Collectibles

We still have the wine glasses from the petrol station!

I collected Barclaycard points - every time I got nearly enough to exchange them for something I fancied, they changed the number of points you needed.

I never got my dinner service or much else for that matter. Obviously we didn't spend enough on our credit cards.

Green Shield stamps - yes, there was a shop in Plymouth where we could go and exchange them.

We collected Airmiles from Sainsbury’s. We had enough to fly all six of us to Milan.

It was my job to lick the horrid green shield stamps!!

We still have some petrol tumblers.

I collect Sajnsbury's points because that where I shop. We are doing well with those currently because we both have Sainsbury's car insurance and they double our points. We have £60 this year already. I usually spend them on the Christmas booze - we'll be paralytic till Easter at this rate.

Embassy fag coupons! Forgot about them! Now there’s going back.

An Arcopol pan with detachable handle from petrol station coupons. Must be 30 years old and still going strong.

're Green Shield stamps... A friend of mine went to the ante natal clinic during her first pregnancy and she was asked to give a urine sample in a little jug. When she'd "finished" providing the sample, she found there was no loo roll and so she dug her hand into her handbag to get a tissue and clean herself up. All done and dusted, she went into see the doctor, carrying her little jug. The doctor decided to do a quick internal examination and so she climbed up onto the bed as requested. But as she was lying there, both the doctor and the nurse burst into fits of laughter. In her haste to find the tissue, she'd managed to stick a Green Shield stamp to her self!

When first married I used Hornimans loose tea, in the yellow and brown packet, and saved the stamps that were on the pack, when the card was full the amount on there could be claimed.
In later years we saved Embassy coupons, hubby was a heavy smoker so we got quite a few things from there. I also saved Green Shield stamps, I remember getting an iron from there, we had to go to their place on Deansgate in Manchester to claim our "gift".

I have a set of table mats which my Mum collected free when she bought a box of washing powder (probably late 50's or very early 60's). They have a glossy finish which are easily wiped and cork-backed and look pretty good for their age. The only freebies I have acquired were china cereal bowls.

I'm sure I remember a brand of washing powder, (Daz maybe?) that gave away a plastic tulip or rose with the larger boxes. My grandmother had vases full of them! Hideous things they were!

The white tin with scenes of Paris, which has been on my dressing table with cottonwool in it for the last 50 plus years, came free with Daz and I got the first aid tin, still with some of the original contents, by collecting coupons with Dixcel soft toilet paper.

Before we married, I collected coupons from a cereal, maybe Shredded Wheat? and got a set of Prestige cooking utensils and hanging rack. They are now nearly 58 years old, and still used daily.
With Green Shield stamps, I bought my first wheelie shopping bag, that saw me through several snowy winters.
The petrol glasses are long gone, but I see them occasionally turn up in the charity shop .

When I was a student, I worked as a barmaid in a social club.
There was a offer with bottles of Whitbread beer. You collected the bottle tops and exchanged them for pretty substantial beer glasses with your initial stamped on them
I thought I was onto a winner and would hand over the bottles, minus the tops and collect the tops.
That was until one customer kept demanding the tops, as he was collecting the tops as well. It would get really heated. I realised that I wasn't going to win, as he always got the last word. We eventually agreed to share.
He was the only man I had ever met, who managed to get the last word. It drove me mad.
I eventually married that man and we pooled the glasses!

Maxwell House coffee used to have gifts for labels. We must have drunk a lot of coffee, as we got cutlery, a clock, thermos flask, tea towels and a nice radio, which we still have.

I forgot, Fairy Liquid used to (in the early 60s) give away a Wades Whimsy animal, sometimes a kitten, sometimes a bush baby, I still have 2 of each, they`re over 50 years old now.

Yorkshire tea. I saved coupons from the packs for a tea towel.

I forgot about the free train tickets from Persil. You collected the top of the soap powder boxes and got a free train ticket for each one you bought.
DH and I went to London from Glasgow with them. Half the train had them! The guard was not amused at all ?

I still have some Esso glasses and champagne flutes dating back about 30 years.

We collected Embassy cards (my mother smoked them) and Green Shield stamps.

Nowadays I collect points for a card system we have here in Germany, but I haven't redeemed them for ages, apart from a couple of small items for Christmas stocking fillers. I now have over 16000 points which I intend to use towatds getting a new pair of glasses, as there is an opticians chain associated to the card as well, but I don't really wear glasses much now I'm retired and haven't worn the last pair out yet.

Can't remember what we got with the cigarette cards back in the day but I do remember it was quite an event going to the Green Shield shop to redeem the full books of stamps.

I’ve still got the doll from collecting Kensitas cigarette coupons, she’s a pensioner now. I didn’t collect the coupons my dad did.

Used to collect the little men off marmalade jars.....not sure if we are allowed to say it. They were cute little characters and were collectable at one time if they were original ones.( I hated marmalade) lol still do.

Also going back a long time PG tips used to have little picture cards in and you sent away for the book to stick them in.I suppose a bit like the Football sticker books they have now.

When I was at school we all believed that any bus ticket whose number ended with a 7 was collectible. If we collected a million of them we could provide a guide dog. Don’t know who started the rumour but we collected them for ages. Grammar school girls. Not so bright then.

I still have the stainless steel cutlery from Kellogg's coupons, collected in the 60s. I also have a fairly recent Special K spoon.

Here's another couple who still have petrol station wine glasses!
My parents were both smokers, and managed to collect enough Embassy cigarette coupons to get a dinner service. Very nice plates and bowls in a pretty shade of green. We used them every day for years.

Anchor butter only stopped doing these recently. I have a red silicone spoon and a child's apron, which comes in handy baking with GC.

My dad smoked and he got embassy coupons which he used to get me a gold Saint Christopher ring which i still wear to this day .