Boy, do I remember them along with blue chip stamps. We had both types of stamp books in our house. My mother would get appliances like a toaster, etc. among other small things. When we had major work done on our cars in the ’60s the owner of the gas station would “dial” out of the dispenser tons of either of these stamps. I had fun as a kid licking them and putting them int he books. The glue actually tasted good to me.

Yes…used for ironing board iron, coffee maker, other appliances & $$$ off actual groceries.

I definitely remember them, but don’t recall ever having enough to redeem.

Remember Blue Chip stamps? They seemed more popular the S&H Green.

Mom let me have them and I bought my first set of weights with them. We lived near the Tom Thumb store in Dallas.

Good times.

My mom would get the stamps and stick them in a drawer, I licked all the stamps filled the books and my momma took me down to the S&H green stamp store in Albany Ga and we got a Fondue Pot…I have it to this day and still use it on occasion,

Newhall Ca, late 1979, Saturday night was Blue Chip stamp bowling night. Depending on which color pin showed up in the first couple of spots determined how many stamps you could win for getting a strike. Handed out thousands of stamps running the stamp machine. Our town was basically a Blue Chip stamp kind of place.

I remember them. As a child, I use to take 4 or 5 booklets and make school books out of them for my class that I taught in the neighborhood. I, of course, was the teacher. Those books make me smile. My grandmother used them for goods they offered.

Thanks for bringing back a pleasant memory from my childhood. I remember those stamps, along with the books filled with them, but don’t remember anything specific that my mom redeemed them for. I have to confess… when I opened this thread, I was half expecting it to be another pancake recipe type thread!

Yes, it was my job as the youngest kid to put the stamps we got at the gas station in the books. We had a dedicated ‘stamp sponge’ and all the stamps went into a specific drawer. We had a say in what cool things we’d get, but my mom could overrule us if it was a home necessity. Blankets, cookie jars, all kinds of treasures were brought home. Where they ended up, I don’t know, but they were a big part of my childhood!

I never used them (Mom did!) but I gave out a ton of them as a Grocery Clerk. There also used to be Blue Chip stamps as well. And then they came out with Food Stamps when I joined USAF in 1968.

My first set of luggage. Wd be considered hideous today, but I thought it was pretty wonderful back in the 70s.

Fun fact: My mother went into labor while using Green Stamps to buy stuff for my nursery.

We used S&H Green Stamps for anything we needed during the year or wanted for Christmas. We, the kids, were the keepers of the booklets and placing the stamps!

We also used A&P Plaid stamps. Good old times.

Back in the day, somewhere near 50 years ago, the little corner grocery store in a very small town paid face value $$ for clipped discount coupons, mostly clipped from readers digest. Thank goodness mom And dad had a subscription to RD. Kept me in candy and Baseball trading cards for years. Lol!

My mother and all the other mothers in our neighborhood were avid Green Stamp book fillers; and yes, many small appliances and household knick knacks came from redeeming those filled books.

I remember my mom getting furious when she realized the clerk forgot to put her green stamps in the bag. Also, there was a joke circulating at the time about the Russians were going to conquer America by poisoning the glue on the green stamps.

Yes, I remember them and was telling my grandkids about them. I used them for small kitchen applicances, glassware, bathroom items. I was a young wife with a child. I purchased many items with the stamps. My mother saved them, so I was aware of their importance. Also, some toys for my children were redeemed. It was a routine affair to sit at the kitchen table and glue the stamps into the books. Amazing how simple those pleasures in life were at the time. Wonderful memories. Thank you!

I remember them from the early 60’s and shopping with my mother for mostly kitchen stuff and ‘accessories’ for the rooms. The store was huge, much bigger than any grocery store we shopped at, closer to the size of a department store like Woolworths.

I can’t remember the details but will bet some of the family ‘stuff’ I still have came from Green and Blue.

I’m already part of the alternative economy that uses barter/trade for elements of commerce. The hard part has been getting away from the mental conversion to dollars since that has historically been the go-to for value. Can an old dog learn new tricks? IDK, it’s a process.

I remember spending Saturday mornings helping my dad paste the Green Stamps into the booklets, then the whole family would get into the car and drive to the nearest Green Stamp store and redeem the booklets. Simple household items. Happy memories.

Oh, yeah! Mom put us to work pasting the stamps into the books.

What was – can’t choose the right word; fun? challenging? tedious? – when you got a partial page-worth of stamps. Sometimes you would get say, 2 full pages and 3 stamps. Nobody turned down the 3 or 7 or 8 stamps that they were owed on the purchase.

But for a 5 or 6-year-old kid, getting all those onesies and twosies all on one page often produced some interesting results.

I can’t recall us kids having much of a say in what the stamps were redeemed for or I’d remember something that was for just us kids. Mostly mom used the stamps to fill in her kitchen accoutrements. Ah! I do remember a nice (fake) bone-handled carving set and some (fake) bone-handled steak knives. They were actually pretty cool.

I remember my brothers and I took the “We Give S&H Stamps” sign from one of our local grocery store’s parking lot and put it on the front lawn of the home of the a well known single lady of the night named Moana in our neighborhood. (She was a good sport and returned it.)

I,m so old I remember ration books. Still have one for sugar but it’s used up. Still have old poster about using dead trees for firewood from WWII

Oh yes I loved them when
My mother would bring them home

Yes I remember them well.. Mom let me lick the stamps .. I also have a set of 8 tumblers from the “Duz” boxes

I’m looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.

Mike Rowe

My mom used them to collect her favorite dish ware, Desert Rose.

Mom redeemed her stamps for a set of blue luggage with a label like American Traveller which was supposed to confuse you with American Tourister
Mom briefly hired a cleaning lady who stole the remaining books along with many pillowcases.

I remember my mom collecting them and buying a set of Blue Willow dishes. My grandma bought a set of china with them with a single pink rose.

Memories! We used green stamps to purchase a folding card table and matching butt-ugly chairs with brown, tan and yellow plaid foam-cushioned seats, and any number of avacado green kitchen appliances. I think we also had some stamps called black gold. They had little oil well dereks on them. We lived in Houston,Texas at the time, and as a kid, I loved putting them into the stamp books. IIR, I think we got the black gold stamps from one of the gas stations every time we filled up. That card table was well used for my parent’s bridge club events, and lasted a good 40 years. I think we gave them away when cleaning up my parent’s estate after their passing.

Yes, I remember S&H Green stamps. As a kid, I just like licking and pasting them into the booklets. Then we go to the Green Stamp store and pick out a new toaster or something that we wouldn’t necessarily need.

How I miss the good ol’ days. Drive in to get gas, there was only full-service. The attendents would check my oil, check my tires, wipe all my windshields and lights…all while waiting for my fill up, and for free.

All us neighborhood kids would play kick-the-can until midnight on weekends. Never on a school night. It was so much fun.

If someone called on the phone, and I wasn’t at home, well, they would just have to call back. There was no answering machine so I would not even know they had called. Peaceful.

My parents moved to rural Texas in 1984. Believe it or not, they only could get a party-line phone. That wasn’t that long ago. Look at us now. A phone in every hand.

I miss those S &H Green Stamp days.

I remember pasting them into the books and going to the S&H store with my mom.

Later, as a cashier at an Acme grocery store when I was in college in the late 70’s and gave them out to customers.

Here’s another lost art. Ringing up items and making change without scanners and electronic cash registers.

I have a two shelf maple bookcase I bought with I don’t know-how many books of Green stamps. It has been in my life for over 50 years….longer than any of my ex-husbands. Now that’s quality I can depend on!

Definitely remember them and filling up the books.
Don’t really remember what we purchased with them though.
It just reminds me how radically the world has changed since then.
People are VERY different now.

Where I grew up in the NY suburbs during the 1950s I remember we got Blue and Green stamps that I remember licking and pasting into the little booklets.

My mom redeemed them for small appliances as I recall like toasters, an iron, a mixer, etc.

I still have about 20 books of them filled. I used to buy tools, both for the hubby and myself, with them. Sure do miss them!

Wow,talk about bring back some great memories. Boy do I miss those days now.

I remember both sides of that game. I was a checker/sacker/and stocker at Furrs, Odessa,Texas in 71. They updated the stamp dispenser.. Spin the dial,like on a phone, stamps flew out.. The Redemption Center was on eighth Street I think..
Now, the banks don’t even give us toasters when we open up a savings account.

I remember as a child going with my single mom
into a green stamps store. One time I spied a beautiful doll on the top shelf (where they kept expensive merchandise) and I was heartbroken when she couldn’t buy it for me. I remember crying on the way home.

Some time later I was shocked to find that doll sitting under the Christmas tree! But I felt guilty. I knew my mom could not afford the purchase, and I felt ashamed for making such a fuss over it.

I think it was “Mike in a Truck” who mentioned S & H Green stamps in his post yesterday. Back in the day my mother and Grandmother both smoked Raleigh cigarettes. In each package in the back was a B & W coupon. My mother got the catalog every year and we kids got to pick out a “family gift” every year. One year was a camera, another year was an ice cream maker. We looked forward to sitting down and deciding as a family what we wanted/needed the most.

Boy Scout camping trips…we camped once a month, no matter the weather. There were three of us boys and we got to use the blue chip stamps to buy (or redeem for) extra food for our trips.

My aunt started working in the S&H Green Stamp store and worked up to manager. We had many, many things from the store and it was all very high quality i.e. Sunbeam products, GE, Westinghouse, Kitchen-aid and more. I still have two brass lamps in the living room, an Oster blender and a couple Elgin American compacts. The store was neat, well displayed and had good merchandise; no clothing in my local store, no tools, no hardware. Because most of the women at the neighborhood hair dresser’s shop knew my aunt worked at S&H they would give my grandmother stamps they didn’t intend to use. JACKPOT!

My Mom and Grandmother both did the stamps. All us kids loved filling those books. My Grandmother gradually got a whole set of dishes with them and my Granddaughter has them today. I love those dishes.

My grandmother collected them. I remember her getting a hand mixer that made the best whipped cream 😊

Sundance are u trying to calm us down with this remembrance of past good times(for us old folks)? Well yes I think remembrances of good times overcomes bad current times.

My sister and I drooled over the catalogue. There was no way my parents could use those stamps for anything other than necessities (four kids and a grandmom), so we drew, colored and cut out our own version of the stamps. Then we made pretend purchases.

My Mom was a seamstress. She was quite angry when she realized we had borrowed her good pair of pinking shears, to get the pretend stamp edges just right:)

Count me amongst the yellow Top Value stamp savers. I remember my mother intelligently figured out that the best deal with the TV stamps was to simply use them to buy groceries at the same places that gave them out. Easiest, too!

OMG! there they are . . . tv try tables with floral design, gold filigree border on white ground and that sculpted edge. I remember them well along with the spaghetti meals had while watching the Philco b&w tv. And then there was the red and chrome Murray bicycle bought with ‘greenstamps’ as we called them. Life was good. It all changed on that fateful November 22 day in 1963. Life in America became darker after that. This 11 year old knew we were being lied to. S&H Green Stamps lingered awhile longer, a vestige of those better times, before finally fading away. Post War feel good America had forever changed.

my Grandmother bought a complete set of china with the stamps, gray roses and silver trimmed , I still use this china.

My mother collected them and gave them to us when we were decorating the nursery for our first baby. The store looked just like you have pictured and it was quite a savings for newlyweds. Thanks Mom.

Sundance, how old are you? I’m 65.