Who Remembers Blue Chip Stamps??? And the Blue Chip Stamp Catalogs and Stores???

[NYC_SKP]

And S&H Green Stamps???

Our family used to save all of these and go into town for household things, things we couldn't afford otherwise.

Geeze, I haven't even thought of those for decades, until tonight.

What do you remember about these, old timers?





Next week we'll discuss the Weinermobile.

[madrchsod]

1. yup... my wife and i actually bought stuff from their stores

every once in a while i`ll run across a book or some loose stamps.

[NYC_SKP]

2. It was like free stuff to us kids, though only rarely did we get to pick something.

But boy, when we did!!!

[bluesbassman]

3. I remember the gas station wars.

Gas was the same price everywhere, but you'd get 5x, 10x, 20x stamps. That's where the competition was!

Then you had to paste 'em all in the books. That was always good for killing an evening while watching the old black&white!

[arcadian]

4. I remember when Taco Bell wasn't fast food.

It was just some taco stand. Tacos? What the hell are tacos?

[Fridays Child]

5. I loved pasting the S&H Green Stamps into the books for my mom.

And going to the S&H store to redeem the books was exciting stuff!

[NYC_SKP]

7. It was! I was fun!

My family, (mom, grandma, sister and me), would all look through the catalog, maybe once or twice a year, then get in the oldsmobile and drive the 25 miles or so.

It was consumerism, but it was so much more simple back then.

It was a family event!

[texanwitch]

6. I remember the S&H stamps.

Seems like one needed a lot of stamps to buy anything.

I did buy baseball mitt with the stamps.

[soleiri]

8. I only remember them from the Brady Bunch episode

The house of cards, Tiger jumped on the table...

[Systematic Chaos]

9. I'm 40 and not an old timer yet, thank you kindly!

:P

That said, I certainly do remember the Blue Chip Stamps from my time in Long Beach, CA in the mid 70s, as well as the S&H version from my time in Roanoke, VA in '79 and '80. My mom saved those stamps for eons and was planning on getting some towels and crap, but I talked her into getting me a croquet set for the back yard, because nearly all my friends on the block had one and our back yards were pretty big. :)

Without bothering to check on Wikipedia or anything first, didn't they fold the S&H program sometime about 1984 or so?

[NYC_SKP]

13. 1984 sound kind of late, I'd have guessed the late or mid 1970s.

I'll probably have to check Wikipedia now.

Stand by.

Well, both stamp companies are around in different forms, looks like the stamp parts faltered in the late seventies and disappeared in the 80's, as you suggested.

[Capn Sunshine]

10. Remember they had these at every front door of every supermarket where we got the Blue Chip Stamps?

It was always the guys with pocket protectors that used them
It was fascinating to watch.

[NYC_SKP]

11. Ah yes. I actually used one once to test tubes in my mom's Philco B&W TV.

Good times!

:toast:

[snagglepuss]

16. I had forgotten those. nt

[Kat45]

18. Yup! My father used to bring his tubes to those to test them.

When I was really little, he had a small TV & radio repair business.

[onestepforward]

12. I remember S&H green stamps.

My mom paid for Girl Scout camp for me with them for several years. :)

[madamesilverspurs]

14. Heck yeah!

Mom got furniture, a silver tea/coffee service, all kinds of household stuff. And she got my first guitar with green stamps - it was black with a white music note painted on it, strings made from extruded razor blades.

In the 70s we bowled in a 'green stamp league' - darkened lanes, multi-colored pins, certain combos won lots of stamps. Outfitted the whole bathroom with our 'winnings'- curtains, shower curtain, towels, carpet. Had enough stamps left to get an avocado green electric skillet, and that skillet finally died just last year.

Now, how about those dishes and towels that came inside boxes of detergent?

[snagglepuss]

15. Wasn't it Duz detergent that had the dishes and towels in it?

[Kat45]

17. S&H Green Stamps. Did your mother get that suburst clock that my mother and everyone else's did?

I remember going with my mother to the redemption center every so often when she redeemed the stamps. Does anyone remember the coupons on packages of Raleigh cigarettes? I think it was a similar thing where you saved them up and redeemed them for something but I'm not certain.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

19. and Buckey Beaver, and the Hamms bear and Sky King