Flashback! Do you remember....

<p>Yes… I well remember green stamps - I was in charge of pasting in the stamps. It was an adventure to go to the redemption center. My mom had a blender like that. I used it myself until a few years ago. It still worked, but I didn’t like the “electric smell”. </p>

<p>Lookingforward - My old hand eggbeater broke. The only one I found to replace it was poor quality and broke too. So I use the electric beater instead. Admittedly it is handy putting the beaters in the dishwasher. Maybe that is why the old, high quality kind seens extinct.</p>

<p>Jym, I think I have (and use) that same blender. </p>

<p>Morrismm, I think I have the same mixer you describe too. Makes sense as everything I have I got when I got married 36 years ago!</p>

<p>I also remember green stamps when I was growing up</p>

<p>I pasted and redeemed green stamps even into my 20’s.
I still use a wooden rolling pin sans handles, have never even owned any other, that I used as a teen. No doubt it was old when I even began using it!
I look at new ones every so often but then wonder what good the handles are anyway!</p>

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<p>Soozie, we probably went to the same redemption center. If I remember correctly, I think it was on route 73 near 38.</p>

<p>We had Green Stamps, but what we really collected was Raleigh coupons, from the cigarettes my dad smoked (which killed him very young.)</p>

<p>I do have (not from the coupons), a lemon/lime squeezer which he used to make cocktails when I was very young–not for me, of course. I still think of summer evenings and sitting out front at dusk with my parents when I use it. My mom was not much of a drinker, but would have one mai tai or gin/tonic on a hot day.</p>

<p>(Edit: that was vice-filled, wasn’t it?)</p>

<p>Very Happy: I have the same ice bucket. I got it from my mother who got it from her best friend when she was cleaning out her home before a move.</p>

<p>We had an electric knife from green stamps (about 33 years old) that finally bit the dust last year. I can’t imagine that the new one I bought at BB&B will last anywhere near as long.</p>

<p>I have some old metal utensils with wooden handles that my mother used. I especially like one that can be used as a spatula and a small strainer.</p>

<p>Ack! All of a sudden I got a funny, sticky green stamp taste in my mouth. Remember what a jackpot it was to find a “FIFTY” and be done with a whole page in one little stamp?</p>

<p>My grandmother used to smoke Raleighs and save the coupons, until she was at the beauty shop and saw an old woman with a cigarette dangling out of her mouth. She decided she didn’t want to look like that in a few years so she quit.
We collected stamps also, and my mom got some small appliances with them. We also had the catalogs at home and you could even redeem them for cars, but it was some astronomical amount.</p>

<p>Count me in with those who spent hours pasting greenstamps into books. </p>

<p>My mom still has the set of drinking glasses she collected, one by one, from the gas station. Well, back then it was called a “service station”. How times have changed.</p>

<p>Speaking of service stations, I have a collection of oil company road maps. AAA maps do not count, although I believe they are the sole remaining supplier of such things. Remember the fun of trying to fold them back up?</p>

<p>I also have a few volumes of supermarket encyclopedias.</p>

<p>My neighbor collected the glasses that came in Duz detergent- pretty with gold wheat design.</p>

<p>Latichever–I still use fold up maps regularly (not just from AAA). online ones are not nearly as useful (don’t even get me started on GPS’s).</p>

<p>Garland, my wife and my brother are diehard map people. They say they need the overview that only a map can provide. </p>

<p>I’m a GPS person. I don’t mind sitting there like an idiot being told where to go–maybe I’m just used to that from my wife. When we bought our last car, I said how about GPS? And she said, you don’t need GPS, you got me. (After I wound up on one of the few remaining dirt roads in our state, heading to nowhere, I got GPS.)</p>

<p>I just spent vacation time with a friend with GPS- and have to say, at some points, we spent too much time looking at the darned gizmo and not the scenery. She’d even turn on her blinker when the thing flashed the next turn- even if we were still quite a distance from that intersection. </p>

<p>But I will say this about paper maps- I remember the day I figured out how to properly refold- and how, that day, I thought I had made a giant leap into adulthood. I felt smart.</p>

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<p>OMG, that made me laugh! Thanks for that, latichever!</p>

<p>I love my GPS. But my 84-year-old mom <em>really</em> loves the GPS we gave her a few years ago. She calls it “my little man” and now she feels comfortable driving all over the place. I call it “mom’s boyfriend” because “he” takes her interesting places, and brings her home at the end of the night.</p>

<p>For giggles I sometimes change the language (when I already know where I’m going). But the funniest thing I’ve heard from a GPS is when it tries to pronounce (in English) “Kamehameha Highway” (on Oahu). It puts the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble so it comes out as “Kommy Hommy HaHa Way” :D</p>

<p>We had drinking glasses from “service stations” too. They were harvest gold with a kind of swirl design around the bottom. They didn’t last long in our house, between my brother and me. Our neighbors had entire sets of towels they collected from boxes of Breeze laundry detergent. I never understood that, though - wouldn’t the towel take up room in the box that could be filled with more product?</p>

<p>I don’t remember pasting S&H stamps into books myself, but I do remember my mom getting me a mandolin with the stamps. Not sure why; I never could play it, the steel strings cut my fingers.</p>

<p>We are also road map people… keep several in our car for states we frequently visit. No GPS for us. My DH also likes to request Trip Tik from AAA if going on a road trip someplace new or to see how they route us in addition to the online driving directions.</p>

<p>I have a handmixer that is 39 years old. It’s the dreaded avocado green color. LOL.</p>

<p>yeah, I need to see the overview. I like to know where i’m situated in relation to everything else. I think a GPS is a lot more likely to send you down a dead end than your wife is.</p>

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