Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blank Archives via Getty Images If you've ever riffled through your grandparents' junk drawers looking for scissors or tape, you ...
In last Sunday's column, I reminisced about S&H Green Stamps and invited readers to do the same. In the spirit of the season, we shared many of the responses yesterday and offer more today. Thanks for ...
They were little green rectangles. And there were millions of them. Billions. Trillions maybe. Nearly every household brought home long ribbons of them with their groceries or sundries or when they ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 30—It's been 40 some years, but we're again collecting trading stamps and it brings back fond memories of Gold Bond and S&H ...
COLUMBIA, Tenn. -- A grocery store believed to be the last to offer S&H Green Stamps is giving up on the premium that loyal customers could trade in for household wares, toys and other goods. After ...
My mom and her mother saved 7 1/2 books to get us that swing set. Just three years before in 1966, my parents had saved to buy their first house. Money was tight, so, if my sister and I were going to ...
In another time, long before the key question at checkout registers became "credit or debit," there was another popular way to pay for Christmas gifts. And birthday presents or, for that matter, ...
I thumbed through a book of memories last week: a 1956 S&H Green Stamps catalogue my wife unearthed in her mom’s treasure trove of an attic. It didn’t take looking at two pages of the thing to have me ...
I miss getting Sperry & Hutchinson Green Stamps. Recently I happened to catch a glimpse of two large 10-point value S&H Green Stamps wedged into the back of the drawer of my (very old) jewelry box.
FARGO — If you were to utter the following words to anyone under the age of 40, they might give you a quizzical look: “I walked away with a ton of green stamps from Red Owl today.” Those Millennials ...