Fondue - S &H Green Stamps

I also remember the blue chip stamps. I remember going through the catalogues with my mother and sister and pointing out things to get. I also remember licking and sticking the stamps in the books.

Although we got a lot of things I've forgotten I remember when we got parfait glasses and used them to make those jello desserts that separated into three layers.
 

My mother's big purchase was a set of these handpainted TV trays.

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jujube said:
I actually got two fondue pots for wedding presents. One was the obligatory burnt orange and the other one was avocado. I used one once and then it ended up in a garage sale. The other one? OK, I'll admit I regifted it. I think fondue pots made the "wedding circuit" back then.
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@jujube first marriage we were given a burnt orange fondue set and an avocado one too
I never used either and donated them many years later
Now in Australia fondue sets are making a big comeback....go figure :(
 
peramangkelder said:
@jujube first marriage we were given a burnt orange fondue set and an avocado one too
I never used either and donated them many years later
Now in Australia fondue sets are making a big comeback....go figure :(
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I really think everyone got at least one fondue pot as a wedding present and that there were actually only two fondue pots in existence, one burnt orange and one avocado. They were just passed around at weddings and have circumnavigated the globe 153 times. One is currently being used by Megan and Harry in California and the other one is in a vault in the Vatican, awaiting the Second Coming (Chapter 13, Verse 9 of the Book of St. Martha Stewart in the Lost Apocrypha says, "And when He comes, verily I say, He will expect hot fondue". )

That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.
 
Richard Tompkins, returning from a business trip to America and seeing the popularity of Green Stamps, purchased the name Green Shield from a luggage manufacturer and founded Green Shield Trading Stamp Co in 1958, along similar lines to S&H Green Stamps. They were popular during the 1960's and 1970's. Competing trading stamp schemes included Pink Stamps (a UK operation of their US company,) Co-op dividend stamps, Blue Chip and the short-lived UK operation of King Korn but none came close to rivalling Green Shield.

At the height of their success the Middle East wars broke out, causing massive fuel shortages, motorists were more concerned about filling the car's tank than they were about collecting trading stamps. To add to Green Shield woes, their biggest customer, Tesco, pulled the plug. Tompkins, however, always the entrepreneur, decided that the Green Shield showrooms could trade in cash instead of trading stamps and rebranded the stores giving them the name: "Argos."

The ultimate in irony. At the peak of Green Shield's rise, their biggest customer, the supermarket company, Tesco, passed their rival Sainsburys, this caused a furore with the latter. They called the trading stamp companies a plague on the retail trade. How they lambasted both Tesco and Green Shield. And the irony? Sainsburys now own Argos.
 
My fondue set was stainless steel. Not sure how I lucked out.

dobielvr said:
I remember TV trays being so popular at one time...way back.

We got them as a wedding present, and used them often.

Anybody seen them around lately?
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We have two under the stairs. They come out once a year at tax season. DH spreads his receipts on them.
 
jujube said:
I really think everyone got at least one fondue pot as a wedding present and that there were actually only two fondue pots in existence, one burnt orange and one avocado. They were just passed around at weddings and have circumnavigated the globe 153 times. One is currently being used by Megan and Harry in California and the other one is in a vault in the Vatican, awaiting the Second Coming (Chapter 13, Verse 9 of the Book of St. Martha Stewart in the Lost Apocrypha says, "And when He comes, verily I say, He will expect hot fondue". )

That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.
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Love it!
 
Aunt Bea said:
My mother's big purchase was a set of these handpainted TV trays.

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OMG! I forgot about the TV trays. Eating AND watching TV. Well, talk about being part of the NOW generation of the 60s. I remember going to the stamp store to get the trays,- ours weren't hand painted'
And God help you, if you went to the store, and didn't come back with the stamps.
 
jujube said:
I really think everyone got at least one fondue pot as a wedding present and that there were actually only two fondue pots in existence, one burnt orange and one avocado. They were just passed around at weddings and have circumnavigated the globe 153 times. One is currently being used by Megan and Harry in California and the other one is in a vault in the Vatican, awaiting the Second Coming (Chapter 13, Verse 9 of the Book of St. Martha Stewart in the Lost Apocrypha says, "And when He comes, verily I say, He will expect hot fondue". )

That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.
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And yea, verily Martha sayeth, "It is good thing".
 
We lived in Buena Park, Calif I saved both green stamps and blue chip stamps. Our kids were quite young at the time so before Thanksgiving day I would trade the blue chip for the green. Then I could buy books with tickets for the rides at Disneyland. Then we would go on thanksgiving day and never have to wait in lines for the rides. They would have a wonderful day, and then the turkey the next day.
 
I remember my mom collected them.

I remember going with her to the S&H Green Stamp Store to trade them in.

We also used to do fondue occasionally.

Little cubes of meat, boiling oil in the pot. Little skewer forks and various kinds of sauce to dip our cooked meat cubes in.

What a pain in the butt way to have dinner!!!!! :cautious:

But it was something different, I guess.
 

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