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I do. emilyg Apr 2012 #1
I do. Kaleva Apr 2012 #2
Mom got a toaster. Ikonoklast Apr 2012 #3
My grandmother got a toaster for opening a new bank account Rhiannon12866 Apr 2012 #47
We Had Shoe-Boxes Full Of Them, Sir The Magistrate Apr 2012 #4
I even collected them when I was a student! CBHagman Apr 2012 #5
Jeez, I was hoping for beer and travel money liberaltrucker Apr 2012 #6
You just have to collect enough! I remember these in about the same era as the Hamm's bear bear OffWithTheirHeads Apr 2012 #7
Ipana! NRaleighLiberal Apr 2012 #9
I thought the Hamm's Bear was great. hifiguy Apr 2012 #21
They still serve Hamm's around town. geardaddy Apr 2012 #33
The Commercials Were Great, Sir, Still Remember Them Fondly: The Beer...Was Not... The Magistrate Apr 2012 #39
The Bear was definitely better than the beer. hifiguy Apr 2012 #42
From the land of sky blue wa-a-ters.... ProudProgressiveNow Apr 2012 #52
Ah, the effects of those early commercials! jamesatemple Apr 2012 #58
Great story! ProudProgressiveNow Apr 2012 #63
My mom would sit us kids down like an assembly line to get those stamps glued in the books. likesmountains 52 Apr 2012 #8
wow brings back memories Bombero1956 Apr 2012 #10
I still have some Duer 157099 Apr 2012 #11
My mom got a rocking chair with Green Stamps Art_from_Ark Apr 2012 #12
I remember them well as a kid in the early 70's Populist_Prole Apr 2012 #13
I do. RiffRandell Apr 2012 #14
Ah...Green Stamps... CherokeeDem Apr 2012 #15
I still have some Green Stamps - and some Yellow Stamps too. HopeHoops Apr 2012 #16
My family got a Scotch cooler, bleever Apr 2012 #17
We had that exact cooler Mendocino Apr 2012 #62
Yes, got a lot of great things with S&H stamps. n/t RebelOne Apr 2012 #18
i remember them well dmoyer Apr 2012 #19
My parents saved them back in the early 1960s. hifiguy Apr 2012 #20
My parents used to save them. HappyMe Apr 2012 #22
I remember them well... virgdem Apr 2012 #23
I do. Iggo Apr 2012 #24
I remember getting the Blue Chip stamps too here in the Bay Area. The best "prize" we got... bluesbassman Apr 2012 #25
S&H was bigger in the fifties on the west coast Brother Buzz Apr 2012 #28
They still exist, as "greenpoints". KamaAina Apr 2012 #26
I got a set of dishes with those before I got married. I got a few other Arkansas Granny Apr 2012 #27
THIS is a tomato (Cherokee Purple) jlayson Apr 2012 #29
Great! (I named that tomato back in 1990 - my claim to fame - and luck!) NRaleighLiberal Apr 2012 #32
You named it! geardaddy Apr 2012 #35
Ah, yes libodem Apr 2012 #30
I do. geardaddy Apr 2012 #31
My mom also collected xloadiex Apr 2012 #34
Oh, yeah. Still Blue in PDX Apr 2012 #36
I got my first ironing board with green stamps! And a chess set. nt raccoon Apr 2012 #37
Kind of like the "Rewards" JEB Apr 2012 #38
I certainly remember Green Stamps, collecting them, pasting them in books and then redeeming northoftheborder Apr 2012 #40
What I miss about the "olden days" was getting free glasses & stuff with your .25 a gallon gas!!!!!! northoftheborder Apr 2012 #41
And they'd clean your windshield too LiberalEsto Apr 2012 #44
I do. I was pretty young, but I remember emmadoggy Apr 2012 #43
I remember that my mother got a chair Rhiannon12866 Apr 2012 #45
Oh yeah. We got our first Weber grill. Auggie Apr 2012 #46
I think a lot of my wedding and bridal shower gifts came from there. femmocrat Apr 2012 #48
I do. n/t CottonBear Apr 2012 #49
I do nt steve2470 Apr 2012 #50
Yup! ProudProgressiveNow Apr 2012 #51
Yep. It was the job of the children in the family to lick them all... n/t DebJ Apr 2012 #53
My Uncle just told me a great Green Stamp story Mopar151 Apr 2012 #54
Late 50's, five teenage high school girls, pack of pall mall cigs., were looking to get into some crunch60 Apr 2012 #55
Andy Warhol did a screen print of them. Arctic Dave Apr 2012 #56
I do! I got a vacuum cleaner in the mid seventies sometime... 1monster Apr 2012 #57
Yes! guitar man Apr 2012 #59
Yep. Also Gold Bond stamps. Liberal Veteran Apr 2012 #60
I saved many of those. Got some good stuff with them too. n/t Little Star Apr 2012 #61
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