Mom used to have a little yellow plastic cookie jar full of S & H Stamps and the booklets to stick them in.
One day Mom said to us kids our job was to fill all the booklets.
It was fun as my brother and I made a race out of who could fill the most.
Fun, until the glue on the stamps, which wasn’t the tastiest, began being a bit sickening and we went slower and slower as our tongues got coated with the stuff.
Even Kool aid couldn’t get the gunk off our tongues. Although a shot of whiskey would do the trick nowadays.
The look on our faces must have convinced our mother that we done enough for the day and let us go outside or watch TV.
And no, I don’t remember what she redeem the stamps for but I do remember those stamps and the little yellow cookie jar with displeasure!
My mother put a dish of water on the table along with a stack of washcloths. We were to use the dampened washcloths instead of licking the stamps.