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Location: Michigan | Mr. Ovation just reminded me of how old I am.
This post is rated O.P.== Older Person.
Do you remember some of the things that you or your parents or grandparents traded in their S&H green stamps for.
My parents got kitchen appliances
I got a bowling ball bag ... GWB
WHAT DOES S & H STAND FOR ??? |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Sperry and Hutchinson Company
i remember collecting them i just dont ever remember using them for anything. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ....same time frame: Blue Chip Stamps... |
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Location: Vermont USA | I got my first basketball (Official size and weight)
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | We pasted them into small books, then turned in the books for the items. You could trade in something like 3.5 books for a baseball glove, 10 books for a lawmover, and maybe the same number for something sweet like a new guitar. I remember finding a large BLUE CHIP STAMPS banner behind a bowling alley (that somebody probably stole as a prank and then dumped, possibly my brother since he seemed to know where it was stashed) that we then used asa wall to our garage fort. I remember how upset my mother was after the stamp folks folded up their tents and went home. She was left with a bunch of filled up stamp books. I don't remember ever getting anything worthwhile with stamps, and when you bought something that gave stamps, you had to carry them around in your pockets and if you were out playing in water, they stuck to the inside of your pockets. |
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Location: NJ | We had S&H, but we had "Plaid Stamps" as well (same concept). My OldMan used to smoke Raleigh cigarettes, and they used to have redeem-able coupons tucked into the back of each pack (and a strip of 5 in each carton). Kind of the forerunner to "Marlboro Miles". I got a 3-speed "English Racer" from one or the other . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I remember them, but don't remember getting anything with them. I assume my parents got small items. Groceries for a family of 7 probably translated into a lot of stamps. I remember paying for part of a pool table that my parents got using stamps to reduce the cost, but I think they were Gold something. |
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Location: Houston, Texas | We had both S&H and Plaid stamps down here. I got a great Rawlings first baseman's mit back when I was probably 10 or 12. My mom would throw the stamps in a paper bag and when it filled up my brother and I would glue them into the books. I hated the single point stamps that you had to fill a whole page with. It took us a while to figure out that you needed a wet sponge and of course only after our tongues started sticking to the roof or our mouths. :p :rolleyes: |
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Location: South of most, North of few | "Do you remember some of the things that you or your parents or grandparents traded in their S&H green stamps for."
That was just yesterday....right? |
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| My parents smoked Raleigh cigarettes, and they saved the stamps off those. Anyone remember that? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Yeah, I wished that my parents smoked so we could get that cool stuff from the stamps, as long as they didn't smoke around me. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | If you saved up just a million Raleigh coupons (stamps) you could trade them in for an iron lung!.....(cough) :eek: |
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| Yep used to get-em at the A & P from buying food too. My parents did not smoke. They had an S & H Green Stamps actual by god store with these sparsely filled shelves to show the great prizes you could get with twenty/thirty book fulls!
Kinda like the money I collected from the reeses cups. I actually sent those in from time to time to get......What would you get, I impatiently ask? .... well more reeses cups of course! Yeah those candy bars helped make me the 285lb man I am today!
remember the coffee grinding machines at the end of the counters in those old stores! I always hated the smell of coffee when I was a kid from those smelly machines.
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Location: ranson,wva | after my greatgrand parrents passed,we cleaned out the house to get ready for the sale,in the kitchen cupboard i found 2 old zig zag tobbacco cans full of those damn stamps,my pop's used to tell me stories about them back in simpler times..jason |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Yeah I figured that would pull'em out of the wood work :) I don't remember where we got the stamps, I just remember putting them into the books. Like others, most of our appliances and such came from them, and my first guitar, and I believe we had a store they went to. |
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Location: NJ | I remember collecting the stamps I remember going to the store, I don't remember what we got. |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | I remember the S&H and I can still the Plaid guy with the tartan tammie . We also had Yellow Stamps at one point but we moved around so much as a kid I don't remember where that was.
Anybody remember the old Coke machines with the big aluminum lever? |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Yes, I do remember them-- which dates me, too. We had S & H Green Stamps, the plaid stamps, and Top Value stamps (probably your yellow ones, Willard). Upon reflection, guys, considering how old we are and the era in which we grew up, we should pat ourselves on the back for remembering all of this. We should pat ourselves on the back for remembering anything at ALL!!!
Our parish church, St. Boniface, asked us to save the stamps to get the nuns at the convent across the street a new station wagon. I can't remember if they were S & H or TV stamps, but we DID save enough to get the sisters a station wagon. Must have been a kajillion stamps-- and a lot of sticky tongues. I wanted to get a guitar I saw in the stamp catalog, but my mom said the nuns needed a car worse than I needed a guitar.
I DO remember the old Coke machines with the big aluminum lever. Remember how you had to return the bottles for a deposit? Remember the little wax "pop" bottles that had a little shot of colored sugar water in them? You'd bite the "cap" off and suck it down.
And I remember vacuu-form machines. It was this big clunky thing that looked like a computer from the old Star Trek series with a big plexiglas bubble. You'd put your quarter in and you could watch it make a pink plastic dinosaur for you from a glob of goo. Those were the days! |
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Location: Michigan | Stop it Rick you are going to far back ,,
The next thing you know someone will be talking about the arcade games at the State Fair that you put your token in and tryed to shovel out that really shinny watch that no one could ever win??
How about the Freak Show with the three legged horse ??
The Bearded Lady
The Tattoed Person...AHHHHHHH !!!!!!!
Im going to start looking for a retirement home for myself.. GWB |
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Location: Houston, Texas | A&P grocery stores, yep, that's where we got most of our stamps. Anyone remember Piggly Wiggly grocery stores? Or Fresca soda? My mother used to swear that Coke in the 6 ounce returnable bottles was different and better than that in the cans.
Life moves on, but it was a far better America we lived in, in those days, than now. I still remember returnable milk bottles with the little cardboard stoppers. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | OK
You have touched upon a way of life many years ago. When we moved to California in 1962, and lived for some time in a rented house, green stamps were our saviour, we would save them until we ran out of money for whatever reason, znd cash them in for cash for groceries or gas when we ran out of everything else.
I would credit green stamps with our ability to survive in California. We would run out of money any search the house for the stamps, put them in a book, and Voila!!, instant cash. Not much, but gas and weiners for the kids, one more week of survival in the San Diego paradise.
Green stamps kept us from having to go back to Ohio.
I, and Shirley, remember them well!!
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Location: Omaha, NE | Originally posted by Joyful Noise:
A&P grocery stores When I was a kid, mom would pull my brother and I in our wagon down the street to the A&P. Got Green Stamps there too.
Piggly Wiggly I lived in Green Bay in the late 1980's. We had a Piggly Wiggly. Went there once in a while. Small store. Today, the QT gas station I go to is probably bigger
Or Fresca soda I still get that. Its good stuff.
Life moves on, but it was a far better America we lived in, in those days, than now. Only in our minds. I think it is human nature to believe that we were born into Eden. But if I somehow had the choice, I'd choose to live in 2006 over 1963 any day. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | My memories of running around the street as a pre-teen are fresh and detailed. Remembering something my wife told me last weekend is nearly impossible. |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | We still have Piggly Wigglys in Wisconsin and I think Fresca. |
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| I remember S&H stamps were green, and the King Korn stamps were yellow...we collected both when I was a kid...(before Ovations existed..) |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | My gram, mom, sister and I faithfully booked up volumes of plaid stamps to get-----are you ready for this (drum rolls and bated breath, please)----quilted bed comforters in the most up-to-date colors: Harvest gold, autumn brown, avocado green and tangerine orange. (Trumpets sound, "Ta-Dah!"; cymbals crash.) With matching braided rugs and gold insulated curtains to go with our cream-of-avocado walls. So trendy; so mod; so dated!! (And at a distance of 30+ years, so completely awful.)
--Karen and the teeming masses
Gertrude, Jewel, Blanca, "Nonnie," Ivory, Gilda, Sugar, Plink, Twang, and Shriek |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Harvest Gold? Wasn't that a Neil Young album? No, wait-- he hasn't cut that one yet! Give him a couple of weeks. |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Couldn't you get a Kay guitar with a couple books of S&H? |
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| I actually had a Kay guitar when I was kid...horrible action, but great calouses as a result.. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Jack and Jill stores were somehow related to Piggly Wigglies. Who picked those names? |
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Location: Illinois | I remember them. My folks were all in a dither to get them used up before they closed the S&H redemption center in Bloomington, IL. One of the things they got were two lawn chairs with vinyl tubing for the seat and back. They got some other stuff too, but i can't remember. I think my mom may have gotten some pots and pans prior to that, but nothing big.
The stamps came in different denominations. It took like 50 ones to fill a page or one fifty to fill a page. I thought it was so cool that they ran the books through a sewing machine after we redeemed them to indicate that they'd been redeemed and couldn't be reused. Not a traditional sewing machine by one like they'd use to sew dog food bags closed. I was probably 6 or 7 at the time. |
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Location: Illinois | Fresca! I rememer the green bottles with dimples inthe bottle like a golf ball to simiulate bubbles. I thought that was way cool!
Remember "Yahoo, It's Mountain Dew, It's goo-ood!" and the Hillbilly on the bottle with the cork shooting through the brim of his cap. I think it also said, "It'll tickle your innards!" I find it mildly amuzing that today's kids live and breathe for Hillbilly Pop! I have one of those bottles! I dig it out once in a while to show my kids' friends. What a hoot!
Coke IS better out of a bottle... a glass bottle. Every once in a while you can find the 8 ozers in a store as a promo item. Mmmm Good!
I remember the coke machines with the aluminum handle. Do you remember the one built like a chest freezer. The bottles hung by their necks and you snaked them through a maze to get them to a removal point. Puting the nickles in (2 I think) allowed a flipper to open up as you lifted the bottle free.
When I was in college my room mate and I drank Coke by the 8 pack. We'd stack the empties, in the cardboard case they came in, in the corner of the kitchen of our apartment. (We usually forgot to take them back when grocery shopping) I think we got a dime a piece for them. We'd have them stacked waist high and twice as wide and deep. Then, we'd usually run out of money and cash them in to buy groceries. Ahhhh! those were the days! |
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Location: Chicago | You won't believe this, but I got my first (actually quite decent) acoustic GUITAR by pasting a load of Blue Chip Stamps. My dad was a hard-core immigrant and refused to help me in any way. Guitar=rock=drugs=bum. So I started on this Stella-Like guitar and played it for five years. The next guitar was my 1974 Legend. Still play it every day and at every gig!!! |
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Location: Illinois | If you ever want to confuse a kid, tell them to go to the kitchen gadget drawer and get you a church key! |
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Location: Converse, Texas | Kay... Stella ... all the same! |
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Location: Converse, Texas | In case any of you are interested, S&H Green Stamps and now S&H Green Points.
S&H Green Points |
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DO YOU REMEMBER * S & H * GREEN STAMPS???