Mom is sporting a nice pearl necklace, pretty risque

My mom would always use them to get kitchen gadgets and dish ware

Scored several of these back in the day with Camel Cash

Same here. Makes me think of my Mother's Mother back in my central Texas days.

My Mom collected them as well I would help her paste them in the book, when she had enough then we would go shopping at the store. I had my eye on a Kitchen playset, I think I ended up getting that for Christmas that year!!

My wife and I were basically broke when first married in 1981. Tomorrow is 42 years.

We acquired several things for the home back then with Green Stamps.

Y’all are old as [censored].

basketball and a wood tennis racket...prolly 63 yrs ago

Life being simple!

Somewhere in all my junk, I have 2 or 3 books of S&H Green stamps that were never cashed in.

I remember them well. My first job at 15 years old was at a TEXACO Gas Station and we gave out Green Stamps.

Heck ya. I still have a jacket I got from collecting them. Got lots of other stuff as well.

My granny showed me the damp sponge method which was clutch! I live in the house I grew up in and it is no more than five miles from where the S&H store was located here in Fort Worth. I can remember two things we got from the store as if it was yesterday. First, my sister and I did not share well with each other at the time so we saved up for two chemistry sets, one for each of us. No way in heck they could sell that dangerous box of chemicals today and many a household item was rendered useless or destroyed all together and it is a miracle that neither my sister nor myself was seriously injured or worse. Second, we had become better at sharing by the time we saved up enough to bet a crochet set. It was really nice and we played with it for years. I know my mom got other things but those are the ones that stand out in my mind.

Thanks for the memories..

In the olden days pilots of business type aircraft would know which fuel dealers gave Green Stamps! Some of the early corporate aircraft with round engines needed lots of Avgas-and oil I might add. So the pilots would load up on fuel at these operations and take the “loot” home to Mama! It made the fuel business pretty wild during those years! I speak from experience! Also I seem to remember “Frontier” stamps although I dont believe they were around as long. My first Zebco rig came from a redemption center in San Angelo but not sure which one!