Who remembers S&H green stamps
06-19-2011, 12:38 PM
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I think RINSO and OXYDOL and some of the others used to put dish towels and hand towels in their soap flakes and detergent boxes.
Oh yeah - those were the brands I remember! My mom filled our linen closet with those towels! I can even remember bath towels in the(Rinso? I think) boxes. They weren't very big (as compared to today) but we used 'em!
Remember the glasses that were in the dish detergent?
Originally Posted by jpthequilter
Originally Posted by thomp116
I think RINSO and OXYDOL and some of the others used to put dish towels and hand towels in their soap flakes and detergent boxes.
06-19-2011, 12:39 PM
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I do. We saved them as newly weds. One thing we got was a picnic basket which we still use on all our road trips after almost 47 years of marriage. I remember looking through the Green Stamp Catalog and dreaming about what we were saving for like a child looking at the Sear's Wish Book before Christmas.
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06-19-2011, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by jpthequilter
Originally Posted by valsma
Originally Posted by Numa
I still have a milk glass fruit bowl, footed pitcher, and 8 matching glasses that my Mom got with green stamps. I also remember the Jewel Tea man and his magical truck full of things, and the aluminum kitchen stuff in boxes of oatmeal, 45's, and towels in the detergent boxes. Those towels were my Mom's guest towels and we better not even think of touching them! Thanks for the blast from te past!!
They really worked. You just took pictures with them, and sent the whole thing back to the Kodak company in - I think Rochester NY. and they would send you back a printed black and white set of the photos you took. My uncle loved to do that, and would look for the heavier -fatter Cracker Jack boxes that had the cameras inside them in the displays in the stores. I liked that because, I usually got to eat the cracker jacks! Jeannie
Jeannie
If you remember all this, you might also remember the days when most people had ice boxes that required buying ice to keep in the cold compartment. How much fun when the ice man came by and we could pick up slivers of ice that chipped off the main chunk. It wasn't until after WWII that we could find an electric rerigerator. Seems to me it was a Kelvinator. froggyintexas
P.S. I sure do like 2011 better than I liked 1951 even with its S & H Green Stamps!
06-19-2011, 01:08 PM
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My job was to put them in the book. We had a little dish with a wet sponge in it and I thought it was so fun to pat the green stamp on the sponge then put it in the book. Entertainment was cheap back then! (the 50's- 60's). I got my first iron with GS. And many more things but that's what I remember most.
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