Sorry. no.

Navy Exchange for us.

You should have seen the Navy Exchange and AF PX at Pearl Harbor and Hickam… who needed S&H stamps when I was able to buy a ’75 Marantz 2220B receiver on sale for $170… with no sales tax!

Aaah.. the days… the rows of quad reel to reels….. I couldn’t afford them, my dad did…

I digress into my own Private Idaho.

Actually, I can’t think I’ve ever been to an S&H store. What were they like?

Was so enchanted with those stamps! Went with mom and she got a lamp for my night table. She let me pick it out… it had a little square white marble base. I loved it.

Great memory of a day at the redemption store with mom when she was young, beautiful and lucid. Thank you for reminding me

We got them at the minimax food store and at the gas station next to the market. Just married and didn’t have any extra money for anything but food and bills. I used them to get gifts for baby showers and birthdays. They actually had pretty nice stuff.

we strictly saved them for the cash value….i clearly remember it was $2.25 per book

We had S&H and Blue Chip stamps. Mom got all kinds of stuff mostly for the kitchen.

Remember the “store”? you picked out what you wanted, gave the books of stamps to the clerk, and then waited for your thing to come out on a conveyor belt. Always thought the place was a little strange. Didn’t seem real to this kid.

The kids had fun sticking the stamps into the booklets. Life was good when Mom had a bunch of the 10 point stamps, they filled books faster.

Times were so different. Gas was 27¢, and we ran amok until it got dark then sat down as a family to a good home-cooked meal.

I remember those stamps, shopping in the green stamp store and of course jelly jars you could use as water glasses once they were empty-(of course we used them for kool-aid with lots of sugar added!) childhood was so much fun back then…

Here in SoCal we had Green Stamps and Blue Stamps, and we used them all for all kinds of things. What I really remember was us buying a couple of round glass containers with plastic lids, one was labled ‘Cookie Jar’, and the other ‘Cracker Barrel’. We had those for the longest time, but never knew what happened to them. Maybe sold at a garage sale.

I remember buying a TV tray table with green stamps. My mother saved Betty Crocker labels and when I got married, she bought me a set of stainless steel. She got 16 teaspoons, 12 forks, 12 dinner knives, 8 ice tea spoons, a baby set, a junior set, and 5 serving spoons. I still use them.

She also got china at A&P. If you bought a certain amount, you could get a dinner plate. I had 12 of everything they had available (also with roses) given to me by family members for my wedding.

I remember licking the stamps or using a sponge, putting the stamps in the books and counting the books. It was part of our family’s warp and woof of life. Good times. Then came the big day to go to the redemption store. Does it get any better!!

We actually had a store rt next to us that took them. I want to say my mom bought us kids stuff with them, but I don’t remember what it could have been.

Oh my! Mom worked at the S&H Green Shield store and one of our neighbors was the manager there. I read her this highlight and we shared some great memories of friends and saving and spending green stamps. Moms 98 she remembers it well. It made her smile and that makes me happy.

My fraternity (Psi U) at Bowdoin College was painted medium green as a perpetual condition of its funding- a donation from the founder of S + H Green Stamps. It’s still green all these years later. My mom used them when I was growing up- this brings back lots of fond memories.

My ex-wife spent 40 hours community service time pasting S&H green stamps into booklets for the Fla Audobon Society. Yeah, that was weird…

First thing to come to mind was having to issue the S&H competition stamp, Top Value, to customers at a gas station I worked at while going to college. They were yellow

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I grew up in a 4-way stop rural community with a couple of grocery stores. Both had drink machines with RC Cola. The caps had seals under them that could be collected and turned in for cash or Green Stamps. I did the math and the stamps were a better return. I offered to keep the machines full and bottles sorted. All I wanted was the caps out of the box under the opener on the machine. By the end of the summer, I had collected many, many books of green stamps. Mom and I went to the Green Stamp store and bought a car full of stuff. Sporting equipment, chess set, games, and stuff for the house. I gave away some of it. It was a hoot. We figured there was about $500 worth of stuff. I was 11 years old.

I vaguely remember. I guess the kind of equivalent these days might be store bucks when you shop at places like O’Reilly, and of course credit cards using the points for things……as long as you pay it off each montb.

My stamps were from Winn Dixie grocery store. I used them to get delicate Champaign glasses, wine glasses and regular water glasses which I still have, a few that is. Winn Dixie displayed different glasses each week. One cannot find similar ones anywhere now.

Sperry & Hutchinson. Those 4X6 booklets were a central part of shopping. We 10 kids made sure to get them all licked in place, and argued over what to choose out of the catalogue. Like you say, but I also remember getting golf balls and some other sports gear. S&H had a hdqtrs at the junction of Eisenhower Expyway & Interstate 294 just west of Chicago.

50s 60s were real, regardless of what the miserable ones say, and they worked.

Yes, I do! I am 81 and have fond memories of redeeming my books of stamps for many items of cookware.

Yes, I remember.

And I so miss the old days and ways. viscerally.

How about TV dinners? Didnt they have some sort of something in the bottom of each food area? Some picture or design?

I don’t remember them but have seen the Brady Bunch episode about them.

I was just a schoolgirl, I was the designated person in the household to fill the pages! For my efforts I was occasionally allowed to pick something with the leftover stamps – that’s how I got my first traincase.

I remember them, but I was too young to be the one actually using them. We always saved them for my Mom. What she used them for I cannot tell you, but I probably knew at the time. I remember filling out books of them for her.

My maternal grandparents saved all the cereal box stuff and got us kids things that were offered through those programs.

For my offspring and grands I have always saved box top coupons, various UPCs and such for their school fundraisers, many of which I got them into as their fundraiser extraordinaire. UPCs generally pay somewhere around 3 cents each. Everything earned is money the schools don’t have to ask the parents to contribute.

Born in the early 60s I was just a kid in the passenger seat of mom’s car (no child seats or mandatory riding in the back seat then). We’d get back in the car from the store and she’d hand me the green stamps that the cashier would print (out of their special printer). I’d lick them and put them in the book. I’m sure we got appliances or some sort of helpful thing. The most memorable thing about them was the taste of the glue as I was preparing them for book insertion! Blech!!

Green Stamp store was our version of the Magical Kingdom. Mother would not shop anywhere that did not give Green Stamps. Later Blue Chip stamps were a competitor but never as good as Green Stamps. Green Stamps provided many a wedding gift for friends and I still use my Harvest Brown Pyrex casserole set.

Just used my set tonight to store my pretty yummy quinoa -Asian – cranberry salad. That menu item is what did not exist back then. Instead we made tuna casseroles in those Pyrex sets, with a can of Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup. Equally good eating.

Wednesday was double stamp day with a fill up at the Texaco station. The stamps would accumulate and we would lick and stick. I remember stacks of those books would disappear and my mother would gleam with pride over her new American made appliance, glassware, or other household item.

I remember them, but don’t remember what or if my family got with them.

Only a few mind pictures. Selected stores would issue what I recall as “Green Stamps” when a purchase was made. When a “book” or multiple book of stamps was filled, it was as good as fiat dollars.

I’m old enough to remember S&H green stamps. They come from a time in America before fact checkers, and moderators, and group flagging, and tens of millions of Rayy Eppps types all over social media, crossdressing as MAGA.

They come from a time before some guy who portrays himself wearing a tricorn hat comes up with his own nineteen extra rules for free speech. They come from a time when a patriot was a patriot and all patriots were free speech absolutists.

They come from America.

Yes! We put those S&H Green Stamps in the book. My mom would choose an item she wanted to redeem the stamps for and we’s anxiously wait to have enough books to get the item, which was maybe a toaster or some item she would like to have but not buy with cash. Money had to be spent on necessities not wish lists!

Definitely dating myself.

Anyone know when S&H Green Stamp program ended?

My mom gave me her books and between the two of us I got a nice tv and stereo stand that had room for records. Bronze metal and nice looking.

My parents were both children of the Great Depression. Very little ever went to waste. Mom would have multiple books of S&H Green Stamps. Can remember her getting on Dad if he forgot to get green stamps from a purchase he made when she wasn’t with him. Can remember her counting stamps, and how excited she was when she found she had enough stamps for an electric mixer. Up until that time. She used one of the old hand crank wire mixers for everything.

BTW, what did the S & H stand for?

I remember sitting around a table with my mother and my siblings pasting those stamps into books.

S&H Green stamps and Blue Chip stamps.

My mother had a catalog of items you could purchase with them.

I remember my grandma kept these in a designated spot on the kitchen counter when I was little. I was not allowed to “play” with them. $$$ now I get it!

Oh yes!!! I fondly remember green stamps and my Dad taking me with him to exchange a couple of books of stamps… was too young to remember what he got, just loving being with my Dad all by myself 😁 Special memories.

I remember only an electric skillet Mom got with stamps.
I used to earn a quarter for each book of stamps I stuck for rich women while Mom was doing measuring or fittings.
They would bring a grocery sack full of stamps to be put into books.

I drove by an S&H Green Stamps store every day going to trade school.
1981 doesn’t seem that long ago until I do the math!

I remember my mom collecting them. I was too young to know what she got with them though

LOL I never used them…We played with them…Mom would always say…”I thought I had a lot more of these”
Then one day many years later she got a new kitchen table ( the old one was from the S&H green stamps)…and found out where they went…We licked and stuck them to the bottom of the table..
the whole bottom was covered!!!

The A&P had S&H Green Stamps and the Be-Lo Market had Gold Stamps. My toaster, mixer and pot & pans were all bought with stamps. I think I still have a couple of Green Stamp books in a collatable boxes.

I used to go into a store that looked just like the one in your picture with my mom. I must’ve been 8 or 9 years old. I know she got a steam iron and some cookware. I think she even got her sewing machine there.

My best friend and I would pick out patterns for dresses for the school year. Our moms would take us to the fabric store, where we picked out our fabrics, then her mom and my mom sewed us our new dresses for the school year.
We were not rich but we were loved.

I remember them and going to the store for my parents, especially mom, to redeem them.

I also remember the Spiegel, Sears, etc. catalogs and my sisters and I salivating over the Swiss Colony catalog each holiday season. We did not understand why my parents didn’t fork out the money for the little petit fours, Swiss cake roll and other goodies. Now that I’m an adult, I totally get it.

Some other Saturday night, we should talk about what games we played, starting with Red Rover, Red Rover Send “Name of Kid” Over and praying that, if it was you, they didn’t try to clothesline you.

My Mother could stretch a buck for miles and was a huge believer in S&H Green Stamps…

She regularly had us kids at the kitchen table ‘filling the books’….

My most vivid memory is her using ‘the books’ to buy my oldest sister an acoustic guitar at the ‘Green Stamps Store’….

My sister used that guitar to play in the ‘youth choir’ at church for years, and she’s since been playing guitar all over the world as a Missionary Nun for almost 50 years….

Not the same guitar, though 🙃…..

You never know where those great ‘blasts from the past’ will take you….

Thanks for the memory, Sundance….

Born 1956 into a (new) “middle class American” family. Are you kidding me?

I have enjoyed reading all the comments reflecting on a much sweeter time, and it suddenly occurs to me that the majority of the items “purchased” with these stamps were probably Made in America.

Oh yeah…boy do I. Every trip Mom made to the Bayless grocery store in Phoenix (and she took me always to lift the crap).

Then, allllllll of those stamps came out of the DRAWER(TM) after a while and I had this outstanding time wetting them down with the tongue and pasting them in the books. Glue tongue was the best until you just had to give up and go for the wet sponge method.

And, those redemption books looked like swollen yellow cauliflowers when you ended up pasting thousands of stamps in them. You had to bundle them with rubber bands to contain them.

I have no clue what Mom did with the books or when or where she redeemed them. I think there was a redemption store in a mall that no longer exists.

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I was also telling my wife yesterday that the elementary school cafeterias quit selling milk for about a week every time they would do an A-Bomb test up in Nevada and the wind would blow the fallout over in the Utah direction. (before they started do them underground) We were binge watching the Manhattan TV series on Tubi https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3231564/ and she was astonished that they knew nothing about the physiological effects of radiation at the time. Yep. True. We are a better generation for being exposed to hard emitters. Now, what’s Gen M’s and Gen X’s excuse?

Who remembers “tube testers” in the grocery store?

My mom got them from the A&P store. My dad managed a Standard Oil gas station and they also gave out Green Stamps.
I remember the little books mom collected them in. They had adhesive backs and she let me stick them in there.

My whole family collected them and the yellow stamps as well gold bond, i think, we used them for kitchen stuff, always cooking, lots to feed, what a joy those days