Here’s a fun blast from the past. Yesterday, someone mentioned S&H Green Shield stamps and the stuff we used to purchase with them.
Today, I was having a conversation about communicating old school with a person, and about how the generation soon to come will find new methods to avoid the censors and monitors. I mentioned the Green Shield stamp reminder and we had a blast reminiscing about all the stuff we used them for.
I think just about every small appliance and cookware for my very first apartment was the result of using S&H Greenshield stamps.
So the conversation expands…. Date yourself. How many of you remember them, and what did you use them for?
I remember S&H green stamps and how Mom would fill up the booklets. She’s get all kinds of stuff. She was very careful with money. As groceries were unpacked, she wold cross off the item while checking the price on the sales receipt. There was also a dish washing brand that allowed you to get dishes. I forget the brand. Another product, jelly containers were used for glasses and also Penn Maid sour cream glass was used for glasses later. Those were much better times.
We had a few of those “jelly jar glasses” when I was a kid. I don’t recall the brand either, but I remember the Archie comics being on them.
Smuckers i think.
We had jelly jars for glasses as well, Ned. Thanks for the reminder!
I remember licking the stamps for my mother and filling up the books. I know she got those dishes! Lol.
One of my Great-Grandmothers always had a small glass of wine every day – she wanted it in one of those little jelly glasses, she said it was the perfect size.
Our ‘Jelly glasses’ had flying pheasants on them…… Mom had us licking the Green Stamps and putting them in the booklets. Fun times, ca. 1952 or so.
Jelly jar glasses were Welches, I still have one I use with the Tom & Jerry cartoon characters on it.
We got dishes from DUZ powdered laundry detergent. White, trimmed with gold and gold sheaves of wheat in the middle. I remember the patterned jelly jar/glasses and books of those Green stamps but I don’t remember what Mom got with them.
Do you remember Dolly Pardon in the Breeze laundry commercials? My Grandma’s towels were the freebees that came with a box of Breeze.
After each airing of The Grand Ole Opry, Dolly would pitch Breeze laundry soap, while holding one of the “lovely” bath towels that came with each box.
I still see those types of plates in thrift stores & at yard sales.
I’ve got a couple shallow bowls & a salad size plate with the gold wheat pattern.
They can only be found one & two pieces at a time.
Great memory!
Ha! I was 8 or 9 when I found out that normal drinking glasses did not have ridges on them! Those were the days of genuine recycling. We turned in our coke bottles, in the original cardboard carrier for the few cents off the next six pack. Milk bottles returned too. The metal razor blades my dad used in his razor were put in a slot in the back of the medicine cabinet – never to be seen again. Groceries came in paper bags that we used to line the trash can and cover our school books to protect them.
All those razor blades just disappeared between the studs. Wonder what the newer generation thought as they remodeled or razed those older homes?
A little history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26H_Green_Stamps
I have many memories of these stamps. Of note is a GE hand mixer my mom purchased with green stamps. That was almost 60 years ago. My mom is long gone but Istill have the mixer and the darn thing still works perfectly.
I remember how magical the Green stamp store seemed to me.
We would go there when Mom and Grandma had saved up enough books of stamps to get what ever it was they were hoping for, they had a catalogue that would give the item and how many books needed to “purchase” it.
We never ever bought things for ourselves unless it was a birthday or Christmas or something that was just very badly needed.
So going to the stamp store and coming home with the small appliances my Mom choose was a very special occasion for us.
I can’t remember everything she choose but they were almost always small kitchen appliances.
And like you Niagara F I have a small hand mixer (also GE) from the Green Stamp Store.
And yes, mine still works perfectly too, amazing.
That photo Sundance included in his article looks a lot like the Stamp Store we visited when I was a kid.
My dear Mother kept up on her S&H’s, and I used to wonder over it, being too young to yet have a concept of money, income, cost, and how new things came to be in our household. The books were kept in a small top drawer between the stove and refrigerator, and I was fascinated, but clueless Every now and then, however, the nicest things would appear in the kitchen, which she would turn into magical food for dinner.
I remember saving box tops from cereal boxes, and mailing them in to win my first BB gun. It never arrived. My next heartbreak was the backyard mini-nuclear missile firing submarine that never showed up either.
You have any older brothers?
Yes, boogy, 2
I think I know where your BB gun and submarine went?
So you’re the one!! Hope you didn’t leave that sub out in the rain…
Somewhere along Montreal south of Lavista?
I lent it to some weirdo named Stockton or some such name?
In 1978 I had the job of closing a 7000 sq ft old school grocery store. I was warned to warch the green stamp vendor as they were famous for not giving credit for unused stamps – they were basically same as cash. Sure enough they tried to undercount the rolls of returned stamps. Most grocery shrink goes out the backdoor.
I remember my brothers and me collecting them and adding them to the booklet, however, I don’t remember what my parents actually bought with them. But we were definitely in charge of attaching all of them to the books…
My local area … Sacramento, CA at the time … found Blue Chip Stamps were more popular. We collected both and as a kid, I was excited to paste them into our books. But for the life of me, I can’t remember actually redeeming them … although I have a vague memory of purchasing an electric ice cream maker with the books. Then making really HARD ice cream at home … bummer. But it did taste good … just not the store bought texture. We must have missed some emulsifiers or something …
We had one of those too – must have been those mysterious S&H’s. I have turned a crank on the front porch many times, for many hours, just for that one taste. Peach, from the trees in our yard. Unforgettable.
S&H green stamps brought us our hand crank ice cream maker too. Daddy would put a thick layer of newspaper on top of the upper mechanism and ice then have one of us kids sit on it. That helped keep the top from trying to “buck” out of place.
I was just about to post the same thing. Daddy would put newspapers on our hand crank ice cream maker and my job was to sit on it. When the ice cream got frozen those things needed weight or it would flop around… what good memories…😋
Majority-owned by Berkshire Hathaway!
Along with S&H green stamps we also collected Plaid stamps from a different grocery chain. I remember licking the stamps to fill the pages. Mom usually chose a new kitchen item to help make cooking for eight easier.
It took forever to get enough of those green stamp books to buy stuff.
I remember and
wish I could go back to that time again.🥹
A visit to the past. Ep 15
I was very young but remember the stamps. I don’t remember the items obtained by redeeming them except my mother told me much later that her entire fine china set that I grew up on was purchased via stamps.
I certainly do remember Green Stamps. I remember wetting them with a sponge and sticking them in the books for my Mom. I remember going to the San Jose Civic Auditorium and helping my Dad do the ticket taking for the pro-wrestling as part of a Kiwanis fundraising thing (I think).
That California of the 60s and 70s was heaven. Parts of still are. The two houses I grew up in are unaffordable now. The three bedroom starter home is listed on Trulia at $2.2 million ($13k per month mortgage). The four bedroom home that we moved to (on a golf course) is listed at $2.5 million ($16k per month mortgage).
My Mom and Dad were Depression Era and then WWII kids. They both were…very careful with money (to put it lovingly). My Dad had an upper-middle class type job (and income), but I don’t remember ever going out to a restaurant with my parents until after my brother and I were both out of the house on our own and 1) we had our own money, 2) my mother started working outside the home (which she never did until we were out of the house) and 3) my parents had extra money from my Mom’s second income and their no longer having to support their boys.
Smart and excellent parents. Loving parents. Excellent examples. I don’t think I measure up to their standard, but I still try.
I grew up in the rose Garden neighborhood and loved the wonderful world there of community, security and freedom.
Those were the generation that were used to hardship, and then fought WWII, and thought they had only done their duty.
They were thrilled to be able to buy a 3BR, 1 BA house with 50% down, and the rest paid off in 5-10 years.
Grateful to have 2% fed tax, a nice life with one earner, safe schools, and Sunday church.
And Green Stamps. .
You were truly blessed to have grown up in “privilege”. My own two parents were a mess, divorce, remarriages, and then when I was 10 yo … my mother went to court to relinquish parental rights to my brother and I … because her older new husband didn’t want to raise kids again. So we were sent to my very wealthy, classy, grandmothers house (where my 42 yo father lived) . Her nice sprawling ranch house on a creek in Lafayette, CA is valued at $4.5m today. Too bad she sold it to Bobby Murcer, who had just been traded from the Yankees to the Giants in 1970 … before Prop 13 … for $100k. Worst financial faux pas in my family history. My father remarried to an alcoholic pediatrician… that marriage lasted 6 mos. And my life really came apart after that. When I say my life … I mean my parents lives … my brother and I somehow managed to remain quality kids. Good students, no habitual drug use despite an absolutely horrific upbringing.
I had steely determination to NEVER bring up my own kids like that. Hence, my kids lived at only one address in my hometown for their entire upbringing. We NEVER moved. Never divorced … and gave our kids a “privileged” upbringing … which sounded like yours. And my kids are doing very, very, well … HUGE salaries … but still cannot afford a house in Silicon Valley, or Orange County where they live.
All I ever wanted as a kid was to have a stable, intact, two parent (heterosexual) family. I never got it, but gave it to my kids instead. Every kid deserves that kind of “privilege”.
I had parents similar to yours. They each were married 4 times. I think they initially split up because they thought they could do more damage that way. All of my step parents were great people. All of them. I used to wish my step mother would marry my step father and take us kids with them.
I had the same dreams for my own children as you did. Nice sentiments!
Some of my FIRST memories as a kindergartner in Sacramento, CA … was getting our robes on over our pajamas and piling into our bullet-nose Studebaker Champion to go driving with our mother at midnight … searching the bars for our father. Yeah … that really happened … and it was a regular occurrence. She knew all his regular haunts.
http://www.dyna.co.za/cars/Studebaker_50_Bullet_Nose_Champion_Green_fs22.jpg
When Vivek was talking to Tucker, he said, “I was privileged bc I had a mom & a dad, love in my home, a focus on education & faith in God.
He said, “that is the true definition of privilege.”
That was yesterday.
I noted … intently … that PDJT had no derisive nickname for Vivek in the speech yesterday … and suggested he would soon move into second place. PDJT knows instinctively that we MAGA crowd have been listening to Vivek’s consistently positive, smart, rhetoric. And when Vivek told Tucker that all humans have a God-shaped vacuum in their hearts … I sat up and took notice. No, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to see Vivek on a ticket with Trump … or at least in his Cabinet
People here will come unglued at the suggestion of an American who’s parents were born elsewhere getting near the White House. We must hold the sins of the parents against an American child. It’s the only right thing to do.
Agree 💯.
My Mom would save S&H stamps for months to get something or other. I used to love being the stamp licker! I’d lick the stamps and paste them into the books. I also remember a few times when I nearly ODed on licking stamps…. the glue was on them thick and didn’t taste good but I took it as a challenge….I guess.
I also recall glassware and dishtowels that would come in boxes of laundry detergent. Flour bags were also saved and used and don’t forget the stainless flatware that came in laundry detergent as well. We used them all and felt good about doing so.
I forgot to remember all these things, thanks.
Is Sundance giving us a ,DEMENTIA test ????🤪
Or is he doing a survey of his readers… LoL.
First set of fine dinnerware shortly after we got married. Butter-yellow Melamine six-place setting. Later added a set of drinking glasses.
Down the road, an avocado green stand mixer.
Sorry. My memory card just ran out.
Good times.
I think I still have some, somewhere! And I can’t even remember how I used them, except I know it was for something practical.
Ours was a family of 8 and my mother bought lots and lots of groceries. So along with those very long receipts came rolls and rolls of S&H Green stamps. I helped Mother paste all those stamps into the books. We then poured over the stamp catalogue making decisions on what to redeem the stamps for next. Baseball bats, leather baseballs & mitts, basketballs, and footballs for my brothers, a stand mixer and record player for Mother, and I got a wind-up metronome in a beautiful wooden case. I still have it & use it when playing my piano to this very day.
Sundance, thank you for this article and the waltz down memory lane of much better times.
I too had one of those metronomes.
I got one of those metronomes sitting on my bookcase. I use it when practicing on my drum set.
It sure did help with my piano lessons and practicing. Mine still works great–wind it up and it ticks out the perfect beat fast or slow.
I remember drawers full of sheets of green stamps, licking and sticking them, and a store where my mom got a toaster or something. However, my mom died n 1971 so the stamp collecting stopped. It’s funny when this post came up I immediately wanted to call my sister so we could laugh about collecting stamps. Just for a split second…….because she died three years ago. It didn’t make me sad, just a reminder how life goes on.
I remember my mom collecting the green stamps and filling the books with them. I believe there were also S&H stores where they could be redeemed. Seem like there were a “plaid”stamp that came out also.
I remember Mom saving them when I was a kid but I don’t remember anything specific they got redeemed for.
Most of the stamps were redeemed for kitchen items as it was the moms that saved the stamps. And don’t forget Gold Bond stamps.
My year of birth also. I remember mom using a sponge to wet the back of stamps!
This made me laugh because it was my job to put the stamps in the books. Being INTJ problem solver, even as a kid I figured out the best way to do the job was wetting a wash cloth and applying it to the back and then carefully positioning them on the grid. I guess we are what we are from the beginning! 🙂
My grandmother and mother, as did I after I got married, collected S & H green stamps. I helped put the stamps in the booklets by wetting a wash cloth, too. I don’t remember what they got with them or where we redeemed them. But my grandmother had a duck lamp like the one in the picture. We lived in Stamps, AR, which is about 30 minutes from Texarkana.
My dad had a sunoco gas station in the philadelphia suburbs. He gave out green stamps.. the company had a national competitive scholarship for the merchants’children. I won and received $300.00 a year for 4 years of college. That was a big deal in 1972!!
My UC Berkeley quarterly tuition in 1978 was something like $375 … so yeah … a $300 scholarship wasn’t chump change.
My parents used these stamps for years and years. In 1968, when I was in high school, my mother redeemed some of these stamps for a desk top study lamp which I later took with me when I left home for college. Thirty years later, my children were using it every day until the on/off switch failed in about 1998.
Loved Green Stamps. I would fill the booklets from my mothers weekly grocery shopping. We had a large family of seven people, so the books filled quickly. My mother “bought” an incredible console stereo, it was a beautiful piece of furniture and always in Her home til she passed away. My brother now has it in His home – works beautifully. My other brother has Her coffee and end tables. All of this was 60’s provencial style , but now is quite hip & chic.
Snoopy lamp
In the same vein as S&H Green Stamps, does anybody here remember Best Products, the discount catalog showroom retailer with the kooky building designs?
here’s a great documentary:
I ran Electronics and Sporting Goods for the Best Products in Austin, TX. We had the smallest showroom in the entire company. I wish that company was still around. We had the best stereos, televisions, calculators, and sporting equipment you could buy anywhere in Austin. We sold the TI 99/4A home computer and all the components, along with all the Atari and Intellivision games and cartridges. I had a blast working there.
I recall that they had the cheapest Sony products in the entire United States, at a time when nobody gave discounts on Sony.
I must be slightly older than you as I remember going to WHITE FRONT stores long before BEST products … I suspect they adopted the over the top vibe of the old WHITE FRONT stores.
i bought my very FIRST lp at WHITE FRONT stores … The Dave Clark V Greatest Hits … Catch Us if You Can, Glad all Over
catchy name!
😉 👌
Yeah … ya couldn’t get away with that today, eh? Hint: I believe the name had more to do with cleanliness … not the KKkay
Yeah, I think I payed about $2.77
I remember when those guys were considered “radical looking,” and you could get suspended from high school for growing you hair that long.
Bowl cuts for the lot of em!
Thank You Vaporland! I saw one of the buildings in person, somewhere south of Miami. They’re amazing. I wonder how many still exist in the intended state. IMO, we need more of this.
they have all been demolished, with the exception of one in Richmond that had trees growing out of it – it’s now a church
My only comment about those Best Products deconstructed edifices… is that they derived their style from post-modernist architecture … which like all things “post-modern” … sought to TEAR DOWN all the rules of design, function, proportion, and beauty … and put up deconstructed buildings.
Yeah, it was fun and catchy … but … Puhleeze.
Anyone remember the Fuller Brush Man. Made the rounds through the neighborhood s with his sample case.
Then came Charles Chips with all their goodies.
A much better time!
And the Good Humor man!! Our guy had a pedal tricycle, the dry ice in the back container was fun…we’d get little pieces and put them in water and watch the white bubbles… the bell on that tricycle must have been heard for two blocks. Just yesterday we picked up our Ford F250 from some service and the guy had a Good Humor cooler full of ice cream snacks. What a memory.. remember, ‘enough to psss off the Good Humor Man’!! When we heard the bell, we’d beg for nickels to get an ice cream snack!!
The Helms bakery truck came through out little neighborhood in SoCal. Bread, donuts, our stay at home moms sent us out to buy stuff when they passed through our street.
While we are in the *way back* machine, howbout a 7″ black & white TV. First on our block (The Bronx) to get one! :):) circa early 1950s – Howdy Doody – Uncle Milty.
I remember the milkman bringing fresh milk and taking away the empties. My siblings would fight over who got to pour the cream which rose to the top of each bottle onto our breakfast cereal.
Oh! Me too. Thanks for that memory…😊
That was before they homogenized milk. My older sister usually got the cream off the top.
Ah yeah, Charles Chips. I still have one of those cantaners.
I would give anything to have a fuller dust mop. The fuller brush man always stopped by our house…
Yes I do. I also remember the Hoover vacuum cleaner salesman. Imagine being willing to let a strange man into your house to sit through a demo. Different times for sure.
Charles Chips were a treat I enjoyed when I stayed with my aunt & uncle in VA. We didn’t have them in CT….bummer. I loved their BBQ flavored chips.
My grandmother used them. I remember her stacks of books, and helping her paste them in. And looking through the catalogs. It was definitely a cool thing in my book lol.
Mom never did because she shopped at the commissary on base, and if for some reason we got some, we always gave them to Grandma. Thanks for reviving some great memories.
Ah, yes – my Mom and I were just talking about all those great stamps you could redeem for some very nice things: green, blue and even orange stamps (orange stamps from the Pantry grocery stores in the Pasadena, California area) . . . we had a drawer for the stamps and the books in the kitchen plus of course the catalogs.
I think one of my grandmother bought a nice little chord organ that gave us kids lots of enjoyment when we went over to her house.
Suejeanne….was doing my late night check of the “bin”, and I found your lovely and lonely 🙁 comment! It was surrounded by filthy comments, vile progressive hatred, and unwanted ads. Please accept the this warm blanket and cocoa…. 🙁
I have to wonder, if we had had internet and social media in the 50s would the posters, who can be vile anonymously, hiding like cowards behind a screen, be as mean as they are nowadays? I don’t think so. Civility was an expectation when I was a kid but now it is anomalous. 😔
Anonymous “Liking” here is something I’m completely against. It didn’t used to be that way here. I wish they would change it back.
🙂 thank you! mm. good cocoa!
If I recall correctly there were different value of stamps. It took a whole page of lesser value stamps but only one or two per page of the greater value stamps.
It wasn’t this one
But one very similar
Out in CA we had Blue Chip stamps.
Among the things that came into our house by way of the green stamps was one mighty fine blue tricycle.
The tricycle might have come from the King Korn Stamps.
My mom loved double stamp day.
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We used a bunch of them to buy me a large pink furry “cat” ottoman.
I remember them well. We bought a toaster oven and some Pyrex dishes and a vacuum cleaner as I recall. I’m sure there were other things my mother got with green stamps that I didn’t know about.
Funny story- cousins of mine found stacks of green stamp books behind the store one day, probably put out to be either collected or tossed. They made off with the box of filled books and bought everything they thought their mother, father and siblings would ever possibly want for Christmas. They were as I recall about 7 and 10 at the time. On Christmas morning the family was stunned at the pile of presents and when their father found out how this occurred, they had to pack up all the loot, return it to the store, and apologize to the manager for their misdeed. It was the talk of the town, I’m sure all the parents had a good chuckle over it.
I remember the Food Town on Perkins Road in Baton Rouge had the dispenser that spat them out according to how much you purchased. We’d go home and glue them in the book and see what we were eligible for. It took a lot of stamps to get anything but it was the way it was. What I really miss is glass containers that you brought back for refund. No plastic trash, as bags were kraft paper, and always reused around the house in garbage bags. It’s funny how much more we recycled naturally back when no one was thinking about recycleing.
Some things were better then, I don’t miss smelling cigarettes in every restaurant you went to as non smoking sections didn’t help at all and the smokers in restaurants never smoked, they just lit the cigarette and let it burn. Don’t miss that at all.
My fondest memory of my Daddy was him letting me help him ROLL his own cigarettes. The tobacco was Prince Albert, in a red tin container…
IGA store,this is Mark,may I help you? Yes, do you have Prince Albert in a tin? Why yes we do,………….Better let him out he’s suffocating. Good Times🤗
The hours I spent filling books of Green Stamps. Very occasionally my brother and I were allowed to get something with the stamps, but they were usually used for kitchen appliances and other stuff.
We loved the 50 stamps because you could fill a whole page with one stamp. The checkout at the grocery store had a gizmo with a dial like a telephone that the cashier used to dial up the amount of stamps you got.
My family bought lamps and end tables with them. My parents had the 4 of us kids hold stamp licking contests to fill out the paper. Hilarious. Those things saved us many times.
And just found this site:
https://greenstampsforgood.com/enroll
Sundance I may still have a partial book. My mother saved and used them for whatever our household needed. We were lucky enough to have a redemption store in our town. I married a trucker so we collected S&H Green Stamps from his cross country trips. Probably my best purchase was a Singer sewing machine( made in the USA) that I used to make clothes for myself and my children. I would guess I made thousands of dollars worth of clothes.
Most other purchases with the stamps was small appliances, curtains, dinnerware. The kids loved pasting in the stamps.
If you grew up on Publix, you grew up collecting S&H green stamps. I used to get these great sterling silver Parker pens with mine when I was a young man. I always thought it was a classy touch for a rough guy to whip out that nice pen when I had to sign something.
I still have several switchblade combs. There is no signing your name like signing your name with a fountain pen.
My folks bought me my first fishing pole with S&H Greenstamps, probably my 8th Birthday.
Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane.
I remember the green stamps as a kid only because my mom use to collect them.
Were Blue Chip stamps regional to the west? I don’t read much at all about them. They were what we collected, and we did get a few household items from the redemption center. It was always exciting for me to go with mom and pick something out.
Collecting stamps was a great hobby for the kids, teaching goal setting and patience.
When supermarkets went discount pricing in the mid ‘70s, free SH and BC stamps were discontinued.
I have made a side business of finding and reselling that era’s goods. I’m far more in tune with 1973 than I am 2023.
You are clearly reselling things that were well made – and made to last. Unlike things nowadays that are made with planned
obsolescence.
“What are you doing inside?”
“Getting some water, Mom.”
“Well, hurry up and get back out there.”
Go outside and play,….dont come back until your hungry!………
We’d play hopscotch with rocks, roller skate with them clamped to our shoes and watch as massive dust storms would come up from Tucson and run inside at the last minute, fry an egg on the sidewalk and use the hose to drink hot water. And the news keeps touting scorching, excessive heat……what a bunch of baloney!
We had one car so dad and mom went food shopping on Friday evening when he got paid. Mom collected green stamps and to a lesser extent gold bond. It seemed like it took her a long time to fill up the books. I think she got jelly glasses and dish towels. She was happy when she finally had the book filled up. This was in the 60’s in Mesa, Az. Thanks for bringing back good memories CTH 👍
Amen brother! I grew up in CA … in the 1950’s and 1960’s when only a THIRD of the current population lived in the State. My dad drove into the Sierra and we’d hike a short distance and there was NOBODY to be seen for miles! I learned to trout fish ALONE … far from the maddening crowds. The Sierra were pristine! And absolutely beautiful. Tahoe was splendidly uncrowded and even Reagan Republicans were conservationists and put “Keep Tahoe Blue” bumper stickers on their cars. What is Tahoe like now?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/like-a-landfill-more-than-4-tons-of-trash-collected-after-july-fourth-at-lake-tahoe/ar-AA1dwWYD
The REAL dirty secret behind these cretins trashing Tahoe? Hint: they’re not “white”. Nobody will say it out loud … because “racism” or something.
Yes Tahoe is being trashed by ummmm Non residents. Grew up there It was a paradise back then. Beaches were always clean. People had more respect for the world back then.
S&H stamps and Blue chips. I remember them well. Mom saved them. My wife’s mon also.
As a young couple my wife and I got lots of stuff for the house with them. A trip to the green stamp store was a treasure hunting adventure.
I was a child of the 1940’s. Would grab my B.B. gun and spend all day in the woods hunting BIG GAME. No stranger danger in those days. When it got dark I’d head for home, knowing I’d be in trouble for being late for supper. We also didn’t have a T.V. only person in town to have one, was the rich Doctor….
That’s why our country isn’t going to make it.
Because truth has to start being said out loud.
The positive I see coming from hyperinflation/dollar implosion is that cities & suburbs will basically be burned to the ground, populations will be extinguished & when the Roaming Hostiles start coming to the rural areas… they’ll be picked off group by group & one by one.
Q: SD… Green Shield stamps were UK based. Is that where you lived?
We used them in the 50’s and 60’s when I was growing up. I remember pasting them in the books with my grandmother. I don’t remember what we bought with them.