Are These Saving Stamps Common Back In The Days

as kids we fought over who got to carry the stamps home from the store and put them into the book. wow that was saving back in the day. can't believe how much has changed.

humor the other day my Dads tv broke, he call the repair man in town and he said 100 to come out and he thinks its the mother board and that would be another 100, so dad drove to Walmart and bought a better tv then he had and paid 149 on sale. he was in shock how cheap that was to go buy a new one. and wonder what the repair man does during the days now.

Hi, Jack. My post wasn't about S&H stamps. I was responding to the question about Blue Chip stamps.

Oh, I see. We had a competitor to S&H here in the Boston area called "Gold Bond". The A & P and Red & White stores carried them. My mother gave me a couple of books one time and I got a nice fishing reel for them.

Jack

Jack, I grew up in Oklahoma City, and we had Gold Bond stamps too. I just looked them up on Wikipedia, and, coincidentally, it turns out they were issued in the 1930s by a company in a suburb of Minneapolis, where I live now. Gold Bond stamps could be redeemed for things ranging from a set of steak knives to a mink coat. I learned something new today!