Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blank Archives via Getty Images If you've ever riffled through your grandparents' junk drawers looking for scissors or tape, you ...

They were little green rectangles. And there were millions of them. Billions. Trillions maybe. Nearly every household brought home long ribbons of them with their groceries or sundries or when they ...

Stamps were issued in values of 1, 10 and 50 points, so sometimes a page could be filled with 50 one-point stamps or a single 50-point stamp. Green stamps were commonly found at grocery stores, ...