Random Nostalgia - who else remembers these?

[NRaleighLiberal]

I think the best thing my dad got was an oscillating sprinkler for all of my parent's stamp licking and sticking efforts!

[emilyg]

1. I do.

[Kaleva]

2. I do.

[Ikonoklast]

3. Mom got a toaster.

That thing lasted twenty years, it wa built like an Iowa Class battleship.

[Rhiannon12866]

47. My grandmother got a toaster for opening a new bank account

She gave it to my parents. We had that for a lot of years...

[The Magistrate]

4. We Had Shoe-Boxes Full Of Them, Sir

Long since forgot what was gotten with them, though.

[CBHagman]

5. I even collected them when I was a student!

But of course there were never enough to get anything.

[liberaltrucker]

6. Jeez, I was hoping for beer and travel money

Yeah, I remember those. Mom and Grandma were obsessive collectors.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. You just have to collect enough! I remember these in about the same era as the Hamm's bear bear

and Bucky Beaver pimping Ipana

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. Ipana!

http://buyloofah.com/video/show/q0po-g28uTg/related_videos

[hifiguy]

21. I thought the Hamm's Bear was great.

The animated commercials were always funny.

[geardaddy]

33. They still serve Hamm's around town.

I know you can get it a Lee's Liquor Lounge.

[The Magistrate]

39. The Commercials Were Great, Sir, Still Remember Them Fondly: The Beer...Was Not...

You could get exactly the same taste by adding some water to a glass of Schlitz, which, by the way, is pretty much what Coors tasted like, and that was about my least favorite beer.

[hifiguy]

42. The Bear was definitely better than the beer.

Which can still be found in liquor stores around the upper midwest. Still tastes like Hamm's. Which is pretty much as you described.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

52. From the land of sky blue wa-a-ters....

comes the beer refreshing.... I used the that jingle when I was a kid!

[jamesatemple]

58. Ah, the effects of those early commercials!

Before the sermon began in a little independent Baptist church in Garland, Texas, the song leader gave us the page number of the next hymn that we were to murder. During that page-turning pause, the voice of a four- or five-year-old girl rang out, "Hello, mellow Jax, little darlin'". She sang the beer jingle off key, her parents "shushed" her and an instant of dead quiet followed. Then, someone snickered and that was the catalyst that "brought the house down".

S & H Green Stamps? I think that there are still some around this old house. Thanks for reminding me.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

63. Great story!

[likesmountains 52]

8. My mom would sit us kids down like an assembly line to get those stamps glued in the books.

One sister tearing them in to page size strips, another one getting them wet on a sponge, and another one pasting them in to the books.

[Bombero1956]

10. wow brings back memories

I remember going with my parents to the S&H store in Agawam Mass. My mom would go in and leave us and my dad in the car.

[Duer 157099]

11. I still have some

But yeah, I have fond memories of pasting them into those books

[Art_from_Ark]

12. My mom got a rocking chair with Green Stamps

I think we also got a cassette tape recorder, but it wasn't very good, and we ended up trading the rest of the books in for cash value (about $3 per book, I think).

[Populist_Prole]

13. I remember them well as a kid in the early 70's

It was exciting getting them and putting them in books toward a goal. I remember gas stations giving them out depending on how much gasoline you purchased. Every little bit helped.

Great thread. Thanks for the nostalgia.

[RiffRandell]

14. I do.

I can't remember anything we got with them.

[CherokeeDem]

15. Ah...Green Stamps...

When I was about 10 yrs old, we did an entire Christmas with Green Stamps...everyone one got at least two gifts that we picked out ourselves at the store. It's been many years but my parents and I still laugh about the Green Stamp Christmas!

Thanks for posting! Brings back great memories!

[HopeHoops]

16. I still have some Green Stamps - and some Yellow Stamps too.

[bleever]

17. My family got a Scotch cooler,

also known as a plaid cooler:



Definitely pre-moon landing.

[Mendocino]

62. We had that exact cooler

but not from green stamps.

Don't you just love the fake stitching on the fake leather.

[RebelOne]

18. Yes, got a lot of great things with S&H stamps. n/t

[dmoyer]

19. i remember them well

thanks for the flashback

[hifiguy]

20. My parents saved them back in the early 1960s.

The grocery store gave them out. I remember a few things around the house that came from Green Stamps.

[HappyMe]

22. My parents used to save them.

I can't recall what they got with them.

[virgdem]

23. I remember them well...

My Mom used to collect S&H Green and Scotch stamps and we got several small items, such as coolers, forks and knives, and such.

We had a standard joke in our family that horrible drivers probably got their license with green stamps.

[Iggo]

24. I do.

We collected Blue Chip Stamps, though.


Was that maybe because it was an east-coast/west-coast thing, or what? The 60's are kinda fuzzy to me. I was only little.

[bluesbassman]

25. I remember getting the Blue Chip stamps too here in the Bay Area. The best "prize" we got...

Was a hand cranked ice cream maker. Yum!

Looked pretty much like this IIRC.

[Brother Buzz]

28. S&H was bigger in the fifties on the west coast

Blue chip surpassed S&H by the mid sixties, partly because they built convenient redemption stores in the suburbs.

[KamaAina]

26. They still exist, as "greenpoints".

Foodtowns in New Jersey give them.

http://greenpoints.com/account/act_default.asp

[Arkansas Granny]

27. I got a set of dishes with those before I got married. I got a few other

household items, also. We had one store, Safeway, I think, that gave Gold Bond stamps. You used them the same way.

[jlayson]

29. THIS is a tomato (Cherokee Purple)

I grew some last year... liked them so well..this year they make up most of the tomatoes

[NRaleighLiberal]

32. Great! (I named that tomato back in 1990 - my claim to fame - and luck!)

[geardaddy]

35. You named it!

Cool! My sister grows them.

[libodem]

30. Ah, yes

Biggest redemption was a 3 shelf tea cart thingie that plugged in. Was between the stove and frig for 40 years.

I also remember the shoe boxes of stamps and all of us kids pasting the stamps into books in anticipation of a trip to Boise.

[geardaddy]

31. I do.

As a kid I got to lick the stamps. It was fun. I didn't even know we got stuff by doing it. I just thought it was a game.

[xloadiex]

34. My mom also collected

Plaid stamps from the A&P.

[Still Blue in PDX]

36. Oh, yeah.

My mom gave me a bunch of books to use when I got married and "set up housekeeping." Wish I could remember what I redeemed them for!

I remember spending entire afternoons sticking stamps in the books. That was a chore right up there with rolling pennies to take to the bank! I was slow to learn that it was dangerous to let my mom know I didn't have anything to do and was bored.

[raccoon]

37. I got my first ironing board with green stamps! And a chess set. nt

[JEB]

38. Kind of like the "Rewards"

programs offered by various businesses....I'd much prefer a small decrease in everyday price to some gimmick.

[northoftheborder]

40. I certainly remember Green Stamps, collecting them, pasting them in books and then redeeming

them for lots of household items. My Mother and I put ours together for a while and bought a joint use silver coffee and tea service.

[northoftheborder]

41. What I miss about the "olden days" was getting free glasses & stuff with your .25 a gallon gas!!!!!!

[LiberalEsto]

44. And they'd clean your windshield too

Ah, those old green tumblers from the Pathmark gas station in Somerset NJ.

[emmadoggy]

43. I do. I was pretty young, but I remember

my mom filling the books with stamps.

[Rhiannon12866]

45. I remember that my mother got a chair

It was pretty nice. She must have saved a lot of stamps...

We also had and probably still have those sprinklers. She might have gotten them with stamps, too...

[Auggie]

46. Oh yeah. We got our first Weber grill.

[femmocrat]

48. I think a lot of my wedding and bridal shower gifts came from there.

I remember going to the store when I was a kid and as a young bride.

We found a box of green stamps when we cleaned out my mom's house a few years ago.

[CottonBear]

49. I do. n/t

[steve2470]

50. I do nt

[ProudProgressiveNow]

51. Yup!

Getting old I guess.

[DebJ]

53. Yep. It was the job of the children in the family to lick them all... n/t

[Mopar151]

54. My Uncle just told me a great Green Stamp story

He was a trucker for the local Texaco distributor, and they kept the trucks, and a lot of inventory, in the old trolleycar barn. He never drank on the road - but when he and his buddies were working/hanging around the carbarn, there was sometimes a pint of blackberry brandy around. One of the guys had a nice, new Chevy with a little bin on the dash - where he faithfully put his Green Stamps. Somebody got the bright idea of taking the green tax stamp/seal off the bottle, and hiding it in the Green Stamps. When the guy's wife gathered up her Green Stamps and found several liquor seals included, no explanation in the world could save him.......

[crunch60]

55. Late 50's, five teenage high school girls, pack of pall mall cigs., were looking to get into some

mischief . We went to the A&P store, took the big metal sign that said, "we give green stamps" loaded it into the car, and drove it to the Bannon funeral home and put it on their front lawn. What a laugh we had, pretty tame compared to today. Small town fun back then.

[Arctic Dave]

56. Andy Warhol did a screen print of them.

That's what I remember.

[1monster]

57. I do! I got a vacuum cleaner in the mid seventies sometime...

I loved green stamps and plaid stamps too.

[guitar man]

59. Yes!

I used to help mom glue them in the books. Couldn't wait to go to the green stamp store. IIRC that's where my first record player came from.

[Liberal Veteran]

60. Yep. Also Gold Bond stamps.

Now Gold Bond is medicated body powder and cream.

In a sense, reward points on various debit and credit cards are the modern day analog to trading stamps.

[Little Star]

61. I saved many of those. Got some good stuff with them too. n/t