Green Shield Stamps

[philkool]

What was the first thing you got with your stamps ?
i got a dartboard and darts.

[cazzz1975]

I remember we bought a camera

[Buenchico]

My mother looked down her nose at Green Shield stamps. (With her, they were in the same league as ITV, secondary modern schools and jeans. i.e. definitely only for the type of people whom she perceived to be 'common'). So there's no way that they would have been allowed in our house.

Anyway the only place I know of which gave them was the Spar shop half a mile away, which we only ever used on our the way back from the doctor's surgery. (i.e. about once or twice per year). We didn't have a car so we couldn't have collected them from fuel purchases.

This link shows what, in 1965, spending £32 (over 5 times my first weekly wage, at the age of 16, in 1969) to fill a single book could get you one of these gifts:
* A set of six mugs in pastel colours
* Finlandia imported stainless steel tableware (8 pieces)
* A record rack
* A mouth organ
* A set of six lager glasses with gold rims
* A set of three pictures
* A cigarette box with a paisley pattern lid
* Stainless steel salad servers
* A gent's brush and comb set
http://www.retrowow.c...en_Shield_Stamps.html

Chris

[Garmard]

Polaroid Instamatic camera