the Co-operative Society shops who, instead of paying a members dividend ('divi'), as they had previously done, rather issued blue stamps with every sale that could be then exchanged for goods in their stores. One good feature of their scheme was that they could also issue bigger stamps, for example to the value of a full page, when you made a more expensive purchase, like a piece of furniture.
My mom collected them! I remember her putting them in the books. Good memories!
My grandma would always shop at the little Grab It Here grocery store so she could get the S&H green stamps. I do not remember what she bought with them but I remember helping her put the stamps in the books.
My mom & Nan were A&P shoppers when we lived in NY. They had Plaid Stamps. I remember big couch lamps & a round convex mirror gold w/ eagle being the big gets.
I too remember shopping with my mom (NY) at A&P and getting Plaid Stamps. Good video. Got a record player using Plaid Stamps.
My aunt had that bread box. My mom and my aunt both saved up for the three ducks. The mother and the two baby mallard ducks. Wow, this was a cool stroll down memory lane.
I remember they made my grandmother so happy you'd of thought they were gold . They were after all free to a lady that lived through the depression .
This was great and perfect music choice.
I remember going to the Green Stamp store with my mother many times in the 60s. I have a metal lemon tree on the wall in my kitchen that she got there.
My mother collected the green stamps and there was coupons on pack of cigarettes you could redeem them too.
I have a bunch of filled books from my mom.....Do you think they are worth anything?
I remember mom using the stamps in the late sixties for lady percale sheet sets and big thick towels, last year I purchased 27 green s&h greens stamps 15 large yellow books and two catalogs from the 60s for $25 from Facebook market place. I use them in my junk journals.
Great video. Someone mentioned Raleigh coupons which were on cigarette pkgs. another person mentioned plaid stamps. I can’t remember my family ever saving those. When I was just married was the time gas stations gave out the character glasses. My grandma would get green dishes from Quaker oatmeal boxes.
Yeah Green stamps & Blue Chip stamps my mom saved.
We had to wet the stamps and stick them in the books. I don't remember getting anything exciting so it must have all been household stuff.😄
In New Orleans we also had Top Value stamps, which were just like Green Stamps. I bought tennis balls and silverware. It was so fun to save the stamps, but licking them wasn't!! I liked it when we got the " 50 " stamps and one would count for a whole page of singles. Taught me that saving was something I could do. Good Times!!
I remember going to the Green Stamp store with my mother to redeem the Green Stamp books...but I don't remember what we purchased. But good memories.
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I remember going to the redemption center. In Chicago, Wieboldt's department store gave out green stamps. Tina
The last S&H posted sign is at 5757 Hollister Ave., Goleta, CA. You can see it with Google Street View. It's still there! 💖📗 When I was in my 20s I got in my car and drove to California and lived there for 3 years!.. I missed my family so returned. Had a blast! 💖
Hopping in your car & moving to California... I'm sure it was an experience not to be forgotten!
My Dad bought a small grill (which I still have) several rods and reels, various other fishing tackle and a couple of wrist watches for me with them. 🤣👍🏾
Thanks for the memories, my mom had a few of those things.
I have an August birthday and for my 18th right before I left for college, my mom got me a Dictionary with green stamps. I still have it!
Love this!
I have a Coleman lamp & Sunbeam 30 cup coffee urn that were purchase in the 1960’s. The urn still makes the best coffee and we used the lamp during hurricane Sandy
I don’t think we had green stamp books here in Australia. We were able to save coupons from Lan-Choo tea and trade them for items though. 😀
I recently bought the chicken casserole at a flea market here in Australia . Perfect condition but without the warming stand. How did the chicken get to Australia? Somebody must have loved it. Now I know its history. Thanks Renee, love your videos.
How fun! Now I wonder how it got there too...
I remember my mom collecting Green Stamps.
My mom’s tea set was purchased by my grandmother with s&h stamps
you may have found your demographic lol. I remember Green stamps. We collected them, but I don't recall my mother turning them in. Maybe she got things for the house and made all the decisions about it. All of us kids loved being the one that put them in the book though. We took turns doing it to keep the peace. I also remember the Brady Bunch episode about it.
I remember getting my roller skates and case at the S&H Green stamp store
I can't remember if it was Green Stamps or Blue Chip stamps. My mom would always save enough to buy the very basic tickets to take us to Disneyland. That was back in the 1960's. That's when they had the ticket books and the "E" ticket rides were the best!
I remember my mother collected Green Stamps. I don’t remember if she every bought anything with them.
I got my first silverware set with green stamps. so proud. I was young and on a tight budget so it took forever to save up enough. 4/$1.00 mac & cheese, a pound of hamburger meat and pack of hot dogs. $10.00 a week for a family of 3!
I saw so many things my Mom bought with stamps. She would buy with plaid stamps too.
when my mom died i had to go through her stuff i am pretty sure i found some of these stamps and some kind of gift cert to i think it was finger hut or something like that. i wish there was someone to sell them to since i cant use them .
Have these right next to my Subway Club stamps!
I have the strawberry canisters. Have no idea what happened to the shakers
That’s awesome we had that same umberalla my mom got with her stamps
My first electric guitar was from S&H Green Stamps.
I still have books of them!
Got my softball mitt there I used it a million times
Still have a box of stamps