Does anyone remember green shield stamps?

We had them too. Like many others I don't know what my parents 'bought' with them. I think we got them from the International Stores and from the petrol station.

My mother smoked and collected the cards. I think she smoked cigarettes that began with a W. Walkers? They had a light blue and grey packet. Perhaps they were Embassy.

I'm another who used to be given (and enjoy) the job of sticking the Green Shield stamps in the book.

I think my mum still has some of the things that she 'bought' with them!

the esso sign means happy motoring.
i still have some matchbox cars from petrol coupons.
including a larger scale one of an american ambulance, complete with casualty who slides out, removal red blanket over splinted leg.
also a green vet's van with animals in the back under perspex.
kept carefully in a drawer. from many years ago.
no idea what i did or ate yesterday though. less interesting i guess.

I still have a few stamps in my kitchen drawer!! My mum gave me an ottoman about six years ago and they were stuck inside it!

My mum collected Green Shield stamps. I collected Embassy cigarette coupons and got a lot of items for my ‘bottom drawer’ with them.

Brings back memories, I used to enjoy smoking, I must have smelt awful!

Does anyone remember the Esso Coupons in the 80s, i saved enough to swap for 6 wine glasses and large tumblers, still have them.

I remember the Green Shield stamp shop very well. No-one in My immediate family smoked, our stamps came from petrol and supermarket shopping. However I seem to remember many families jointly saving their Embassy coupons to buy a cot for the latest arrival!

I can remember my mum having books and books full of Green Shield Stamps. Most of them having been licked and stuck in my me, which made me feel very important. Unfortunately, when mum finally took them to redeem them, she was told they were no longer valid! I can't remember what she was hoping to "spend" them on, just that it was an item that my parents couldn't afford to buy with cash. Such a disappointment!

I remember my MIL being an avid collector of green shield stamps. Woe betide if anyone came back from doing her shopping and had forgotten to ask for the stamps.

I remember my brother and I sticking pages of stamps into books. We were a big family so got quite a lot of them for a weekly shop.

I assume my parents redeemed them for something but I can't remember anything we got.

I remember them. When I married my first husband in the 70s we used them to buy a tea set and storage tins.

You are right, VANECAM about Argos and green shield stamps.

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/05/argos-story-green-shield-stamps-tesco-sainsburys

I seem to recall that Argos has its roots in green shield stamps??

Oh, yes. I remember all that licking and the excitement as the book filled up. I acquired a trendy orange plastic bucket and matching washing up bowl to brighten up my dingy bedsit. I was easily pleased in those days.

I saw a kenwood mixer piled high and sold cheap in my local Tesco, this was 1972. I waited until the following Tuesday to buy it, as you got double staamps on Tuesdays. This gave me enough stamps to get a really good prestige rotary hand whisk, for when I didn't want to use the Kenwood.

Nearly 50 years later both are still cookng staples.

You could redeem them for all sorts of items from household to garden. I collected them mainly on petrol in the early 70’s and used them to buy towels and some lovely red sundae glasses and wine glasses which were a great help for entertaining in my bed sit when I came to Bristol. There was a shop where you could exchange the stamps for goods.

I seem to remember there was also pink ‘shield’ stamps but idk who they were with.

I remember them. Were they given away with petrol.?
I think my brother used to collect them.

I could be wrong lovebeigecardigans1955 I also remember my brother collecting what I think were thin cards tucked into the front of a cigarette box. I think people could collect so many and choose a gift out of a catalogue?

I remember them, we had books of them, but if they were ever redeemed then I don't know what for.

Yes, I used to save them, from Tesco I think. I can't remember what I got with them though.

Oh yes. Loved sticking them all in. Can't remember anything we got with them though

Yes I remember them and I still use the yellow plastic laundry box, it’s hidden in a pull-out drawer. It’s ghastly but to throw it out for land-fill and buy a replacement, which also would not be seen seems a real waste.

Yes I remember them. Just Googled to see when they first came out. 1958. My first memory of Green Shield Stamps is from 1963. My future MIL collected them. When we bought our first house we used GSS in exchange for gardening tools.

I can't remember if they were Green Shield but Dad got stamps with his cigarettes (Embassy? John Player?) and I think Mum got stamps at the Co-op. During school holidays we sat at the table with a jam jar of water and a small brush to stick them in the book. If you sloshed the water too generously it would stick the edges of the pages together!

The John Player catalogue seemed very glamorous but I don't think even Dad (who was a right chimney pot) could smoke quite enough to get the loveliest looking items.

Oh yes. I remember having enough for a pull along tartan, shopping trolley. It was in the days before we had a car, and then the awful snow of the early 60's. I think I wore it out trudging uphill to town and back again.