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From: Ruth Barton <>
Subject: Re: Green Stamps
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 06:48:07 -0700
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In the movie, "A Christmas Story" the father was all excited over the lamp
he won for some contest or other. The lamp that was a woman's leg with
fishnet stocking. I saw one of those in somebody's garage one day and
wanted to buy it but it was not for sale. Ruth


At 8:11 PM -0700 9/23/00, Mary wrote:
>Hello,
> I don't remember points at the drug store, but I do remember green
>stamps and weren't there gold bond stamps somewhere in there too? Also,
>they still have Betty Crocker points. All the relatives used to save them
>for my one aunt whose standard wedding present was a set of free
>silverware. It took a long time and a group effort to accomplish this.
>Now nothing in the catalog is actually free....not even for hundreds of
>points. I thought it was free anyway for a certain number of points.
>Maybe I misunderstood the whole thing.
> I remember getting some things with green stamps myself....a
>highchair for my son, for instance. OK, he is 30 now. Oh, well.
> Do you remember when they used to have many contests for creating a
>winning jingle for some product? My dad's big win in his lifetime was a
>box of Dentyne gum for sending in such a jingle. I'm sure this meant he
>did NOT win first prize. Mary in Cleveland
--
Ruth Barton

Westminster, VT
Remember in November

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