Collectibles

Remember the Hoover Air Tickets Offer?

Narrowboatnan, I still have my pottery from Keymarket, most of it anyway, it doesn`t get used anymore, but is still in the cupboard, a case of waste not, want not. I collected some others from there at a later date, these were more lightweight, quite pretty, but only 2 dinner plates and a few small plates left out of the plates, but still have 4 cups and saucers.

Bought my then 3-year old daughter a lovely yellow tricycle with green shield stamps. She was so thrilled with it she wanted to take it to bed, so I let her (only ridden indoors due to rain). Now 49, but clearly remembers it to this day.
30 years ago bought gorgeous vegetable patterned flan dish with Shell coupons. Calculated had cost nearly £300 in petrol! Made very expensive quiches.

Got a Kenwood mixer with Greenshield Stamos when I got engaged about 46 years ago. Still comes out at Christmas (I don’t cook much now) and is still going strong.

Now I used the green stamps I got when I bought my special offer Kenwood mixer from Tesco. (I carefully planned to buy it on a Tuesday in order to get double stamps on my special OFFER) to go and get a new Prestige handwhisk, which I still have and use for whisking egg whites.

The mixer is still in regular use, I bought the liquidizer attachment and use that frequently.

We were both smokers in the early days of marriage, and saved all the coupons - Embassy, Sterling, No.6 - and I know we 'bought' lots of things with them but for the life of me I can't remember what they were! I do remember enjoying looking through the catalogues.

And, of course, petrol coupons, green shield stamps, co-op divi stamps.

When the children were young we had quite a collection of mugs acquired from collecting chocolate wrappers - Wispa is one I remember - and Kelloggs Cornflakes cereal bowls.

More recently, Tesco have from time to time given stamps that could be used against a purchase, greatly reducing the price, and I have several things in regular use, such as kitchen knives and bakeware.

I remember I just had to have lemon nylon fitted sheets from Green Shield stamps. Many years later it was mugs from garage, can't remember what was collected to get them.

I keep the M and S glasses which have had coffee, whisky and cream in them at Xmas. Once I have 6 (equivalent to DH and myself having 3 drinks each ) I give them to charity in case someone wants to buy a set of 6.

How little we had back then, to be pleased by a few free plastic daffs! ?

The Co-op gave stamps, I also collected green shield stamps.
I think we still have two soup bowls ( with soup recipes on) somewhere that we got from a petrol station.

Marydoll I knew that you and Big Jim had prior dodgy bar experience before you came to The Argy...and you are still paying for your drinks with those caps, they are blocking up the till!

Green Shield Stamps. Hmmmm. The most beautiful set of floral Bohemian dessert dishes with a large dish, still in constant use today, even go into the dishwasher. They have gone from UK to SA, SA to Oz, Oz to Belgium and B. to here in France. Love 'em to bits = well, that's perhaps not quite the right phrase but you know what I mean.