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[Enufstuff]

@HLP   Fiesta is quite heavy, especially the pieces that they started manufacturing in the 80's to the present time.

 There were coupons on the boxtops of Betty Crocker mixes and on General Mills cereals. My mother bought her Oneida flatware

from the Betty Crocker catalog in the 60's. The catalog was discontinued, sometime in the 90's.

[Sakuya]

I remember seeing the green stamps on a rerun of The Brady Bunch.

[Puggywuggy]

Oh, yes! I certainly remember helping Mom post Blue Chip & S&H Green stamps in books. My brother & I used to have to lick & paste the stamps...blech...I finally wisened up & began using a damp washcloth, lol.

[Trailrun23]

Loved sticking those green stamps into the books for my mom and going to the redemption store with her. I still have a big cookie jar she got there. We had a really nice ottoman in the den from there and a lamp and I think a toaster-oven type thing. I know some of the grocery stores gave out stamp and you could redeem them for dishes. My grandmother got lots of placesettings of china doing that.

[riley1]

My Mom got them and my job was to put them in the books

[Lucky Charm]

I remember licking sheets that were so big they filled the whole page in one shot.  I think the cash register kicked them out when you checked out at the grocery store.

Only remember two things specifically, a tall green table lamp.  Looked like something in the Brady Bunches living room.  And a huge red apple cookie jar.  That my mom never put cookies in.  She was afraid it would get chipped, I guess.  (It probably would have.) 

I remember banks giving really nice china and crystal glassware for depositing money into savings.  Now they're barely giving anything for interest rates.... 

[Sage04]

I  remember living in the Bronx on Prospect Avenue. They opened an A&P there and got green stamps everytime I shopped. Had no idea what to do with them but my neighbor certainly did. She certainly used them.

I was about 19-20 and never paid attention then. Her husband finally  told me to stop giving her my green stamps, but my then she had gotten enough to trade them in.

I wonder what happen to her? lol

[Tori3569]

I remember pasting them in the books with my mom and several trips to the redemption center.  I also grew up in the Bronx and the redemption center was only about a 10 minute walk and right across the street from my church and grammar school.

My mom got things like glasses, plates, a toaster, etc. but she always let me pick something out.  I can't help but think back and laugh that I got the same thing three times--a cash register.  😹.  Not sure why but it was an omen, as I have spent my entire career in retail and food service.  

[Toppers3]

Like many of you, I helped my Mom put the green stamps in the booklets.

I know that she redeemed them too, but I can't remember what she got with them.

I think that there might have been some housewares and small appliances...

One item that I clearly remember that she got was a nice small bookcase that she put in our kitchen at home that she used for her cookbooks.

When she moved out of that home and into her next home, she stored the bookcase away and stopped using it altogether. It was made so nicely that I asked her for it so that I could use it so that I could have it for my own cookbooks, but she wouldn't part with it! 

[Sage04]

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@Tori3569 wrote:

I remember pasting them in the books with my mom and several trips to the redemption center.  I also grew up in the Bronx and the redemption center was only about a 10 minute walk and right across the street from my church and grammar school.

My mom got things like glasses, plates, a toaster, etc. but she always let me pick something out.  I can't help but think back and laugh that I got the same thing three times--a cash register.  😹.  Not sure why but it was an omen, as I have spent my entire career in retail and food service.  

@Tori3569  you made me laugh. A cash register three times? That mean you really, really, really liked them. lol

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