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[Enufstuff]

  In the 60's we collected Green Stamps from the supermarket and gas station.  We got so many things for our first apartment.

 I got my first set of dishes and a foot stool. I still have my Revere Ware copper bottom stainless steel pans, Farberware skillet, set of Blue Cornflower Corning Ware pans, set of Echo utensils and Pyrex mixing bowls. Those all came from the Green Stamp Store.

When we had our first baby, we got a very well made Cosco stroller.

 Other stores had Tru Value and Plaid Stamps. We only collected the Green Stamps.

[occasionalrain]

I still have a book of green stamps and two books of plaid. Somewhere there's a person/persons who collects them. I wonder if I could sell them on Ebay.

[granddi]

@On It I guess this was the original "customer rewards" program.

[MamaWick]

I still remember where the redemption store was located in Clayton, MO (a St Louis suburb).

[beach-mom]

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@ScrapHappy wrote:

So strange I should see this today.  Yesterday I was thinking about these stamps and my Grandmother.  I remember her putting these stamps into books.  Haven't thought about it in many years,.  

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@ScrapHappy - I remember watching my grandmother do this too. My mom, brother, and I lived with her for a while when we moved, so I went to the store with her a few times.

 I remember where the store was. It's still there, by itself, and of course something else is there. I only get up there once in a while, because it's pretty far from us. We visit two cemeteries because I'm the only one of my generation left. 

[ROMARY]

'Isn't is something' that the smallest (pun intended) things used to delight us many, many years ago.

There were many small things that made our lives just a little bit brighter.

[homedecor1]

My brother and I used to sit for hours scanning the S&H catalog picking out things we wanted!  @On It thanks for a fun memory

and my mom always shopped on double green stamp days!

Oh the simpler days and things we enjoyed🙂

[Carolina925]

We did this all the time! Before we were so concerned about germs, we'd all sit around the table and lick those stamps to put into the books. Amazing that I made it to my 70s consuming all those germs. Our nearest store to redeem them was about an hour away, it was always exciting to have a bag full of filled books and then choose our "free" gifts. My mother got a metal & ceramic smoking stand that my brother still has in his house. No one smokes any longer but it's such a cute thing that we all enjoy it. It has space for two glasses, a big ashtray, then two metal shelves underneath for books and magazines. I've been on a search forever to find another.