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Oh yes….. I have many of the items that my mother purchased with them. I’d help her put them into the books then we’d go to the S&H store and get the stuff she wanted. It was usually a canister to add to her set or something along those lines. Good memories of something so simple.
We saved them and had a redemption center in our city. I went to a Catholic elementary school and the parish contributed enough stamps to buy a station wagon for the nuns. As a college student I worked for National Car Rental and we would hand out pages and pages of the stamps for car rentals. We came across a stash of them a few years ago while clearing out a house. You can still redeem them in fact for cash.
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Oh yes, pasting them into booklets and then buying sometimes decent stuff!
Oh yes….. I have many of the items that my mother purchased with them. I’d help her put them into the books then we’d go to the S&H store and get the stuff she wanted. It was usually a canister to add to her set or something along those lines. Good memories of something so simple.
I still have an S&H green stamp drum table in my living room! When we gor married in the 70’s, both our moms had the same green stamp coffee table.
Just reading this made me remember the taste of the glue on the backs.
plaid stamps also but they were not as prevalent as the green… and saving the box tops from “rinso blue” laundry soap, for cannon towels
We saved them and had a redemption center in our city. I went to a Catholic elementary school and the parish contributed enough stamps to buy a station wagon for the nuns. As a college student I worked for National Car Rental and we would hand out pages and pages of the stamps for car rentals. We came across a stash of them a few years ago while clearing out a house. You can still redeem them in fact for cash.
Of course. Parents did.
Now, mind you, both parents were from Depression Era farms.
Nothing was wasted or thrown out.
They had collected S&H for some 20 years.
always gonna ‘get something big’.
Never used it for anything small.
Time passes.
When my mother passed and we were cleaning out the house, we found boxes full of S&H stamp books, from decades past!
They never redeemed any!