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I also have a Shrade-Walden fixed blade knife my mother got with S&H green stamps got it for Christmas close to 60 years ago.
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We got a hen on the nest glass candy dish for church mints Grandma's always 1 that had that glued together ribbon candy. The other was butterscotch or the little hard cinnamon candy.
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Haven’t seen a Green Stamp in years
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We would steal the mirror stand type sign that had “We Give Green Stamps” and put it out in front of Wells Funeral Home. We were a rowdy bunch. One time we found a “Try Our Layaway Plan” at Sears and relocated it to the funeral home.
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#10 pipe rack and tabaco jar would look real nice on the coffee table next to my reclyner chair. 150 books for the 17” Admiral Color TV Shewwwww dayum
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#10 pipe rack and tabaco jar would look real nice on the coffee table next to my reclyner chair. 150 books for the 17” Admiral Color TV Shewwwww dayum I'll hold out for a Curtis-Mathes
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I remember in the 60s my sisters and I going with mama into town so she could cash in the green stamps at the green stamp store. Us kids would stay in the car alone, yell and wave at people riding by.
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I remember in the 60s my sisters and I going with mama into town so she could cash in the green stamps at the green stamp store. Us kids would stay in the car alone, yell and wave at people riding by. Did you ever get sick from trying to eat a warm bag of old candy while waiting in the car? Hershey squirts???
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Gunn Brothers stamps in our neck of the woods.
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My mom use to save them all the time. We would go to the store about once a year and she would get something for the house.
Seems like there was another type/brand of stamp as well but I can't remember what it was.
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I still have the metal Green Stamp sign that hung outside of dads gas station.
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When I was a teenager pumping gas circa 1967-68 at the local Atlantic station we gave out S&H Green Stamps. Some of our customers were die-hard Green Stamp fans. They would give you cash for the purchase and say "don't forget my Green Stamps". Now that I think of this topic I realize that most of those folks were old enough to have been through the Great Depression and had that scrimping and saving ethic well ingrained into their head. Which is something more folks today should have.
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My mom use to save them all the time. We would go to the store about once a year and she would get something for the house.
Seems like there was another type/brand of stamp as well but I can't remember what it was. Triple S Blue Stamps, I think.
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[quote=pullit]My mom use to save them all the time. We would go to the store about once a year and she would get something for the house.
Seems like there was another type/brand of stamp as well but I can't remember what it was. The other stamps https://northeastnews.net/pages/remember-this-trading-stamps/
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Thanks for that link. I had forgotten all about top value stamps. My mother got those at the local supermarket and saved them while I was handing out S&H Green Stamps at the local gas station. There was one of those redemption stores not too far away that served our entire area but I can't recall what stamps they accepted.
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In the early 60's, the S&H catalog was the largest single publication in the US, larger than the major catalogs like Sears or Monkey Ward.
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B&W cigarette coupons is where it's at. So Marlboro Miles aren't cool anymore? I'm not up on all of the new-fangled stuff!
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