Does anyone but me remember S & H Green stamps, or the Peace Patrol Savings Accounts?  (I'm giving away my age now, aren't I?!!).  After collecting quite a few Peace Patrol savings stamps, you could buy a bank savings bond.

Those bonds were worth investing in (I bought mine with those savings stamps and with some birthday money I'd saved for a few years). 

Even as an adult in my 30's I was still getting S & H Green Stamps when I shopped, which I eventually used to get a whole bunch of things.  I remember I got a Sunbeam Mixer (the big one with the stand mixer and the bowls, etc) and some lovely feather pillows, just to name a few things.  It's too bad businesses don't still do things like this. Instead, they keep track on your checkout list thing and let you know how much you've "saved" over a 1 year period of buying groceries at their store.  Big deal, at the price of groceries now, no one is REALLY saving a damned dime.

Maybe we should all band together and demand something like S & H Green Stamps again . . . I've heard worse ideas.  There are going to be a LOT of poorer people very soon, thanks to biden et al.