S & H which immediately transported me in time to the 1960s, sitting at the kitchen table scouring the S & H Green Stamp catalog.
I don't think green stamps could ever have a place in our debt oriented society because we have built our empire on 'plastic'. We are all about instant gratification and I honestly don't think we understand the concept of saving up for something when Walmart is just a short drive away. Want a towel? Buy a towel.
Just as the catalog suggests, Green Stamps were the avenue to your dream purchases and they helped you along with their idea book. You would go to the local S & H store, get that catalog, and go home to fuel your dreams of need-to-have purchases.
It would take me days to decide which toy or game intrigued me the most. Inevitably I would change my mind mutiple times and I may not even have a final decision until I walked in the store. On this page? I would probably have chosen the paint-by-number, #7. I fancied myself a great artist when my paint-by-number was complete.