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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My Mom collected the Top Value Stamps. She didn't like S&H. I think the big reason was there was a Top Value store less than two miles from our house while the S&H Green Stamp store was on the other side of town.
The thing I remember was she bought me one of those 3' tall Monogram Saturn V rocket kits not long before the Apollo 11 mission. I built that kit and then followed the mission by taking the stages off and leaving what was left while the mission happened.
LOL!! I think all mothers used their kids to lick and stick the stamps. Mine did too.
To this day my tongue is still stuck to the roof of my mouth from those things.
I believe the S&H stamps were the launching pad of Carlson Companies in MN. Could be mistaken.
Anyone remember Gold Bond stamps? They were just like the S&H racket.
ROFL!! And us kids thought it was cool to do it.
That will be just in California. Everything causes cancer there.
Interesting. Pretty much coincides with Warren Buffet’s massive investment in Blue Chip stamps. I only lived in California for two years (1981-83) so don’t know if S&H declined when Buffet decided to promoted Blue Chip or not. Your thoughts?
Yep; and S & H
Fuller Brush Man
We had a similar guy in Rural Mississippi, called ‘Standard Coffee’, sold various cleaning chemicals, coffee, kitchen gadgets and candy out of a Ford Econoline van......................
That kind of work was a good gig, if you could create a travel circuit that worked for you.
One day, a guy showed up with Ice Cream. Just happened to be perfect time and place - whole neighborhood bought and kept buying.
Another guy, Potato Chips. This fellow drove out in an arc around the fringes of his contemporaries’ travels. Just happened to be the right place, at the right time. Really big cans of potato chips.
Maybe 1 tinsmith in the mid-1950’s. Milkman (milk, butter, eggs into the mid-1960’s). Diapers (booming business; and then nothing, circa 1959 - “thanks to” Proctor * Gamble). And of course, the Fuller Brush Man (really good brushes, not “Made in Japan”).
I dimly recall S&H Green Stamps disappearing sometime in the early’70s and Blue Chip Stamps taking over around the same time. I usually got mine when I filled up at a gas station and occasionally at a market.
Charles Chips.........................
That might have been the Co.; tx.
Watkins sold extracts and spices, and various household items. The movie made in 2002 about Bill Porter was called Door to Door.
I haven’t seen any door-to-door salesmen of anything for a long time now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Chips
I remember them along with Gun Bro’s Stamps. With Green Stamps mom got us boys a knife-axe kit each! lots of later items too! Then suddenly Green Stamp stores were gone.
The only people who have shown up at my apartment door are Jehovah Witness followers, and sales people from alternative gas and electric companies. Thankfully those have petered out. When they did show up, I never even opened the door to them, and simply said "Not interested," before they'd could start their spiel.
I don’t think door-to-door salesmen would do very well around here. Too far between houses, and most people aren’t very keen on uninvited visitors. Jehovah’s Witnesses can show up anywhere (got some once at a BLM station that was almost the only habitation on a 55-mile stretch of highway), but they haven’t come to my door yet.
In Gatortown, we called it Choose-N-Lose.
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