If you've ever riffled through your grandparents' junk drawers looking for scissors or tape, you might've found errant S&H green stamps that've probably been there since the 70s. These stamps weren't ...

My mom and her mother saved 7 1/2 books to get us that swing set. Just three years before in 1966, my parents had saved to buy their first house. Money was tight, so, if my sister and I were going to ...

When I was in fourth grade, every household, it seemed, saved either Blue Chip Stamps or S&H Green Stamps. Every time you went to the grocery store or gas station, your purchase entitled you to some ...

I thumbed through a book of memories last week: a 1956 S&H Green Stamps catalogue my wife unearthed in her mom’s treasure trove of an attic. It didn’t take looking at two pages of the thing to have me ...

It’s been 40 some years, but we’re again collecting trading stamps and it brings back fond memories of Gold Bond and S&H Green stamps. Everyone collected the sheets of stamps, which they got from ...

FARGO — If you were to utter the following words to anyone under the age of 40, they might give you a quizzical look: “I walked away with a ton of green stamps from Red Owl today.” Those Millennials ...

I miss getting Sperry & Hutchinson Green Stamps. Recently I happened to catch a glimpse of two large 10-point value S&H Green Stamps wedged into the back of the drawer of my (very old) jewelry box.

Pay By Touch, a San Francisco start-up seeking to allow shoppers to pay with their fingerprint at the register, has bought the company behind S&H Green Stamps. Pay By Touch will pay more than $100 ...

SALEM, Mass. -- Once upon a time, there was money, and there were S&H Green Stamps. Green Stamps were the alternative currency of the booming postwar consumer society of the 1950s, '60s and '70s.

They were little green rectangles. And there were millions of them. Billions. Trillions maybe. Nearly every household brought home long ribbons of them with their groceries or sundries or when they ...