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Wow, I completely remember doing those at my grandmother's house.
ReplyDeleteYup, and also the Top Value (yellow) stamps. Collected `em both!
ReplyDeleteDepending on which grocery store you shopped at. Acme had the green stamps, Giant had the yellow ones.
Not only do I remember it, I remember going to the "green stamp" store!
ReplyDeleteWOW! My grandmother used to have piles of green stamps. She would get steak knives, house products and ect. Although I think it cost hundreds of dollars in products to get the stamps to get a knife, but she loved it. Cool memory, Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI got a portable typewriter with these stamps when I was about 14 years old (50 years ago). I remember Grandmom took me on S. Salisbury Blvd. to the S & H store. I was so happy. You pasted the stamps in books and there was a catalog showing what you could get. Oh those were the good old days.
ReplyDeleteDo I ever! Sitting at the table with a sponge and bowl of water, sticking those in the books for mom.
ReplyDeletemy mom still has stuff we got with them. that is a childhood memory when we could go with mom and cash them in
ReplyDeleteWe used to get green stamps at the Sunoco gas station as well as the grocery store. Goodness, those were the days. Life was so easy or so it seems compared to now.
ReplyDeleteYes. My mom collected them. She got me a small "pink" electric radio. (AM) I thought I was rich.
ReplyDeleteI was and didn't know it. Money is not everything.
I vaguely remember something called Plaid Stamps, too.
ReplyDeleteI remember those stamps. When you get about 5,000,000,000,000,000 books full of stamps, you qualify for a chistmas ornament (Plastic)
ReplyDeleteI remember starting my 1st marriage with Lamps ,iron, ironing board,pots and pans and a few other things with S&H green stamps Thought I was doing something!!!!!
ReplyDeleteS & H stood for Sperry & Hutchinson and I remember the store out on S. Salisbury Blvd. across from the college. Everybody saved the stamps and it seemed like it was shopping for free. We never thought about how much our parents spent to fill that book.
ReplyDeleteBack in Virginia in the 1960's we also had "yellow stamps". We had two competing stores: a green stamp store and a yellow stamp store. A majority of the merchants used the green stamps, probably 60-40%. Boy those were days long ago.
ReplyDeleteIN Crisfield we put the S&H sign in the front yards of the Funeral Home. It was a buzz for awhile.
ReplyDeleteI remember when I was expecting my first child and everyone in the family was saving the green stamps for me! I got all kinds of baby equipment with them. Loved it!
ReplyDeleteI remember the S & H Green Stamps, but most of all the Top Value Yellow Stamps where I grew up in Ohio. I remember my mother getting me a camera with the stamps :)
ReplyDeleteYes. I remember the bowl of water and helping my grandmother stick them in books. What wonderful days and memories of a simpler life.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother worked at the Acme and she was a green stamp fanatic. I kept the count of them all for her.
ReplyDeleteI remember my grandmother collecting these and I think she once got me a doll I wanted with one. Thanks for that memory. My grandmother was one of my best friends and she has been gone for 4years now.
ReplyDeleteI got my first hampster cage with those things...HAHA thats old....
ReplyDeleteSperry & Hutchinson......I used to pump gas in Crisfield back in High School (late 60's) and women would line up around the block on Friday nights to get "double green stamps". Rain or shine....you would think was handing out gold pieces, and they would count them, and give me the devil if they were 1 short.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to be back there !
And when the public felt good...about spending excessively to get a tiny FREE TOKEN....We Fell like Crack Addicts. Brilliant marketing scheme.
ReplyDeletei used several books to get a Cox gas powered airplane, still have the scar on my hand from the cylinder fins, lol
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother passed away a couple years ago and I found several books with stamps that belonged to my grandmother, grandfather, and father. I still have them. They are in pretty good shape too!
ReplyDeleteDo I remember, you got them at the Colonial Grocery Store, now the Goodwill Store and redeemed them at the Green Stamp Store, now Pasco.
ReplyDeleteMy mother must have saved millions of them because she traded them in for furniture! I guess that the stamps came from the grocery store. What did the S & H stand for anyway? I agree,those were the days. I have to admit that the technological age is beginning to wear on me a bit :(
ReplyDeleteMy Dad had Dennis Oil Co and everyone got S&H green stamps with their heating oil purchases as an incentive for paying on time. We were robbed once and the thief took master books from the safe. They caught him when he tried to cash them in. All of them are numbered. Like everyone I remember Mom saving them and shopping at the S & H Green Stamp store.
ReplyDeleteI remember very well that my mother saved hers to buy 2 matching lamps for each side of her sofa. They are in my attic today. I just can't part with them nor do I want them in my living room. LOL They really are nice, just not my style..
ReplyDeleteYour old green stamps can still be used. Go to greenpoints.com
ReplyDeleteOf course it doesn't seem like they go as far as they used to...lol You can still even earn them.
My grandmother Managed it while it was at the building where Pasco is now. It later moved further North. I used to spend so much time in there hanging out at in the Warehouse while she was working.
ReplyDeleteI got my son's stroller and high chair with green stamps, from the Acme store.
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ReplyDeleteThe green stamps reminded me of the 10 cent savings bond stamps we bought each week in elementry school. I still have some of those books and stamps. Guess they aren't any good now though.
JH
I still have some of these. My mom had them in her recipe box--they are still there!
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