<p>I remember green stamps! When my grandmother had saved enough, she would take me and my brothers to the redemption center (in a town 30 miles away) and let us pick out a toy. Once I “bought” a beautiful Thumbelina (?) baby doll. I took her home, rocked her and put her to bed in my room. When I went back to get her, I found that my little brother had cut off all of her hair! </p>
<p>Green stamps were still around in the early years of my marriage, and I remember doing most of my Christmas shopping with them one year.</p>
<p>Anyone ever order from the Spiegel catalog? I still have and use a little kitchen step stool that I bought from the catalog more than 30 years ago. It is shaped like a little chair with a high back and a heart cut out at the top–a perfect handle to move it around and just the right height to help a short person reach the top shelf.</p>