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Posted: 6/18/2019 8:34:31 PM EDT

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Cigarettes had them too, of some sort.

https://www.grayflannelsuit.net/ephemera/raleigh_catalog/cigarette-catalog-index.html

Posted: 6/18/2019 8:35:48 PM EDT

[#2]

Got a baseball mitt through Mom's green stamps. Decent mitt too.

Posted: 6/18/2019 8:37:48 PM EDT

[#3]

Yep, my folks redeemed them for all kinds of cool stuff......

Posted: 6/18/2019 8:38:10 PM EDT

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Yes, there were stores you could walk in and redeem them for toasters, blenders, dishes, etc

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Posted: 6/18/2019 8:39:07 PM EDT

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yeah..these were still coming out of the machine at the checkout isle near the FBI shoot in Miami way back when iirc.

Posted: 6/18/2019 8:40:08 PM EDT

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I would have been awful jealous of that airplane. I used to want one of those in the worst way.

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the cox Stearman? blue/yellow....

ETA: nope...the PT-19

Posted: 6/18/2019 8:45:57 PM EDT

[#7]

Flashback . . . . ain't even thought about those. Yeah, I'd help my mom lick 'em and book 'em. Every now and then there'd be something in the S&H catalog we'd redeem them for.

Posted: 6/18/2019 8:55:02 PM EDT

[#8]

I do

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:04:25 PM EDT

[#9]

Yupp I used to help my mom glue them into the books.

You got green stamps for shopping rewards at various stores.

When you filled in books worth of them you could take them to the Green Stamp store and trade them for stuff.

IIRC we got a big 21" box fan ... we didn't have air conditioning when I grew up, or a color TV, or the Internet.

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:07:36 PM EDT

[#10]

I remember there being Marlboro money. My Grandfather had a catalogue with some cool stuff you could get.

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:15:51 PM EDT

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Got a baseball mitt through Mom's green stamps. Decent mitt too.

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Grandma got me one with hers

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:20:33 PM EDT

[#12]

I remember them well. Among other things I got a baseball glove and a socket set. Still have both!.

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:21:35 PM EDT

[#13]

Mom was religious about collecting them. They bought a lot of household items and Christmas presents.
And the banks gave away toasters and cofee pots for opening new accounts.

Anyone else remember these?

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:23:11 PM EDT

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Yep. They had a redemption store near where I lived.

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Me to. In fact I remember getting my first tricycle from one.

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:26:12 PM EDT

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My parents and grandparents collected these like they were gold, but never understood why.

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Each full book was credit to buy something else with the stamps. My folks said they “had” to buy things anyway, so they got credit towards other items. Grandparents, too.

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:27:08 PM EDT

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I am old, remember them as a kid from the 60s.

The local Piggly Wiggly stores had there own version as recent as the past 5 or 10 years before they went out of business.

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:28:20 PM EDT

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They were like Marlboro miles - you traded them in for cool shit.

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:28:25 PM EDT

[#18]

Mom used to get loads of those at the Safeway store. Us kids would sit and fill the books.
We got paid for licking all those stamps by going to the skating rink on Saturday night.

Good times.

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:31:37 PM EDT

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My first thought as well.

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:35:24 PM EDT

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My grandmother's kitchen was wholly equipped with green and yellow stamps. I don't think she paid cash for so much as a spoon. We inherited a lot of it, it's all collector's stuff today. Esp that ear of corn cookware.

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:38:14 PM EDT

[#21]

Yup

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:41:11 PM EDT

[#22]

I remember those. I thought the machine the store clerks used to dispense the stamps was cool as a kid. Big rotary dial thing they stuck a finger in and spun like a rotary phone.

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:42:42 PM EDT

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This

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:43:35 PM EDT

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Behold, the birth of the rewards credit card.

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:50:53 PM EDT

[#25]

Yep. Those and bottles to turn in.

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:53:30 PM EDT

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Yep, I remember those, use to go to the S&H store with my mom.
What memories, I'm really glad I was blessed with growing up in the 60s.

Posted: 6/18/2019 9:58:54 PM EDT

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My parents and grandparents collected these like they were gold, but never understood why.

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I remember those and the yellow top value stamps

Posted: 6/18/2019 10:08:43 PM EDT

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My Strengths of Materials professor in undergrad would put those green stamps on your test if you got an “A”. Never mind we had no idea where to cash those out in 1999.

Mr Painter had been a circus performer at some point in history and we always have problems that involved the “Nerveless Nocks” and sway polls. Interesting fellow for sure. Good times!

Posted: 6/18/2019 10:34:48 PM EDT

[#29]

It hasn't been that many years since they quit green stamps in small town america.
I do remember my grandma being happy as a clam when she got enough stamps for simple tuppware mixing bowls.
That plastic glass Uncle Sigh drinks tea out of on Duck whatever? That is a tuppaware glass likely bought with green stamps back in the day.
My mom did green stamps.
I don't remember there being any store to redeem them.
A display was set up at the front of grocery stores and items displayed on it and a printed flyer provided to entice shoppers.
Items chosen were selected then in 4-6 weeks the item or items came in on the truck.
I was happy sending in upcs for sea horses back then or a real score, a cheap swiss army type knife out of outdoor life magazine.
Hard telling what all that glue did to kids in those days.
Probably spawned the 60s leftist movements and LSD development.

Posted: 6/18/2019 10:38:29 PM EDT

[#30]

I remember going down to the redemption store.

Posted: 6/18/2019 10:42:25 PM EDT

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the cox Stearman? blue/yellow....

ETA: nope...the PT-19

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Apparently they still made those in the 90s, because I had one. Terrible to fly even in the slightest wind.

Posted: 6/18/2019 10:56:57 PM EDT

[#32]

[Heck yes I remember them. I grew up in the 50s and 60s. My mom and her friends all seemed to collect them.

Posted: 6/18/2019 11:45:23 PM EDT

[#33]

We had plaid stamps from A&P

Posted: 6/19/2019 2:37:19 AM EDT

[#34]

My sister has the Redwood picnic table and benches that our mom got with S&H green stamps back in the early sixties. Saving and redeeming stamps was fun because we got stuff that our parents couldn't have afforded any other way.

Posted: 6/19/2019 2:39:12 AM EDT

[#35]

I don't know anyone who ever got anything with those...

Posted: 6/19/2019 6:22:55 AM EDT

[#36]

Remember those and gold strike stamps.

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