Anyone Remember..

Green shield stamps

Cigarette coupons

Co-op dividend number

Taking empty beer bottles back to the off Licenece and getting threepence back on each one.


I remember getting some nice coffe mugs (well like heat resistance glass) ones with little red holders from green shield stamps and other stuff I cant think of right now. Lol
Cigarette coupons I used to post by the thousands.......bloomin eck I must have smoked some fags in my time. Lol
I was very young when the Co op divi number was around, but isn';t it strange that number has stayed in my mind to this day.
As kids we returned loads of beer bottles, I probably said to my dad........go on drink another one. But at least it shows even all though years ago we did our bit towards recycling.

I remember those Candy, I remember me and my sister going to everyone on the street because they all used to give us their empty bottles and we got loads, enough to buy a couple of bottles or cherryaide and a few chews (yellow refreshers) Lol

I've got a few old tins (tea tins) in my loft full of old cigarette coupons and they are worth something now but I'll be saving those for my son. Hope they either keep their value or go up :D

I got loads of stuff from cigarette coupons. And yes, I remember the co-op divi number, my mum's and the woman next door's cos I used to be sent to the co-op for the messages. God, that takes me back a few years Candy. :D :D

Oh Candy, oh Candy, memories eh? I remember the cigarette coupons well, and like you i bought loads of stuff with them, in fact i even went to the place in Glasgow and picked the stuff and if it was too big, they delivered it for you as well. As for the Co-op Dividend, no i don't remember the number but i DID work in the Co-op offices when i left school at 15 and where i worked we were in charge of the Black dividend books, do you remember your book, they kept an accurate account of your divvy. I used to hate the week running up to the fair fortnights holiday, because everyone wanted to take their cash out of the divvy book, to spend on their holidays. My Mum always left her divvy to mount up and she only withdrew it at Christmas time. she had quite a bit to collect every year, if i remember correctly. A while back, i read that they (the Co-operative) were thinking of re-introducing the dividend scheme again. I don't remember collecting beer bottles but we used to go round the neighbours and collect lemonade bottles and return them, i think we got 2p a bottle back on them, a few bottles kept us kids in sweets for ages.



Candy, don't know about your ciggie coupons, but mine were Regal.

remember the stamps and cig coupens cant remember the divi thing but i can remember my mum saving co,op stamps as well we used to nick the bloody things and sell them to buy cigs

i remember going to the picture house and getting in we a jam jar..................bliddy hell i'm showing my age

Well the divi number was my mums too, I presume it had stopped by the time we grew up and I do seem to recall a book of sorts killie. It was Embassy cigarettes I used to smoke, then moved on to Kensita's, I think, cant remember why though. Lol now its anything thats cheap Lol

what do you mean by a jam jar morgan? well I know what a jam jar is, not sure about the connections with the cinema. Lol

on saturday morning matinee's, sometimes instead of paying money you handed in a jam jar .........whatever the reason was :dunno:

oh really? never heard of that one. we did used to go to saturday morning pictures as kids, cant remember how much it cost now but Im sure my mum would have rather handed over a jam jar. Lol

Jam jars and ginger bottles (thats pop bottles for the English ).........................we called them 'gless cheques'....................I remember them well. If someone gave us a lemonade bottle, we were rich.

mazzie wrote:

Jam jars and ginger bottles (thats pop bottles for the English ).........................we called them 'gless cheques'....................I remember them well. If someone gave us a lemonade bottle, we were rich.

@ being rich...... it certainly doesn't ring a bell with me at all. I wonder if it was a Scottish thing.. maybe? :dunno:

I used to collect green sheild stamps and the Coop divi.My Nan always had that so used her number so she could get the money to buy stuff for christmas.
Yep collecting bottles to take back to the shop...wow Candy you make me feel old

Candy wrote:

mazzie wrote:

Jam jars and ginger bottles (thats pop bottles for the English ).........................we called them 'gless cheques'....................I remember them well. If someone gave us a lemonade bottle, we were rich.

@ being rich...... it certainly doesn't ring a bell with me at all. I wonder if it was a Scottish thing.. maybe? :dunno:

The pop bottles wasn't a Scottish thing candy as you paid a deposit on the bottles when you bought them and got it back on return. I would assume it applied in England as well because everyone used glass bottles then. The same with jam jars. I think the problem is you're just too young to remember..............lucky you.

Yes I remember the emabassy no1 coupons the greenshield stamps and th co-op divi stamps my mom used to collect all of them in fact I still have all he beloved lead crystal glass sets she collect of petrol coupons years ago and I cherish them.

I remember my dad was a dart player and he won trophies and prizes, he won this clock the shape of aladdins lamp with different coloured fake jewels in it, my mom had been talking about these clock for a while how much she liked them. My mom ended up with two, my dad had hidden away the clock he had won as suprise for her and she went out and got the same clock off the green shield stamps.

Lol mazzie, Im not that much younger than you :shock: Lol but I will ask my sister if she remembers anything about it as she is a bit older than me. Maybe when we went to Saturday morning pictures together she carried a bag full of bottles and jars and I was just too bothered in getting some popcorn and icecream to notice. Lol

What a shame your mum ruined your dads surprise for her June. Funny enough you saying that I do remember my dad won trophies at darts too.

Another thing that came to mind today was black and white tv and those useless indoor Aerials where the only time you got a decent picture on the television was if someone was prepared to stand in the middle of the room holding the dam thing up in the air.

Hey Candy, that's right, guess who the sucker was in our house?

For us on this side of the Atlantic:

• 16-2/3-RPM records
  
• 3- and 5-speed bicycles
  
• 33-1/3-RPM records
  
• 45-RPM records
  
• 8-Track tape
  
• A "bad air day" was when someone ate beans or Mexican food the night before
  
• A "bad fit" referred to clothing or shoes
  
• Adjusting a radio, TV, etc. meant turning a knob -- not pushing a button
  
• Aluminum Christmas trees [couldn't use light-strings, for safety -- had to use a small flood-lamp with color-wheel]
  
• AM Broadcast radio that was more music than p**s-and-moan, I mean, talk
  
• AM car radios with one speaker [luxury cars had two!]
  
• AMC Gremlin [my sister had one in 1979, she should've never sold it]
  
• American Flyer trains
  
• An "uncomfortable workplace" was either too hot or too cold
  
• Archer Space Patrol walkie-talkies [27 MHz]
  
• A used anything still had years of trouble-free life remaining, because people took better care of things then
  
• Automakers who "won [races] on Sunday, sold [cars] on Monday"
  
• "Bowling For Dollars" [locally-produced TV program]
  
• "Captain Kangaroo" [childrens' TV program]
  
• CB radios, when everyone had and used them -- at home and in the car
  
• "CD" meant Civil Defense, not a type of savings account or music / data storage medium
  
• Chevrolet Chevy II / Nova [the real one, not the Toyota-built version of the mid-1980s]
  
• Chevrolet Corvette [when it was a sports car, not a yuppie-status-symbol]
  
• Chevrolet Luv pickup [built by Isuzu]
  
• Chevrolet Vega
  
• Children were never left in the car alone, especially in the summer
  
• Children's games / toys that didn't need batteries
  
• "Coke" was Coca-Cola
  
• Computers were inconceivable as automotive controls
  
• Computers were inconceivable as household items
  
• "Cool McCool" [cartoon, a parody of James Bond / Derek Flint / Maxwell Smart, et. al.]
  
• "Crack" was something in the sidewalk, on the wall, or on an egg
  
• Disney's "Wonderful World Of Color" [when color TV was still a "new" thing]
  
• Disputes were settled with discussion, or physical action if necessary -- not in court
  
• Druggists actually mixed preparations, not merely dispensed them
  
• Duct tape was used only for ducts and other AC / heat needs
  
• "Easy-Bake" oven [girls' cooking toy]
  
• Elvis Presley's death
  
• Evel Kneivel's death-defying motorcycle jumps [and crashes]
  
• Five-and-dime stores [Mott's and M.E. Moses here in Dallas]
  
• Ford Courier pickup [built by Mazda]
  
• Ford Escort [before it went "upscale"]
  
• Ford Falcon
  
• Ford Fiesta [a re-badged Fiat Strada, IMHO]
  
• Ford Granada
  
• Ford Maverick
  
• Ford Pinto [seems ever so often, Ford would come out with a new "people's car"]
  
• Ford Thunderbird [the real one, not the yuppie-status-symbol]
  
• Full-service gas stations -- where the attendant would fill your tank, check oil, wipers, tires, etc. and clean windows
  
• Gasoline trucks had chains dragging the pavement to bleed off static electricity [to prevent explosions]
  
• Glass pop bottles with 5-cent deposits [picked up from around the neighborhood and returned to buy batteries for pocket radios, see below]
  
• Going to the "mall" was a not-too-commonplace experience
  
• Groceries were bagged in paper sacks
  
• Having an "alternative lifestyle" meant that you lived in a mobile home [which was called without shame, a "trailer"]
  
• "Johnson" was a US president or a radio -- not a male body part
  
• Kids were taught in school -- not said to be "hyperactive" and medicated into a stupor to keep them quiet
  
• Kids would be home by a certain time
  
• Kids would go outdoors and find something creative and fun to do -- and not get arrested, in trouble, injured, kidnapped, or killed
  
• Laser- and CED videodiscs [they were 12 inches in diameter!!]
  
• Leaded gasoline -- in "Regular" and "Ethyl"
  
• Lionel trains
  
• Locally-televised professional wrestling that didn't look fake [Dallas area: Fritz Von Erich and sons]
  
• Low-to-mid-market stereo equipment that was halfway-decently built
  
• "Made In Japan" -- and better than today's other Asian offerings
  
• Mechanical clocks -- analog and digital
  
• Mini-bikes [with the infamous Briggs & Stratton 3-1/2 HP engine, fast enough]
  
• "Mister Peppermint" [childrens' TV program; especially at the beginning -- he was based out of Dallas]
  
• Mobile telephones that looked like a telephone ["common carrier" -- and you could legally listen to them on a VHF scanner!]
  
• Movie special-effects were photographic, not computerized
  
• Open-reel tape recorders
  
• Pagers were called "beepers" and actually beeped [and the only people with them were medical and legal professionals…and drug dealers]
  
• Parents could spank their misbehaving children without fear of arrest or legal action
  
• Parents didn't worry about violence in cartoons [because the average child didn't like falling from a chair or bike -- nevermind a 300-foot cliff]
  
• Passing airplanes would cause your TV picture to flutter or have "ghosts"
  
• Pocket AM radios [if your parents were affluent, it was AM/FM]
  
• "Ports" were for ships and airplanes, not computer connections
  
• President Johnson's funeral
  
• President Nixon's resignation
  
• President Reagan's "outlawing" of the Soviet Union [he was joking, but the remark was recorded]
  
• Putting aluminum foil on the ends of "rabbit-ear" TV antennas, to improve reception
  
• Radio / TV shops
  
• Record-changers were more prevalent than "turntables"
  
• "Ripcord" [both the TV program and the school prank -- untying someone's tennis shoes]
  
• Rotary-dial telephones
  
• S&H Green Stamps [given with purchases at the supermarket; collected and redeemed for merchandise]
  
• Sapphire styli [needles] that came with your record player -- which you upgraded to diamond when the original was worn out
  
• "Sea Hunt" [TV program]
  
• Sears & Roebuck's annual catalog [the infamous "Wish Book"]
  
• Slot-cars [the real Aurora Model Motoring / AFX -- not the cheaper Tyco]
  
• Spam was something you ate
  
• Spraying ether or pouring a bit of gasoline down a carburetor to start a stubborn engine
  
• The American hostages held in Iran for 444 days [one was a Marine from where I live]
  
• The Hemi [the Chrysler engine, not the yuppie-status-symbol]
  
• The only controls on a car's steering column were the turn-signal and gearshift
  
• Tubes [and tester!] at the Eckerd / Sun Rexall / Skillern's drugstores, and Radio Shack
  
• Tube-type radios and televisions -- and one could get them back to working just by replacing tubes
  
• Turner "+2," "+3," "Road King 70," and "Super Sidekick" microphones [popular with CBers]
  
• TV-channel indicators on the channel selector, not the screen
  
• TV stations came on-air at 5 or 6 AM, and went off-air at midnight, with the National Anthem
  
• "Whirlybirds" [TV program]
  

:D

I still have one of those open reel tape recorders lonestar................and the tapes. And would be believe....it still works...............sometimes.

here's a photo of it....... :smile2:

Some great ones there Lonestar

And stop complaining about your arm aching will ya killie you can have a rest at 12am when the tv closes down for the night. Lol

cant remember none of them

Candy wrote:

Another thing that came to mind today was black and white tv and those useless indoor Aerials where the only time you got a decent picture on the television was if someone was prepared to stand in the middle of the room holding the dam thing up in the air.

i remember my father having me stand in the back garden we the aerial tied to a bliddy brush handle, boy he was determined to get a picture on the telly i can laugh about it now but it wasn't funny at the time :shock:

morgan wrote:

Candy wrote:

Another thing that came to mind today was black and white tv and those useless indoor Aerials where the only time you got a decent picture on the television was if someone was prepared to stand in the middle of the room holding the dam thing up in the air.

i remember my father having me stand in the back garden we the aerial tied to a bliddy brush handle, boy he was determined to get a picture on the telly i can laugh about it now but it wasn't funny at the time :shock:

omg morgan the mental picture of you standing in the back garden with the aerial tied to a brush handle really made me laugh. Lol

I also remember as kids my sister and I got one of those open reel tape recorders each for xmas one year and my mum and dad had friends round for drinks and spent most of the night recording one or other of them singing bloody........oh Danny boy..........was funny, but dont think Simon Cowell would have been very impressed. :shock: Lol

when you think of it was all in good fun, god how things have changed if you asked the young ones now a days they'd probably tell me to stick the brush handle up my erse

morgan wrote:

when you think of it was all in good fun, god how things have changed if you asked the young ones now a days they'd probably tell me to stick the brush handle up my erse