Remember when

How do you make pancakes on a 'phone????

 

Did we talk about the Blue Stamp competitor to S&H?

I don’t remember what state it was, but we moved there and they had blue stamps instead of green stamps. It happened when I was a kid so it might’ve been Kentucky or New York or Ohio or California… So many places…

 

Hahahaaa

Nooo… But I’ve been inside a jail in a ghost town with rusty iron bars.

 

Just hit the button marked "B", for booze...

And you're missing one "mad" Mr. Fitzgerald.

 

This might be exclusively a New York City thing but the "Grinder" truck would come around once a week. He rang a bell like the ice cream man and you would bring your knives out to be sharpened for $2.

 

I remember... Dad used to get the blades for his lawn mower sharpened by similar guys..

 

She would if she could...she is not much of a forum person...except for fb . I am one of a few that has never had a fb account or any other for that matter.

I don't think she does. She has trouble spelling with spellcheck off...lol

You lost that one Shauna . She said your welcome.

She's a woman, they can do anything...

 

In California we had both green stamps and Blue Chip Stamps. Almost every business gave stamps with purchases. I remember gas stations use to on occasion give 10 times stamps . In my first apartment I used books of green and blue chip stamps to buy most of my appliances and some of my furniture.

 

Now you simply use your store "loyalty" card, or a credit card that gets you points or cash-back you can use to "buy" things...
I think my folks traded in their stamps for a plethora of folding chairs back in the late 60's / early 70's when they started to be phased out / the public lost favor.

 

I am another. No other account than TW.

 

Me three... The internet is forever. Why would I want to give up privacy like that?
I will admit I have accounts for other topical / specialty message boards, but never had a social media account ala FB, Twitter, Instagram, TT, etc..

 

Same, not that Im planning something but that last active shooter in Illinois they looked up all his "like''s" on twitter.

 

I have a fb account but don’t post anything on it. An occasional like is about it. I too am signed up for other private speciality boards involving hunting, fishing, guns. The major thing I no longer use is the google search engine. They keep a record of every single search you’ve ever done and lots more. I use DuckDuckGo. They promote privacy and prevent tracking. They do not data mine like google.

 

I have a FB account but don't have any friends and don't look at what people put on it. All I use it for is to search marketplace.

 

I don't have any of that crap.

 

I have Facebook. I'm usually using it to post Star Wars, music, and cats. To each thine own but I don't feel the need to proclaim what I had for lunch.

It definitely helps with fangroups like some said. I went to a Misfits reunion concert in 2019 and hit a meetup with people from all over the USA and Canada.

I have a lot of "friends", mostly bc I use it to network for my second job. Free advertising.

 

Me too

 

Same