Brenda!
 

BABBLING and forgetting what we say is what we DO around here!! :D
You fit right in my dear!

Rae
:grouphug:

Sorry so late...
 

Hi all!

I'm sorry I've been AWOL for a lil while, I've been so caught up in being back home- and having Brinkley back! (my pup)...

Anyways, so my trial is over :( and I'm missing my SCS like crazy! But I hope and pray that my ins will be quick in getting back to my doc so I can schedule my perm implant!

Rae- In answer to your question, my aunt (who works for Medtronic) is not a rep, she actually works on quality control (I believe) specifically for the Medtronic Adaptive Stim SCS pulse generator.

and Mark- you're right, I have no idea what "S&H Green Stamps" are... lol, explain?? because you've got this gal LOST! ;)


Hugs to all :grouphug:

~Colleen :)

S and H
 

Hi Colleen!! It is good to see you back and having had a good trial. I, too, pray your insurance approval goes well and swiftly so permanent may come your way sooner than later!

OK- mystifying you on S & H Green Stamps. I am sorry to have dropped you in left field........

So, we engage in a little time travel, back to the time of my little person stage.... and NO, I was not born in horse and buggy days. Rather than confuse you more, think of the stamps as a "miles" program before airlines had jet aircraft. Most succinctly put, the internet says it better:

S&H Green Stamps (also called Green Shield Stamps) were trading stamps popular in the United States from the 1930s until the late 1980s. They were distributed as part of a rewards program operated by the Sperry & Hutchinson company (S&H), founded in 1896 by Thomas Sperry and Shelley Byron Hutchinson. During the 1960s, the rewards catalog printed by the company was the largest publication in the United States and the company issued three times as many stamps as the U.S. Postal Service.[1] Customers would receive stamps at the checkout counter of supermarkets, department stores, and gasoline stations among other retailers, which could be redeemed for products in the catalog.

So much for ancient history. It was really nothing more than a miles for spending program much as we have with credit cards today.

Mystery solved?
Older than the hills,:eek:
And twice as heavy,:eek:
Mark56:hug:

a nice reward
the more books you filled
the better the item may be
it was fun for me
i'm only 51 52 soon
it was when milk still was
being delivered and were in
glass containers
the milk tasted great
coming out of glass
the good memories
thanks

Mark...
 

Mark-

Yes, I was born in the late 1980's, so you were right to guess I was too young to remember the stamps. But thanks for the info! Very interesting!!! As you always are, of course ;)

So thank you! :grouphug:

~Colleen

hey you
 

So good to see you post....you are in the field of prayers for your quick approval and surgery....take care so you are in the best condition for it .

Now Mark told you some about those S&H stamps......they came out of a machine in a single row. 1's; 5's; 10's; 50's in value according to your purchase price...Now once you collected enough of these things you had to paste them into a booklet in the proper place--so many in value to a page--my Mom had a sponge and us girls had to do the pasting...once the books dried they were very stiff and we would tote them to the redemption store.
The catalogs were great for dreaming.
Nice memory Mark...thanks

take care Colleen
Johanna*

Pasting Stamps
 

Oh yeah. Licking stamps was the first approach I used for my chore. Then a slightly damp sponge was the better tool, as you wrote Johanna! Had to watch out not to use too much moisture, because this is the era before glue sticks and a certain white glue in a bottle was used more as nourishment by kids for some reason than its adhesive properties..... besides, the mess was awful.

Taking the stiff booklets to the redemption store was a cool event after having dreamt over things one could get. Nice.

Mark56:)

how true
even how at one time there was
a hand held gadget to put
the prices via a tiny piece of paper
you would manually turn the numbers
to set a price
oh how quickly things changed
with cell phones computers
flat screen T.V.
i remember what it was like
to have a T.V. break in those
days
we were bombarded on 911
small black and white 12 inch
battery back up with antenna
when most lost communication
with the world and then the went
and changed the way energy was
offered something along them lines
anywho they don't work anymore
not adaptable
thanks for the memories
GOD i miss so many of the old
school days
to be able to call an operator
dial "0"
or if you had a busy signal
trying to reach someone as it
would be important it was honored
oh man i could go on

someone who cares

Absolutely
 

And Eve?????

You know, those days AFTER the manual switchboard [yes they existed when I was little] there was this ROTARY Dial.......

The very origination of the use of the term Dial regarding telecommunication use......

I reckon the word Dial has quite a different meaning in the here and now.

Oh, where is Dr Who and the Tardis?
We could travel back and see memory inspirations,

Wow,
soon we will send ourselves via a fax machine takeoff :BeamUp:
Scotty cometh,
mark56:)

LOVING IT!

i will only watch the original
Star Trek

returning memories