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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A very dear family friend was a Fuller Brush Man. He stopped that job after a few years, and when he was an older gentleman, was my Dad’s right hand man as Dad started up his blossoming small business. My grandparents had passed, so our family “adopted” this wonderful man and his wife as our grandparents. I wouldn’t be who I am without his influence.
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When I graduated HS and was about to embark on leaving home for college (on a scholarship), I was penniless and wanted to pay my own way as much as possible. Even though I worked for my father at our family business, money was so tight, so I wasn’t really paid a wage. It all went back in to the business, as dad was trying to make it all work. There was no extra money for frivolity of any kind.
I asked my parents that if I did all the work of licking and gluing the green stamps in the books, would they please allow me to turn them in for things I would need for school? They said okay.
I was able to redeem those blessed S&H green stamps for a twin sheet set, a pillow, a comforter, a hotpot, and an electric frypan. Those all lasted many, many years, and the electric frypan is STILL with me. It’s in perfect shape, and is frequently used, even all these years later.
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In Ohio, they gave out Buckeye trading stamps, which were light brown. I so remember helping to lick and stick those things as a kid and perusing the book to see what we could get for them.
We had S&H Green Stamps and Plaid Stamps - not sure where the Plaid Stamps came from but may have been A&P.
Yeah, I was the stamp licker-sticker......nasty stuff after just a few stamps. Being a future engineer, I found a sponge and wet them with a damp sponge instead of licking them. Never told Mom.
I think I’ve still got some in a booklet somewhere.
Also have a partially-filled U.S. Savings Bond booklet from elementary school a lifetime ago.
I was raised on a dairy farm.
Dad bought chicken feed at the local Co-op & those bags for used for dish towels.
I STILL have a couple & I am now 84.
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