Posted on 02/17/2024 11:59:52 AM PST by DallasBiff
Do you remember when a trip to Grandma's meant going through her drawer filled with S&H Green Stamps so you could lick 'em and stick 'em into those little booklets? Green Stamps were offered in certain regions beginning in 1896 but they were most widely distributed in the U.S. from the 1930s to the 1980s, with a peak in the 1960s and '70s.
Did you know you can still redeem any you might find lying around? Yep. S&H is still in business, only altered for a digital world. Read on to learn how to redeem them
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Wonder how many books of stamps one would need to get the latest smartphone, LOL.
A lot of white folks in the advertisements and videos! :O
The S+H stands for Sperry and Hutchinson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sperry_Beinecke
I knew some of the family.
We used to have a S&H Green Stamp redemption Center in Jacksonville, FL at Gateway Shopping Center...........
My mother borrowed my tongue to glue them onto the pages of the books, I can still taste it.
[Whatever happened to S&H Green Stamps? ]
The Bradys, being the first family to ever collect enough booklets to redeem, bankrupted the company with their unexpected purchase.
Yep, my mom kept those along with Raleigh cigarette coupons. My dad supplied a ton of those.
IIRC, it took 20,000 books to get a car, circa 1970 or therabouts.................
Yep. We were the clear majority population then. A different world, a million light years in the past.
Anybody remember Top Value Stamps?..................
My mother saved Green Stamps and would redeem them once in a while, but I don’t remember what kind of stuff she got with them.
My mom would get her’s at the A&P grocery store......Atlantic blvd. at St. John’s bluff road.
That store was little more than a dimly lit warehouse with cash registers.......personally speaking, if I never see another s&h green stamp again it’ll be too soon! Lol!
I remember in the 70s when our grocery store in upstate NY announced it was no longer giving out S&H green stamps. The store then announced a “storewide reduction in prices.” Some people were shocked to learn the stamps weren’t “free.”
Ha!
Mom bought some nice items with her S&H Green stamps, then later her Blue Chip stamps.
Thank you, I knew S&H had a rival, but couldn’t remember their name, Top Value, but I remembered they were yellow trading stamps.
In our area there were Green Stamps and there were Plaid Stamps.
Got a set of key roller skates
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