S&H Green Stamps

[monkeyboy]

Who has em?

 

[trip]

I don't have any now, but we used to save them and Gold Bond stamps when I was little. I remember my Brother purchased a 22 rifle with them. Of course, this was in the early 60's.

 

[ols386]

I don't have any, but my mom used to get them from the grocery store when I was a little kid.

 

[Nancy F]

When my Mom passed away in 1995 I found three books of S&H Green Stamps and a box of nylon stockings amongst her things. It was like traveling back in time.
Nancy

 

[MomofKatie]

My mom got her set of bone china with S&H Green stamps- she was a newlywed in the early 60's and saved enough to get a complete service for 10 with all the serving pieces. Strangely, she never got any bowls- I guess she didn't have enough Green stamps for them. We still use that china every time we have a holiday meal at her house.

 

[Tinijocaro]

I used be the designated child in our family of five kids to lick the stamps and put them intot he book.

In the 70's in elementary school chorus, we used to sing this song, sung to the tune fo Greensleeves-ahh 70's humor:

I found my love in a grocery shop,
Selling pickles and egg-plants and bottles of pop;
She asked me to try her asparagus tips,
And I fell for the smile on her ruby red lips.



Green stamps were all she gave,
Green stamps were all I took,
Green stamps were all I saved,
So I pasted them all in my green stamp book.

I'd go every day just to gaze at her face,
And in no time at all I had bought out the place.
Tho' ne'er did I e'er taste her ruby red lips,
I own four thousand cans of asparagus tips.

Green stamps . . .

Whenever I'm lonely or tired or blue,
I go to my bookshelf and here's what I do:
I reach for that book and then with loving care,
I count every green stamp that's pasted in there.

Green stamps . . .

Sung to the tune of Green-sleeves

 

["Got Disney"]

We had them when I was a child....I am 53...I remember having to be the one that got to lick them and stick them in the books....YUCK! I can taste them now...EWWWWW....and cant remember what the heck she bought with them...my mom that is. And by the way I always glued them in crooked...could never get then in the squares perfectly.

 

[NotUrsula]

Many of us who grew up in the South probably knew more about Top Value stamps; those were the yellow ones that were given by Winn Dixie stores. In our area, W-D gave out Top Value and National gave out S&H.

My mom was a HUGE stamp saver, and she watched with an eagle eye for other shoppers who were about to throw them away outside the store so that she could ask for them; we almost always ended up with extras that way on every shopping trip. Some items that I clearly remember getting via stamp redemption were our first vacuum cleaner, several oil lamps for hurricane use, a large red-glass vase, a set of stainless flatware, and the treasured bedspread that I got when I first got a room of my own: it was mostly white, with a green border and huge appliques of tulips in various bright colors.

 

[dyna]

I remember Green stamps we got them at the gas station an the top value yellow an red stamps at Krogers. Some years mom did her Christmas shopping with the stamps those was the years we actually got store bought stuff for christmas. Often as not tho mom got stuff we needed for the house with the stamps most of which she is still using today.Pole lamp, box fans.