I remember these things from the fifties . .

OMG, I must be getting old, lol, I remember green stamps. I remember a picnic basket mom got with them, she still has it hahaha. I do remember the glasses in oats. And I remeber mom buying the jelly in decorative glasses that were just kid size, I think you can still get those.

We got the flour sack type fabric from the feed store when I was a kid growing up on a farm. We slept on sheets made from them and all my clothing was sewn from the goat feed bags until my parents bought my first store-bought dress for me to wear to school. We wiped the dishes with the "flour sack" towels. I don't remember any other premium things, but we did reuse everything. We fed the baby goats their milk from orange crush soda bottles that we washed and outfitted with attachments jerry-rigged to make them work like baby bottles.

I have fond memories of the 50's. My grandma also made me dresses and skirts from those flour sacks. I know those who are younger can't imagine a dress from a sack and are picturing something brown, ugly, and scratchy, lol. But what they don't know is that they were made of beautifully colored and patterned cottons. Living on the farm we got lots of supplies in these beautiful sacks, and Mom and Gramma started planning the pretty things that could be made from them. Back then we got lots of things with premiums. When I was single and setting up my first apartment, I remember getting pretty glassware, dinnerware, and serving dishes from a local gas station as a promotion. I had a service for 8. I also got silverware and serving spoons, ladles, etc from different promotions. I'm sure we all paid for them with higher prices (probably!), but the joy of getting these pretty & practical things overrode that. I had all of them up until years ago when I gave them to a family who needed dishes and all more than I did. I too remember getting the towels in with the laundry soap. Almost made us look forwards to doing laundry didn't it hahaha.

My mother would collect the glassware from Duz. I am amazed at how much this stuff sells for now. Don't you wish you had saved all that good stuff!!!!

I was born in 1958, so I don't remember the fifties. I remember a little in the sixties though. Our toilet was sort of an outside one then. We had a septic tank for sewerage, & every week my father would have to turn the pump on & get the stinky water out. I really don't remember what my Mother bought. I do remember it was exciting to visit the rubbish dump.

Ah yes, the good old days. We used to save Green Shield stamps and the pink stamps too, and the Co-Op stamps collected in a book. I used to help Mum clip the coupons from newspapers, magazines and cereal packets, these were used to get gifts for my brother and I for Christmas and we used to eagerly await the call of the milkman when he came round with his horse and cart so we could hand over bags of bottle tops for pennies.

Although I wasn't born until 1957, I do remember some of the things mentioned in this thread. I remember Green Stamps very well. My Mother and Grandmother both collected them and I remember going with them to the Green Stamp store to get their prize! I also remember products having glasswear etc in them. My Dad (frugal as he was) would complain and say, "The glass takes up room and they don't have to put as much product in!" *shakes head*...I don't get that logic! I remember a few of the jelly products came in a reusable glass with cartoon characters (Flintstones) on them! Great days...I miss them!

My Mom used to collect S&H stamps (I think they were called). She had books and books of them. I also remember the gas stations where you could get a mug or cup with their slogan or station name on it. !!HAPPY EASTER!! **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

yes you are right,i am not old enough but i can imagen.I think those where bad times but god times as well,Because now yo have more oportunites than you had then,but it is also good because you did not had so much polution.