Lost treasure found...

[gismo]

...in my basement. We've been going through much of the junk stored there in preparation for finishing part of the basement and I came across a packet full of 100 denomination S&H Green Stamps. Totaled up there were 11,300 stamps or equivalent. I googled and found that they are still redeemable. Unfortunately they haven't appreciated very well, the whole lot is worth $9-10.

 

[Jay Honeck]

I wonder if you couldn't sell them to a collector for more?

 

[TangoWhiskey]

...in my basement. We've been going through much of the junk stored there in preparation for finishing part of the basement and I came across a packet full of 100 denomination S&H Green Stamps. Totaled up there were 11,300 stamps or equivalent. I googled and found that they are still redeemable. Unfortunately they haven't appreciated very well, the whole lot is worth $9-10.

Yup, you can redeem them here:

http://www.greenpoints.com/account/act_default.asp

Get a stamp moistener. You have to affix them all to stamp books or 8.5 x 11 paper before sending them in. ;-)

 

[ScottM]

I loved those when I was a kid. I collected enough to get a racket ball racket when I was 13.

 

[Matthew]

wow - I'd forgotten all about those, didn't know they existed anymore.

Your post reminded me: way back in grade school, that we could buy savings stamps from the post office. Fill up a book with a particular value of stamps, then you could trade it in for a savings bond. I think that once a week we could bring in whatever loose change we'd found and buy stamps from our teacher. Don't know whatever happened with the book, or if I ever did get a savings bond.

 

[gismo]

wow - I'd forgotten all about those, didn't know they existed anymore.

Your post reminded me: way back in grade school, that we could buy savings stamps from the post office. Fill up a book with a particular value of stamps, then you could trade it in for a savings bond. I think that once a week we could bring in whatever loose change we'd found and buy stamps from our teacher. Don't know whatever happened with the book, or if I ever did get a savings bond.

Somewhere in my cache of treasures from the past I have an $18 US savings bond from the early 60s. Last time I checked (several years ago it was worth a whopping $25 or so.

 

[denverpilot]

There's one out there somewhere that a kind individual gave me once as a gift. He butchered my name, I promptly lost the thing, and even attempted to do that "recovery" process once, just for grins when they moved it online... but the name was way too butchered.

Nothin' doing. I think it was $100 and was one of those enormously high interest early 90's US Treasury Bonds too...haha... oh well.

Knew an accountant who knew they were a bad deal, but had built a habit of buying himself a $100 savings bond every payday for his entire 30 year career. He even stranger, kept them in a desk drawer. It was a big drawer. I'm not even sure that was all of them.

Great guy. He had every Mystery Science Theatre 3000 on VHS tape, recorded them all himself.

 

[SCCutler]

I should not be here typing, but what the heck.

Dear friend and client dies suddenly (this was around 2001 or so).

My partner and I met her friend / executor (my friend never had any kids) at her shop / office. Norma was a real pack rat, never threw anything away, and there was a huge quantity of jink there. The office was sized for ten people or so, had just her, and she sat at the reception desk because the rest of the office was full-up with piles of papers, etc.

We were looking for her Will, did not find it (that day), did find 3 guns, a bunch of envelopes with cash, totaled something like $12,000 (my favorite was a banded pack of 10 $100.00 bills, fresh, crisp and new, dated 1968, with a paycheck stub from 1968 in the envelope).

Then, Norma's executor found an old, greasy, crumpled Baskin-Robbins sack in a cabinet, almost threw it away, but my partner said, "Whoa!" because we'd already seen that Norma hid things in odd places. In the bag, we found the old-timey savings bonds, the ones that don't stop accruing, and the value of them all was something like $380,000.00.

Remarkable.