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Dibbons

Dibbons

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Pain in the butt really, but worth the trouble?

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LOL!

The little town I grew up in the mid-west experienced a doubling of the population every Wednesday when it was "Double Green Stamp" day at the grocery store.....

Used to be able to get some pretty good stuff....if you had enough of them....
 
Many years ago, I asked my Chinese girlfriend if she wanted to come upstairs to see my stamp collection.

She told me that philately will get me nowhere. :D
 
My mom saved them for years
she'd redeem them in at the drive-tru Dairy Outlet
over in Antioch, Ca. to get eggs milk butter ice-cream
we went thru them like crazy

I remember her having books upon books of them
 
yep I do remember my mom using them,dam we were poor but as a kid my mom made me feel like we were rich.
 
kiwigtx said:
Many years ago, I asked my Chinese girlfriend if she wanted to come upstairs to see my stamp collection.

She told me that philately will get me nowhere. :D
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You should have said "Ok then, how about i introduce you to my "little brother" instead". :lol:
 
"little brother" is Chinese slang for "man parts" for those wondering
 
Used to hand them out when people came in for gas in 1973.
If they didn't want them,(mostly men) I'd take them home for my Mom.
Women on the other hand always said "Don't forget my stamps !"
 
My Great Grandmother would collect them and then once a yr when I visited her, she would take me to their outlet store to buy things. The one I remember most was a tent.
 
When I was 11, my Mom used them to get me a Weller Soldering Gun for me to build slot cars. Thanks, Mom, I had a great childhood
 
Hell yes. I remember the wet sponge method to stick the sheets stamps in the books for my mom. Once in while she’d get the big stamp which equalled 10 little ones, if I recall.
 
I remember those, filling the books and redeeming them but I can't remember what we got for them.
 
We had them at the Service station ( when there were mechanics there) I worked at in High School... I was by myself pumping gas one day, and we ran out of green stamps.... An old man was extremely PO about it... I gave him a rain check for them...
The 74 gas shortage did Green stamps in.... We didn't need any " bait " to sell gas after that....
 
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I remember a gas station that gave out drinking glasses and washing detergent that did the same.
 
Dibbons said:
Pain in the butt really, but worth the trouble?

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My grand mother used them for Christmas gift’s. This is my rocking chair she gave me when I was 2 years old. 59 years ago. It has held up through me and my three daughters and five grandchildren. It’s held up pretty dang good I would say.
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Here in upstate NY we had S&H green stamps, but my mother saved the Top Value stamps.
 
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