remember "green stamps".

[fuzzybuddy]

They were called different things in different areas. When you purchased something you were given stamps, which you pasted in books. Turn the books in and you got some nice prizes. The only problem was you needed to buy $250,000.00 worth of stuff to get that $12 grill tool set. I remember my mom pasting stamps in a thick stamp filled book. They had these boxes with like phone dials, which were the stamp dispensing machines. When the clerk would give you the stamps, they wouldn't come off the machine all that well. Sometimes, you got a half of a stamp "free". You hid them in the folds of the book, so nobody would notice it wasn't a 'full' page. For some strange reason, you always remembered what possessions you had, which came from the stamps thing. 40 years later, yup, I got that with stamps.????

 

[Lewkat]

There were all kinds of stamps and coupons. My mom saved them all. She usually did use the green stamps for something wanted and also some of the plaid stamps. She had tons of Chesterfield coupons, but I don't remember her using those.

 

[Kaila]

Yep, I got some mixing bowls, which I still have and frequently have used, all these years.
And I still enjoy the memory of choosing them, too.
One of my wiser life choices/decisions.
(And so many other things I cannot remember, but that I do. Why? )

 

[Ken N Tx]

S&H.....Plaid Stamps...

 

[applecruncher]

I think Kroger had yellow & red stamps called Top Value.
Green were S&H in this area.
Loved filling the pages of those little stamp books!

 

[hollydolly]

In the UK we had green stamps and at the same time we had Pink stamps ( both owned and distributed by Perry & Hutchinson...today half filled green stamps can still be found somewhere in many people's homes tucked away in a cupboard or drawer , they're worth nothing..but the pink stamps are much more collectable because there was fewer of those world wide...

https://lotus30.com/library/pink-stamps/

 

[jujube]

S&H Greenstamps are now Greenpoints, but the stampbooks are still redeemable for $2 a book. About 20 years ago, I found 50-some-odd books in some stuff of my grandmother's and sent them in for a check.

It was so much fun to go down to the Greenstamp store and redeem your stamps.

Carnation canned milk, if I remember correctly, had a program that you could redeem the labels for items. I remember getting a little red girl's purse with a poodle on the front when I was a kid.

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

My mom saved green and plaid stamps, I remember her getting lawn chairs and a Mickey Mouse Club House stick on set for me. Those chairs lasted forever and when the netting gave out my dad bought new rolls of the stuff and reweaved them.
My family all used evaporated milk in their coffee. Everyone saved the coupon on the back of the can and finally I had enough to get my first camera.