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Whatever happened to S&H Green Stamps? Here's the story with vintage photos
AL.Com ^ | 4/25/16 | Kelly Kazek

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: history; rewardsprogram; shgreenstamps
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To: linMcHlp

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.


101 posted on 02/17/2024 6:32:48 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: FamiliarFace

Great story; tx.


102 posted on 02/17/2024 6:36:50 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: DallasBiff; Red Badger

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.


103 posted on 02/17/2024 6:47:11 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: DallasBiff

bump


104 posted on 02/17/2024 8:40:26 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Jeff Chandler

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.


105 posted on 02/17/2024 9:13:24 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: DallasBiff

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.


106 posted on 02/17/2024 10:08:07 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: DallasBiff

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.


107 posted on 02/17/2024 10:12:29 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Chickensoup

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.


108 posted on 02/18/2024 12:28:17 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

Premiums were wonderful. Your r story is amazing.


109 posted on 02/19/2024 4:44:25 AM PST by Chickensoup
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