I accidently killed mine!
I was thinking about S&H the other day, wondering if you could still redeem if you had some leftovers. I never realized what you could buy with them though... I believe that my mother put them toward house supplies.My mother and I saved up enough Green Stamps, pasted them in a book and sent off for a HI-Standard ,22 caliber Ned Buntline "Special"revolver with a 9 1/2" barrel. I loved that gun and my Pa was a better shot with it than any man we knew using a rifle.
I can remember when you could order a Model A carburetor from Sears. Ordered a set of sealed beam headlights for my 1930 Chevy from Sears.Sears Robucks had alot.
Ain't that the truth! I ordered some stuff from one of those comic book ads, my parents didn't say anything figuring that this was a good lesson on "buyer beware". Don't remember what I ordered, but it was all crap. I do remember the name of the company, it was something like Honor House of Products or something similar.Every time I asked my parents to let me buy that junk in the back of magazines, they said the reason it's mail order is because if you could actually see it first, then you wouldn't buy it.
I remember reading an article in Popular Mechanics or one of those magazines that even if you were able to get one of those surplus Jeeps running, they weren't road-legal. Don't recall all the details, but apparently they lacked even the minimal safety requirements of the day, and most states would not let you register them.Army surplus jeeps for $40... I don't know the exact details but heard that what you got was a crate with a jeep in various states of disarray.