What did you get when you redeemed your "Blue Chip Stamps"?

Question

Were these a regional thing? I grew up in So. Cal. My folks collected them from grocery stores, and mom redeemed hers for pieces of Oneida flatware.

Answer 1

I had to do all the l*****g but did never got anything for myself.   My mom got towels and things for the house.  These came from all the big stores and gas stations. I remember the redemption store.  We also had Green Stamps that came 1st.  

Answer 2

I remember my brother and I each got a red plaid suitcase we used to visit relatives in Detroit, Michigan. I can't remember if it was Blue Chip Stamps or the other ones (can't remember the name). I also grew up in So. Calif. Still live there... Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane...

Answer 3

The Napa Valley Ca. had Blue Chip stamps..I "bought" a yellow high chair for my newborn, and a white plastic covered living room chair.

Answer 4

We had s and h green stamps.

I got a tea kettle, a camera and an ice bucket.

More but, I don't remember.

Those stamps helped buy gifts, when we were poor.

Also saved Betty Crocker labels to cash in for fairly nice things.

Never heard of blue chip stamps.

DeeJay.

Answer 5

We had S&H Green stamps, too.  My mother was religious about it... she got many things, but the ones I remember best was the flatware set... and WE STILL HAVE IT!!!  I don't know if it was Oneida, however.

Have a Senior day.

Answer 6

I grew up in the Midwest (Minnesota) I don't remember Blue Chip stamps, but I know we collected S&H green stamps and Gold Bond stamps.  I remember a lot of things my mother got with her stamps. And I remember the terrible taste i had in my mouth from l*****g them! LOL

Answer 7

There wasn't much in our house that WASN'T from the blue chip store or the green stamp store!  Here's a list a just a few items I can remember...

Clock

Telephone stand

Gold vinyl padded hamper with matching

Wastecan, toilet brush, tissue box cover.

Kitchen glassware

utensils

canisters

cookie jar

electric knife

LARGE Salad bowl w/ matching serving bowls

tongs

All my toys came from the catalog.

All the bedroom wind up clocks & travel alarm clock.

The iron

The ironing board pad

the silly wall trinkets

the sillier bathroom wall trinkets...

Fish with bubbles that hung on the wall!

I could go on. but I think you get the picture.

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley.  We shopped at Big T Grocery Stores & got MEGA STAMPS!  I got the fun job of l*****g & sticking them in the books.  That was fun!  So much fun.  Those stamps were like money...we always picked them up & brought them home to Mother!

Answer 8

I grew up in the Mid-west.  We had S&H Green Stamps.

Mom used them for Oneida, towels many things.  Nice memory

Answer 9

I can remember a set of glassware, a twin set bedspread and pillow sham and a hair cutting set.

Answer 10

I had S&H Green Stamps. I still have two matching lamps and an ironing board that I got more than 40 years ago. One lamp is sitting next to me on my office desk right now. It was fun to look at the catalogs and try to decide what to get with your stamps. We had a store nearby where you could go and get what you wanted.

Answer 11

I'm trying hard to think.

I don't know why but I am thinking it was a toaster or somthing along those lines.

We had Blue/Gold/S&H. Lots of stamps!

Answer 12

Where I live(SE Virginia) we had S&H green stamps and Gold Bond stamps.  Green stamps were a better value, you got more.  Some of the things I remember our family getting:  a lamp, a clock, an indoor/outdoor thermometer, a "backwards" clock, a pipe/tobacco rack for my dad, a tray to hold the stuff from my dad's pockets, a ceramic ashtray that looked like a hound dog, a set of kitchen thermometers -- we still have all these things.  Other things:  wallets, perfumes, stuffed toys, sheets, pillolwcases, towels, blankets.  I recently found a bunch of these books in a kitchen drawer, don't know what to do with them.