<p>We have a popcorn popper we bought with Green Stamps probably 32 years ago, but we never use it anymore.</p>
<p>We also have a GE food processor/blender (it has 2 attachments) that’s 33 years old that we still use. We thought it was very cutting edge 33 years ago.</p>
<p>Wow-- did a little looking at the history of the S&H (Sperry/Hutchinson) green stamps and in addition to being reminded of plaid stamps (we had those too) I discovered green stamps morphed into something called green points, and they still exist today! [S&H</a> greenpoints](<a href=“greenpoints - AppCard”>greenpoints - AppCard) Who knew…</p>
<p>I remember green stamps. I think we got our Veg-a-matic with those but I’m not positive. We still use it. They made things to last better in those days IMO.</p>
<p>I remember green stamps from when I was a kid, putting the stamps in the books and going with my parents to the redemption place.</p>
<p>Something I still use although not from Green Stamps is my American Food Processor and companion cookbook. I bought both in A & S Dept Store in NY, a store that sadly bit the dust long ago but I use my gazpacho recipe all the time. The inside cover of the spiral bound cookbook, copyright 1977 has a price stamp of $5.00. The American Food Processor was the cheaper go-to version when Cuisinart was first on the market and popular. </p>
<p>I still use my GE hand-mixer that is in a very vintage cardboard box. I think that I took it my from my mother’s kitchen when I first had my own apartment after graduating college in the early 1970’s. Even though I have a Kitchenaid stand mixer, I use the hand mixer when I make whipped cream… works for me all the time.</p>
<p>I have the ice bucket that was a gift to my parents when they wed in 1937. It’s chrome with little penguins all around. I use it whenever we have company.</p>
<p>I remember green stamps and I remember my mother saving them to get items such as a toaster or an iron. My parents’ generation grew up during the Depression, lived through rationing and shortages during WWII, and didn’t believe in the '50s that prosperity would last. How different things were then. One car for both of my parents, saving nickels and dimes until they could afford a clothes dryer.</p>
<p>I have the cast iron pancake griddle that was given to my mother as a wedding present when she married her first husband in 1937 (she eloped when she married her second, my father). Sadly, it’s been cleaned so many times that it’s very thin in the center and really not much good for pancakes. Works well to toast tortillas quickly though.</p>
<p>Oh, and I have the silver spoons that were given to my grandfather in payment of a debt in 1892.</p>
<p>Well, I went and bought a hand crank egg beater a few years ago, only to realize (when demonstrating for my girls,) that in the intervening years, I’d lost the knack, the coordination. Not good.</p>
<p>I have my great-grandmother’s cookie cutters. She was a fantastic and avid baker and used to start her Christmas baking weeks in advance. She had a huge collection of cookie tins (I don’t know who got those!) that she kept organized on an open shelf in the basement of her home. When we visited, she’d take us down and let us choose from this treasure trove of cookies. I also have many of her recipes handwritten by her. I keep those in a binder with photo album sleeves to protect them. </p>
<p>I, too, remember S&H stamps and gluing them in the books then going to the redemption center with my mom. </p>
<p>I have my grandmother’s Edlund jar opener that I use often. I’ve never found another one that works as well.</p>
<p>I remember shopping on a particular day and buying certain items to get DOUBLE SH green stamps. Going to the redemption center was an outing!</p>
<p>I have a family potato masher. Red wooden hand, and the masher part is a round flat disc with holes in in it. It makes the perfect mashed potatoes.</p>
<p>We had gold bond stamps, not green stamps. Not positive what I purchased with them but believe it includes several lightweight 30 gallon ice chests. One is still in use but we gave away the other (too bulky for both once the kids were done with sports). </p>
<p>We have MILs Kitchen Aid standing mixer, which she got as a wedding gift. Haven’t ever used it but imagine it works fine.</p>
<p>I remember having green stamps, but I’m not convinced my mother bought anything with them. I do have a Peter Max beach towel that came from a gas station. It’s rather faded, but I can’t bring myself to toss it. And I like the fact that it’s thin so it dries quickly.</p>
<p>My mom got it in the 50’s. She later gave it to me so she could get new blender. I had it for years – I might still have it actually, but I quite using it because the cord was frayed. Blender worked fine, I just thought the cord was iffy. </p>
<p>I don’t know how my mom paid for the old Oster, but we certainly did use green stamps to buy just about everything when I was growing up. Wednesday was double stamp day, so that’s when we did all the grocery shopping. Then I’d help my mom paste the stamps into the books and when we had enough it would be off to the store to get whatever we had decided on.</p>
<p>I have a GE musterd yellow hand mixer about 35 years old that I still use. </p>
<p>And I do remember green stamps. Yesterday’s version of the card you now scan to get discounts, reduced price on gas for your car, points that lead to… whatever! Just like green stamp prizes.</p>
<p>I used to do the green-stamp gluing for my mom. I was 4 or 5, and she’d get me set up at the kitchen table with the books, a wet sponge, and yards and yards of stamps. I loved doing it – counting out the stamps, lining them up just so, the satisfying feel of the fat full book. Very OCD. I think this was the first sign that I’d be an accountant. Happy childhood memory. :)</p>
<p>I remember getting S & H green stamps with my mom and glueing them into the books but I don’t remember her ever redeeming them. </p>
<p>The best vintage thing I have in my kitchen is the copper fondue pot my parents got as a wedding gift in 1963. It has a stand with a tiny holder to put the Sterno in. I love it.</p>
<p>Jym, I, too, remember Plaid Stamps.The pages in the book were partitioned into ‘value’ sections, the highest value was 5 spots right down the center of the page,IIRC.</p>
