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Stamp Collecting

Our bank awards points for stuff. I don't know what kind of stuff, but we have gotten Starbucks cards every so often. I guess Famous Footwear does the same thing, giving points for buying shoes, which can be redeemed on a subsequent purchase, which is not really the same thing as the bank because Famous Footwear requires a subsequent purchase, whereas the bank does not.

This isn't anything new. Back in olden times, my mother would give me a few booklets and a box of little green stamps, some loose, most in strips and sheets. Eagle stamps. She would get Eagle stamps from one of the grocery stores. The filled books were worth $3.00 -- I don't know what she bought with the books or whether she just cashed them in. I didn't know how the system worked, just how I don't know how the bank works the points thing nowadays.

All I know is that my mom would give me the stuff; I would lick the stamps and stick them in the books, making sure I pasted them within the lines on each page.

She also collected S & H Green stamps, which were not as green as the Eagle stamps. The "S & H" was printed in a red script against a very light green background. The stamps came in various denominations, so that when filling the S & H Green stamp books, I might stick only one stamp per page, making sure I stuck it in the right box for the denomination of the stamp. More often than not, I was pasting a lot of stamps on a page, making sure I licked them wet enough to stick on the page, but not too wet, which caused the glue to bleed and stick one page to another, which was bad. I never knew how bad that turned out to be. I don't know what my mom did with the S & H Green stamps, just as I didn't know what happened to all the Eagle stamps I licked and pasted.

And I never thought to ask. And now, it's too late to ask.

Posted by Bill at February 12, 2008 11:54 PM