Saturday, November 28, 1936
- Jill Johnson Tewsley
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min read
EDNA EXCHANGES HER GREEN STAMPS
Cloudy not so cold.
Morse + I went to to G.R. this
P.M. — Had my hair shampooed
cut + waved at Costine. $1.75
Bought paint for kitchen.
Selected an occasional table
as premium in exchange for
two green stamps books.
Marvin came home with
Hank to stay all night.
Before there were loyalty cards there were S&H Green Stamps.
Green Stamps were popular in the 1930s - 1980s, although they had been around long before 1930. Certain stores issued them as rewards for making purchases.
It took 50 stamps to fill a single page in a book. To fill an entire book, it took 1200 stamps.
Edna exchanged two filled books for an occasional table.
I remember my mom having a desk drawer filled with Green Stamps and books she was filling to redeem for merchandise. I am not sure what she exchanged her stamps for but I do remember going to a redemption center a couple of times with my parents so she must have gotten something good.
I found a few pages from a Green Stamps "Idea Book" from the 1970s to give you an idea of what you might get in exchange for filled books.
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