Mail order Catalogues

[Oggy]

Green Shield stamps, omg yes remember them and like a treat going to the showroom to redeam the prizes, if we had enough, and the CO-OP ended up doing a very similiar thing too, and the petrol garages, freebies, and stuff to collect everywhere. My grandad Ernie collected Esso and Shell stuff for me, my dad got me the 1966 footie team, well small plastic busts, and a medal collection too.

[MommaMystique]

Grren Sheild Stamps.... a duelling insult!

add to that Green Shield stamps!! that was a long long time ago!!

As a qualified nurse who spent three years as a lowly student nurse...... we learned very early on that to call another qualified a Green Shield Stamper was a duelling offence. This came about during the war years when the need for qualified nurses was paramount and therefore the practise of crediting long service for nursing assistants with the post of enrolled nurse was commenced. So a Green Sheild Stamper..... was not really a trained nurse!


And of course it was a long time ago........I am almost 40 you know!

[sixtyten]

add to that Green Shield stamps!! that was a long long time ago!!

[MommaMystique]

The one we used to look forward to was the Benson and Hedges catalogue. Mom used to collect the coupons from her ciggy packs and save them up for Xmas. We would have fun poring over the catalogue trying to see just what we could get.... but rarely did.

[sixtyten]

Another thing I've noticed/forgrotten was that you could buy shotguns on the Kays catalogue!!
oh and a younger Vikki Michelle and a teenaged Nick kamen are models in an early eighties copy I have

[Oggy]

Oh yes now you're cooking on gas mark six, loved the toy section, used to pick out which i wanted, but rarely got, dare I say too, sheepishly used to flick thorught o the ladies underwear sections, well i was only young, all i can offer in my defence.

[sixtyten]

Surely I'm not alone in always wanting to be the first to read the new Kays,Littlewood,etc catalogue when it was delivered in the 70's??
straight to the toy section (always dissapointed with the summer edition).
being a retrohead,I often wondered If anyone still had any old copies of these,but the search proved fruitless till the advent of EBay.
although some of these can cost an arm and a leg now,you can pick up the odd scanned versions on Cd.I got a couple of these recently..good memories...CB radios,huge VCR's,Video 2000!! early home PC's and of course toys galore.
though now, at my age its just as much fun looking at the appalling fashions and homewear we use to have. we must have furnished our entire house via Kays!!!

The Seventies..truly the decade taste forgot!