Do you remember Green Stamps? At the grocery store, if you bought $1.00 worth of groceries, you got 10 green stamps. If you bought $50 worth of grocerites, you got 500 green stamps. (Is that math correct?) My Mama, I remember at my early age, had $50 a week for groceries. $50 to feed 11 of us for a week and maybe to clothe us too? The only extra groceries to be picked up during the week might be milk or bread. Once in a while, I remember Mom sending us "uptown" to get 2 pounds of hamburger or a dozen eggs.
Anyway, Mama got her S&H green stamps every Saturday and once every month or two or more it was almost always a young girl's chore to paste them in the Green Stamp books. You had to lick the stamps. If you couldn't handle that, you got a wet washrag and lay it on the table to pat the stamps on. Each book held 1200 green stamps! At first they all came in a very small size, in sheets. Later, they made a larger stamp equal to 10 little ones so you got them in strips. You'd have to get them wet enough and slap them in the book. It was a good feeling to get a whole book filled . . . and you knew you were that much closer to getting something new for the house but even better -- some new toy or game for the children!
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I remember green stamps but never doing them. Erica used to collect some kind of points--were they Betty Crocker?--when we were little.
yep, I did! And then I got to order free stuff from the betty crocker catalog. I totally would have loved collecting green stamps and pasting them in a book!
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