@BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole Loved those! Only seventeen more books for a swim mask and snorkel, sweeeeet!

@BrazenlyLiberal I hadn't thought about green stamps in ages! 😂

@GaryPoole @BrazenlyLiberal
Mom always saved these. Loved looking at the book and wishing what to get with them.

@CinnamonGirlE @GaryPoole

The Sears catalog had better stuff, but the S&H catalog had *free* stuff.

@BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole
Exactly. I miss the Sears Wish book. Amazon sent something slightly similar this year. I tried to explain to my grands what the wish book used to be for us. I may as well have been trying to explain living on the moon. 😂

@CinnamonGirlE @BrazenlyLiberal Still the greatest part of growing up in the '70s.

@GaryPoole @BrazenlyLiberal
And there were a lot of wonderful things about growing up in the 70's. This was fantastic.

@CinnamonGirlE @GaryPoole

My aunt used to give us her old Sears book. We'd cut out pics of furniture and spit-glue them to the sides of cardboard boxes to make houses. Then we'd cut out clothes & draw paper dolls to wear them and live in the house

@BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole
Sis and I did similarly. After Christmas was over and we would wear it ragged until the next year. Miss those days.

@CinnamonGirlE @BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole

Also Spiegel catalog. Just seeing all the fashion trends was exciting for Midwest girl.

@LnzyHou @BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole
My grandma always got this catalog. Yes, loved it too.

@LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole Never saw even one but it was frequently mentioned on old school "let's make a deal".

@MidnightRider @LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole . I still remember "Chicago Illinois, 60609."

@TR_forester6291 @MidnightRider @LnzyHou @BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole
That is crazy. I didn't remember, but it popped into my memory when you said it. Crazy how it was still there.

@TR_forester6291 @LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole After you typed it I remembered like Cinny, good one! I remember LSMFT Lucky Strike means fine tobacco, now it's Jardiance instead of nicotine, we've come so far.

@LnzyHou @CinnamonGirlE @GaryPoole

Yes, my mother & aunts were all *very* serious about Spiegel's. Sears was "maybe" - Spiegel was "now we're getting serious"

@BrazenlyLiberal @CinnamonGirlE @GaryPoole

Yep. I circled many an item as must-have.

@GaryPoole

We had no money, so anything we could get for free was fantastic. We'd pore over that catalog - the S&H Ideabook - like it was our ticket to the middle class. 🤣

@GaryPoole

Pour. Not pore. Pour. SMH

@GaryPoole @BrazenlyLiberal and the puce ones? I have the book, but not the stamps.

@DavidKMresists @GaryPoole

Those are the ones in the pic Gary posted. S&H Green Stamps was their official name. They were *everywhere* or at least seemed to be. In Chicago, we got one stamp for every 10 cents spent.

@BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole oh I remember them. I was talking about the puce stamps in The Pogo Puce Stamp Catalog, by Walt Kelly. I thought it was hilarious.

@DavidKMresists @GaryPoole

Aha. I don't remember those. I used to read Pogo every day, too. My memory isn't what it used to ... what was that again? 😃

@BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole it sounds like you mean everyday in the newspaper. His newspaper columns were collected into books. In addition, there were some themed books that I don't think came from newspapers at all, and the Puce Stamp Catalog was one of those. Also, fantagraphics.com has been reissuing the newspaper strips in large hardback books that are very well done.

@DavidKMresists @GaryPoole

Interesting! My husband must have had one of those books because he says he recalls Puce Stamps.

@BrazenlyLiberal @GaryPoole the old bx are hard to come by now.