Anyone remember Green Shield Stamps?

Tiglath

For some reason, just thought of them. I remember licking and sticking them into little rectangular books, about 40 to a page, but I've no idea what my parents did with them when the books were full; I don't even remember the gift catalogue. Did anyone get anything useful with them?


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boultdj

In our family we just use to swap it for the £5 off the shopping.

PloddingAlong:P

My parents got a set of saucepans with them.

They still use them to this day, they are all battered up though.

I don't remember but I'm often told the story of green shield stamps.

madmoys

My mum gave me her full books as a wedding prezzy, I got some bathroom scales and bath mat !

suzybloo

My mum used hers to reduced the cost of shopping in the co-op. to keep us amused if you didn't have the big 40 stamp that was used for the full page, she used to get us to stick the individual stamps in one up the right way and then the next one upside down, kept us going for hours lol!

lemontart

got my first radio with green sheild stamps

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I got my first and only ironing board with them which I still use to this day.I got it in the late 1960s from the Green sheild stamp shop that used to be in Dartford.It is the biggest one they had and was made by beldray I think and is completely metal The only problem I have is getting a cover to fit it as its ex large.The last cover I bought about 4 years ago cost me over £17.00 but its a great ironing board and fantastic for sheets or duvet covers.My eldest DD had put her beady eye on it and has said when I shuffle off to the great kitchen in the sky she wants it as its almost indestructable.Before I had it I used to iron on a table with a blanket and an old sheet on top.I felt that I had really arrived with an ironing board,felt very modern and up to date :):)

Need2bthrifty

Many a cold winters evening was spent sitting with my mum at the kitchen table licking and sticking the stamps into the books.

I don't remember a catalogue but there was a shop in Aberdeen. It must have been in the early/mid 70's that my mum and I took the Bluebird bus into town and she got a bone china tea set, decorated with violets - it was kept for "best" and only came out when we had visitors.

It is still intact and sitting in my kitchen display cabinet.

Then we would go to the big Co-op department store (now John Lewis) and get clothes or other goods off "the divi" - would you believe I still remember our divi number :rotfl:

mishmogs

Oh yes, I remember licking and sticking! I got my one and only pair of roller skates from the green shield stamp shop in Manchester and I remember the Co-Op divi too!!

thriftwizard

I remember my Dad running the car right out of petrol in the middle of nowhere, having sailed past several perfectly good garages that didn't do Green Shield Stamps! And poring over the catalogue, deciding what delights to spend our stamps on; my Mum still has a set of glasses that they bought us.

TudorRose

In 1976 I remember getting a baby changing mat for one book. It did for both my children.