S&H Green Stamp Ideal Book Catalog 1968 ~ Mid-Century Fun ~ Advertising Addict
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
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In the 1960s it took 1,200 stamps to fill a book. You got 1 stamp per dime you spent, so to fill a book with 1,200 stamps you would have to spend $120. In the 1960s $120 was not chump change. I vaguely remember it took quite a few books to exchange them for merchandise. I also recall back about 1965 my church asked parishioners to donate S&H filled books to buy a new station wagon for the nuns who resided and taught at the school. I don't recall the model station wagon it was but they needed about 3,000 or 3,500 books to get that wagon. They were successful in people donating enough books to get the car.
You could also redeem the books for cash. In the 1960s they paid $1.20 for a full book. As mentioned above, one would have to spend $120 to have the 1,200 stamps to fill the book. Therefore, the S&H program was equivalent to getting a 1% cash back on store purchases. Today, one can get 2% or 3% on purchases they make using credit cards. No mess of storing, pasting stamps in books, etc.
In 1970, I worked at a grocery store (National Tea Co.) that gave out Green Stamps. I asked my boss at the time “How much does it cost the store to give them out?” and he replied “$62.50 for 25,000 stamps”. So, for every $2,500 customers spent, it cost the store $62.50, or, 1% of the sale price.
Wow! Thanks for this great breakdown of the value of the stamps.😀
Wondrous times golden and bright
Glad you enjoyed Larry!
My mom used to let me have all the stamps. Then one day she took me to the S&H Green Stamp store and I bought my first globe with the stamps I collected. From there I loved maps and geography, grew up to be a mapmaker. Thank you S&H !!
That's so cool Jenny!
I remember remember sticking stamps into books every Saturday afternoon. My tongue would turn green from the glue. Mom would give me a book and a half for doing this. When we went to the redemption center, I always got a stuffed cat toy.
Great memories!
My mom LOVED these. She would have us at the kitchen table glueing those stamps into the books/pages. She would get all kinds of stuff. ❤️
Fun family memories!
Same here :)
I was walking home from school one day when I was a kid, and past by trash that was put out on the curb. There were two cardboard boxes of FULL books of S&H green stamps! I took them home to my Mom and my Aunt, I was a hero! I went with them to the S&H center and they cashed them in for a lot of nice stuff for the house! What great times they were!!
Wow! That's amazing! That was a lucky day.
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Yea it was! I was a hero that day, lol. I still remember it all these years later. Truley the best of times!
@@mikec7176 I hope they got you something as well...
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Lol, I really didnt like anything in the redemption center store, it was just great to feel like a hero for the day, and see my Mom happy.
@@mikec7176 I saw toys, sporting goods, musical instruments in the catalog...
my mother and grandmother used to trade their books with friends
That was my task on the weekend before we went to the S&H Store. We had a drawer in the kitchen full of the Stamps and I and my siblings updated the books before we're going to go shopping. There were things in that catalog we had... What a flash back.
Great memories!😃
Love that 🎶 music! Those Trombones are bad ass!!!!
I'm so glad you liked the music! Some others didn't! 😁😁
@@ToyAddict yea that's soulful music funk they gotta have soul to get n feel it ijs ♥️♥️♥️😊
Mom bought our clothes hamper with Green Stamps, and I still use it.
Mom used to collect those stamps and I remember both books of stamps and the catalogs.
Great memories! Thanks for watching.
Loved green stamps. The more books you had the bigger gift at the redemption center..
I remember my mom and grandmother going to the "stamp store"! It was a treat for my sister and I to paste the stamps into the books.
They would usually get some kind of kitchen appliance. Toaster, mixer, culinary set, etc. The offer was made but I personally never found anything in the store or catalog that I wanted!
Loved S&H green stamps! So May great gifts!
Thanks for watching Marci!
Cleaning out a cupboard today and tucked in back was the set of dishes my mom gave to me when I left home after high school in 1968. I knew she had got them with S&H green stamps so came to RUclips looking for proof and found your video with a picture of the exact set. Thank you. Great memories of looking through that wish book.
So glad that you enjoyed it!
S & H green stamps and Top Value. I still have 3 ceramic pieces my mom gave to my uncle, a large bull and matador ,Norman Rockwell Kid fishing and a chinese gentleman fishing. Stamps were fun ,they need to bring back Stamps and freebies.
That would be fun wouldn't it!
I have a lamp from 1965 that was obtained by green stamps. I call it my "Green Stamp Lamp".
Ha! That's great! 🛋
We thought we owned the world. None we loved would die. There's always be double features. Good tv on Saturday night.
Damn, we had books of S&H, Eagle stamps, and catalog items animatedly argued, family vote and redeemed. Memories long forgotten. Thanks !
That's great that everyone had a vote in what you got!
*Mom & 'Gramma' had plenty of those books...I still have a 'Lux' wall-clock that I custom-painted to match the '50's Look' for a big room in the back of my house to look like a 'Route 66' rental cabin*
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*Still have some of the 'Mel-Mac' table-dishes too!* ( *Not many, just several pieces that somehow survived and are STILL good* )
*Wish I still had one of my 'Texaco Tanker' plastic ships that had a battery-powered propeller that you could actually put in the bath-tub or kid-pool...you got those from gas stations* )
Wow! It sounds like you got a lot of great stuff from saving green stamps! I love the idea of making a room look like a Route 66 rental cabin! That boat sounds awesome too!
@@AdvertisingAddict *I just wanted an 'homage' to what I remember from traveling when I was a kid to a room that was 'wonky' when I got it so I got old furniture for practically nothing like 'Dressers' and and re-built them for strength and then painted them with 'Krylon' colors like alternating 'Buttercream Yellow' and then 'Melon Green' and they look like stuff from a magazine that sells for hundreds!* ( HA! )
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*I was going to put new 'guts' in the clock and then decided 'No, because in here Time stands still and it's always 1959 or so'*
*I even got one of the old 'Sofa Sleepers' that weighs about 3-tons and still looks 'perfect' and actually not bad to sleep-on w/a 'topper' on it!*
( *There's a 'Hopi Dancers' rug hanging behind the sofa that I had to custom fabricate a hanger for...it's 'too cool for school!* )
*The 'Hopi' rug was the only thing I spent real money on...I think $65 but it's big and needed to be 'clamped' between two painted panel-boards and then anchored into the cinderblock wall...very strong*
@@gerrynightingale9045 sounds amazing! I'd watch a video tour of that!!
@@AdvertisingAddict *Naw...it's just stuff that 'I like' instead of someone telling me 'What I should like'*
*I couldn't buy it...so I made it out of 'old junk furniture' anyone can get*
( *I didn't like the pull-handles on the dressers so I took off, cleaned & primer-coat and then used 'Brass' w/an 'Antique Hammered Copper' over-spray and they look-like they 'came that way' from the factory* )
*Lotta' people might hate it...but I like it and that's all that really matters*
( *You'd be shocked at the stuff you can pick-up cheap at 'Goodwill' and yard-sales for a few bucks, put some work into it and people think it's 'high-end' or something* )
*For instance, I found a 'Display Easel' tripod and hung an old advertising of the 'Golden Gate' with a really 'bright-reddish' of the bridge that 'pops' and then mounted a cheap kids telescope on top of the easel in-line w/the photo...makes it look like some kind of 'Art Deco' piece from maybe the early '60's and the entire thing was maybe $20!*
@@gerrynightingale9045 That's great! I love to fix up old stuff from Goodwill. I also love to watch you tube channels of people that can do that and make things look so amazing!
Our S & H redemption center was on Seminary Drive in Fort Worth, Texas. Mom went there with her stamps several times in the 1970s, and got some dishes and serving pots.
That's awesome!
Just telling the hubby about this- he grew up in Ft. Worth.
I remember going with my mom to cash in her stamps and I still have a couple of books from her.
Great memories!
I am an advertising addict,too. And I dig that funky music in the feature.
Hey Raynard! Thanks for checking out the video. I hope you enjoy my other videos too! I just love stuff like this. That music is from the RUclips music library and I thought it worked pretty well with this catalog. Have a fantastic day! Jody (Toy & Advertising Addict!)
The 70s guitar, and the Hammond B3 organ! Great stuff!
S&H Green stamps and Blue Chip stamps, too. I remember my mom having me lick the stamps and put them in the books. Seemed like it took forever to fill a book and longer to get enough to redeem them for something. But it was worth it because it meant a trip to their redemption shop.
Great memory! Thanks for sharing!
My great-grandmother used to save them to get me and my little brother toys for Christmas man the anticipation waiting for her to get that little book filled was terrible I have the metal excavator tractor it has no name on it but I saw the exact one in a flea market by nitel mine has no name or manufacturer on it anywhere I also had the Little red scooter when I was about 4 years old lots of great memories
@@richardshumate3712 I can't believe how many of the books, completely full, I have found at garage sales and thrift stores over the years. Why didn't they turn them in? So many cool items to get!!
I got the toy roller coaster at 4:39 for my seventh birthday. I remember picking it out from the catalog. I LOVED that toy! (Thanks, Grandma)!
Awesome!
I got the roller coaster too! I remember going downtown with my parents to pick it up after saving up enough books. I loved that coaster
@@martylawson3545 I bought another one on eBay! I use it as a Christmas decoration under the tree. I have a lot of tin wind-up toys I hang on the tree. My favorite is the roller coaster
A good share of the stuff in our house or in my stepdads tool boxes came from the stamp store.
That's a LOT of stamps!!! 😃
Remember my mom collecting S&H Green stamps when grocery shopping. She had a little booklet she pasted them into. One of the items she bought was a tall elegant electric percolator to replace a temperamental Pyrex stovetop coffee maker. She enjoyed having friends for coffee & the new percolator was a bit of luxury. We didn't have much money & Green Stamps allowed her to treat herself to some nice things.
That's a really neat way to think about it! Thanks for sharing your memories!
A fun walk thru time. My grandmother collected S&H Stamps. I don't recall what she redeemed with them. I recall even seeing cars in some S&H catalogs.
Cars? Wow! That's a lot of stamps!
Randall’s goes this with pots and pans on occasion. We have our Masterchef pan from using the store during COVID.
My mother used to collect Green Stamps for this book and she got a couple of items out of the book
That's awesome! Do you remember what she ordered?
I remember Green Stamps very well. My mom and grandmother would go to the Green Stamp store about once a year to buy things with their books of stamps. I cannot remember what they actually bought. But I do remember that when they bought something. The clerk would immediately use a large stamping machine to punch holes all the way though the turned in books. So that no one could use them again. For an item that had 1/2 book in it's price. The clerk would tear the book in half. Often they kept the front pages and give you back the back pages of the book. I remember that you had to pay the sales tax in actual cash.
In watching this video, the highest price that I saw was for a color TV for 190 books (at 3:30). I cannot imagine how anyone would get that many Green Stamps.
Right! That's a lot of grocery shopping!
Recently at a thrift store I bought a large box of trading stamps and booklets. S&H, Gold Bond, Gunn Bros, Top Value, and several others.
I plan on making something like a shadow box (i think thats what they are called) containing the stamps and books.
That's awesome!
...Thanks for posting...My town was all about Blue Chip Stamps. Similar catalog...had a flashback seeing all the furniture being...avocado...orange...brown...thought I was back in High School for a moment.I didn't notice any wood wall paneling...A.C.Feuerhelm
I remember all of the wood paneling! Thanks for watching.
The salad days of S&H Green Stamps. A very interesting look at a vintage trading stamps catalogue from the past. 😁
Thanks for watching!
Damn, I'm old.
😁 Yup! Me too!
ME 2 BUT, I STILL ROCK!
We had clock number 7 at 3:02! 😄
Fancy!
Back in the 1960s, I was a “checker” summers at a family-owned Affiliated Grocers store in then “North” Dallas, Texas. That meant I took each item out of the basket, looked and spoke out-loud to the watching customer, manually punched-in the price for the categories of “grocery,” “meat”, “produce” or the dreaded “X” for anything that required a sales tax, such as soft drinks, candy, housewares, etc.
Anyway, we gave Green Stamps. Each counter had an automatic dispenser that held two rolls of stamps: the 10-cent stamp and the new $1.00 stamp. We’d punch in the bill rounded to the nearest dime and the dispenser would automatically spit them out.
Anyway, the store manager told me that a spool of the 10-cent stamps alone that might have been around 5 inches in diameter to re-load the machine cost the store $75 in overhead to attract customers. Back then, that was big bucks.
Wow! I guess I never thought of that, but someone was having to pay for it. Interesting.
Did anyone else's mom fold a washcloth in quarters, put it on a saucer and make it sopping wet? Then all you had to do was press a block of stamps down and presto, no yucky taste. I loved when she figured that out/heard about it. Some years she would give me all the stamps and I could use them to get gifts for my family. Hadn't thought of that in years.
Great idea!
No, but I do remember the stamps.
No, but mine had me put stamps in the books by wiping them gently with a damp cloth. She hated the taste of the glue so much, she wouldn't even inflict it on me.
We used a wet sponge.
I remember back in the day the cashier would ask if we wanted our stamps (green or blue chip). Most of the time my mom said no. “It was too much trouble gluing them in the books. He always tore off the stamps and tossed them in a bin. Makes me wonder how much free stuff he got
Ha! He probably furnished his entire house!
I remember. Oh wait that was somebody’s else’s ad campaign. Gold medal flour if I think.
We had Simpsons catalogue. The stuff never looked the same upon delivery..🤣🇨🇦
Oh no!
That's unfortunate. Were the items cheaper and not as well made? Sort of like buying on the Wish App?
@@AdvertisingAddict kinda cheaper looking or just didn't look like the catalogue pic. I refused to wear and then my mother reported to my father . end result? I was told.. you'll wear what your told to wear!! 🤣
Got my first Basketball in 1968 courtesy of S&H……..a Voit 🤓
The boy on the cover of the catalog looks like the boy from the movie 'Airplane'. I wonder if he liked gladiator movies?
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I have a genuine Dymo label maker and tape sitting in the file cabinet right next to this PC as I type. It cost 1 book of Blue Stamps. But as a gas station attendant back then these were the biggest PAIN IN THE ASS. We dispensed both types from a machine that hung on the column at the gas pumps. It used a rotary dial like a phone and you dialed out the number of dollars the customer bought in gas. One time I had a Karen who pitched a bitch that I shorted her her 3 times regular stamps as advertised on a sign at the entrance to the station. I finally got it through her concrete head the sign said "buy 3 tires and get the 4th one free". To some people those stamps were almost like a life giving necessity. It was nuts! Like Jude Kay said, a wet sponge in a dish was a great way to wet them.
You didn't regift the label maker?
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I just bought an S&H Greenstams book at an antique store this summer. The book is completely filled up and ready to cash in and I’ve been wondering what the value would have been. I’ve been estimating that a full book was probably worth around $15 worth of merchandise $15 was kind of a lot back in 1968.
Yes! Too bad they didn't get the chance. Maybe it got misplaced.
If my memory serves me well, each book was worth about $3. Of course $3 was worth more back then.
And dont forget the Gold stamp, that was worth even more!
@@mikec7176 Yes, that’s right! I almost forgot about those.
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Yup, I dont remember the value if the gold one, but it was a lot more than the green ones. I thought those things were so cool!
I remember dampening sheets of stamps, and putting them in the books. However, I don''t recall my parents redeeming them for specific items. I do remember comic/singer, Alan Sherman, doing a song about Green Stamps ... [url]ruclips.net/video/5LXl-T8qhKU/видео.html[/url].
So many posts of licking the stamps😝. We used a damp sponge.
S&H had metal signs everywhere. Things seemed so permanent a d stable back then. They are all gone now. Everything is temporary now. Everything is in ruins now. It really isn't even the same country anymore. It isn't even the same world or the same kind of human species anymore. Everything is weird now. Good luck
Yes, everything is different now, but that's now always a bad thing. There are lots of great new innovations that make the world a better place. Life is a give and take, everything changes for better or for worse. It's best to just try to roll with it. Have a fantastic day!
How many green stamps would it take to get a stove?
Good question, probably a lot!😀
Really loved seeing this, but had to mute the obnoxious music, which didn’t fit the subject at all. That sounded like it belonged backgrounding 8mm home movies of squares visiting the Sunset Strip in ‘68. Still great to see this vintage stuff and I love the channel, so screw my negative waves.
EDIT TO ADD: I just showed this to my wife and she loved it, including the music. So what do I know?
Always feel free to turn down the music! I only add it to have some sound, but the copyright-free music is limited. Glad you enjoy the channel!
@@AdvertisingAddict I only recently discovered the channel and I’m already blissfully addicted. I don’t know of any other YT videos that so inspire rewatching, with constant bits and pieces of interest and intrigue always yielding fresh discoveries. Thanks for brainstorming this enterprise and creating such a continually provocative and inspiring museum for the circuses of marketing. 👍
@@ProfessorEchoMedia It's great that you are finding enjoyment in the channel. I love all of this stuff and felt the need to share it. I think some of this stuff will eventually be lost forever, and it's just too much fun!
i got bongo drums but didn't turn into a hippie.
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Alert! This video is NOTHING but a slide show of images taken from the Catalog, No Narrative, No Captions.
As are most of the videos on this channel. Just sharing fun advertising and fond memories, no documentaries here.
@Toy-Addict I wish they had blown up some of the pages...I want to know how many books were required to get one of those major appliances at 3:35.
@@tomservo56954 As I recall, each stamp had a "value" of 10¢; a book around $3.00. 100 books about an average per appliance (large), 10 books for a small appliance.
the-advertising-addict.blogspot.com/2022/11/s-green-stamps-1968-video-and-full-scans.html This blog entry has the full scans of all of the pages. You can right click on any pages and see it close up!
@@AdvertisingAddict I didn't realize you could get anything from a mink stole to Six Flags tickets with Green Stamps...