Tupperware - soon to be history?

My friend hosted an Anne Summers party. I owed her a favour so I agreed to go. After about 10 mins it came to me who the saleslady was. The quietest girl in my class at Grammar School from years ago. It was long ago but I seem to remember ordering was all very discreet.

However, when the goods turned up my friend was sorting it all out and everything was individually wrapped in brown paper. There was one long thin box and my friend said “looks as though the glow in the dark vibrator has arrived for X”. We fell about laughing. 🤣

My mum was a Tupperware dealer. She had a huge suitcase full of it for demonstrations which I think she had to pay for from the first few parties. I still have some of it now.

I used to have a set of round cake containers my MIL gave me in an horrendous bright orange-very fashionable then though! They lasted ages and were well made but I let them go as I really couldn’t stand the colour any longer!

I love my tupperware, used to sell it at parties in the 90s and demonstrated by making something using it.
I still use it all the time and have way too much but still get drawn to buy more at vintage shops and car boot sales.

I still have the sugar container, the cheese biscuit box and an orange cake container.

I have just written an article about this - in Maltese, though. skoperta.net/2023/04/13/it-tupperware-ghadda-zmienu-tanja-cilia/

Yes indeed, a last from the past!! I have a couple of tubs, but have long since lost the lids, it was very expensive but I can now see it was very good quality!

I always disliked Tupperware. The first selection were difficult to open and even more difficult to wash clean, and all in the most hideous colours.

In fairness to Tupperware, it may have got better since I moved away from my parents' home in 1972, but I don't know as I have never owned any Tupperware myself, and my mother never added to her original lot.

I shall certainly not miss Tupperware if it disappears - the more plastic we can get rid of the better in my book.

I still use my Tupperware and some is 50 years old. My daughter and a friend wrote and sang a "Tupperware" song when they were about 7 years old. It is still sung and laughed about now.

Used to be very popular during the 70's. Never hosted a party, but attended several, and still have a variety of those containers in use a half a century later. I guess there wasn't much competition back then, but there's so much similar stuff now available, and probably cheaper, that the competition has done for them.

I’m still storing my flour and other dry ingredients in Tupperware containers and they are still looking good after nearly thirty years. I also have a few other Tupperware containers that are used now and again and the cheese storage box has been going strong for many years and is always in use. It was pricey years ago and I expect it would be pricey today. They used to have a lifetime guarantee - not sure if that still applies - but years ago you could change any cracked/split lids or containers for a new one with no hassle. I doubt I would buy Tupperware today due to the cost of it. I now buy Sistema containers and so far they’ve proved to be okay. Tupperware parties were a pain. You felt obliged to buy and worse still, you could get roped into throwing the next party!

Tuperware is very good quality , but over the years our containers are a nasty yellow colour and smell unpleasant .

I used to dread those Tupperware parties given by neighbours as I felt obliged to buy something .

They seem to trigger off a whole lot of parties :

There was the ex M and S stock party -the lousy quality stuff had fake labels .

Cabouchon - we were persuaded to buy their extremely expensive costume jewellery as worn by Princess Diana ! Some of it was very good and some broke - no refunds allowed .

Endless Colour Me Beautiful parties ...
my sceptical Australian and New Zealand friends were highly amused by them .
I bought the first book .
We weren't tempted by the scarves and other paraphernalia .
Everytime I went out I heard women worrying about colour choices and getting out their swatches .
One friend was hysterical in a shop as she couldn't find her colours in a huge department store and was about to go on holiday .

Then the Weekender parties .
I bought some of their clothes and never wore them .

At the Ann Summer parties , which were fun we all got really drunk on wine and laughed ourselves silly as a 90 year old neighbour bought a vibrator and a dildo and modelled the sexy underwear .
When we saw her husband afterwards we all laughed .
He must have thought that we were all absolutely mad .

grandtanteJE65

I always disliked Tupperware. The first selection were difficult to open and even more difficult to wash clean, and all in the most hideous colours.

In fairness to Tupperware, it may have got better since I moved away from my parents' home in 1972, but I don't know as I have never owned any Tupperware myself, and my mother never added to her original lot.

I shall certainly not miss Tupperware if it disappears - the more plastic we can get rid of the better in my book.

You had to “burp” Tupperware that’s probably why you found it difficult to open. A lot of Tupperware came in white plastic rather than the harvest colours like yellow, orange and green. There was a time when they did a range in clear plastic with plum coloured lids.

I have two orange boxes with fluted lids. Still keeping biscuits fresh after 30 years. I press the centre of the lid to seal. Also have flour containers which are 50+ years old. Soak them in Milton solution occasionally which restores whiteness. I enjoyed the Tupperware parties when my children were small. A big night out!

I tried selling it in the late 80’s. I was rubbish at it as thought it was too expensive and couldn’t push sales. I had to pay a fortune for the demonstration kit and so made a loss. I remember sending my son to primary school with his sandwich in one of small square containers and him coming home telling me that all that was in the box was a chunk of cheese! His sandwich was still in the fridge.

Oh my days… memories - out of curiosity just googled…

tupperwaredirect.co.uk/collections/frontpage

How expensive!!!

Cherrytree I too had the rolling pin, it was brilliant in hot weather. I wish I still had but it I lost it in a house move. I do still have some square boxes that I have had for 48 years and still use frequently. I did have a long thin container that the demonstrator used to make a desert with cream, ginger biscuits and a lot of sherry! (also lost in house move)

Well, going by many of your posts Tupperware was definitely worth buying with regards to longevity of use. I’ve just looked at current prices as per N4nna post, crikey it’s very expensive nowadays.
I’ll confess - I don’t have a single piece of Tupperware! I used to but charity shopped it all a long time ago as my shopping/eating habits had changed. No longer any need for boxes of cereal, etc. when children left home.

I still have the two things I got from my one and only invite to a Tupperware party! A long container for dry spaghetti , and my best friend …..she was the host ! I value them both highly.

I've still got some tupperware - nearly 40 years old. If Tupperware had diversifie and went into shops like Lakeland or JL it would have a better way to survive.
When I was a kid, I went to a schoolfriend's house and the wall was plastered with trophies - all for selling Tupperware

Absolutely agree with others about "pressurised" selling at someone's house. They definitely aren't my thing. Years ago an ex neighbour often hosted "Pippa Dee" parties (clothing) I didn't know how to extricate myself from her invites, she was right next door. Usually ended up buying something I didn't want. Seems to me there are umpteen similar alternatives to Tuperware in the shops without having to buy towers of the product under duress!

I am still a big fan of Tupperware and have storage boxes for dried goods in my larder which are 50 years old and still going strong. Some of the other containers had eventual problems with split lid seal but lucky enough to get some from my German friend. Yes they were expensive but in view of quality can’t complain and keep things longer than the cheaper alternatives. Recently saw a Tupperware Direct Facebook page based here in UK.

*True story*: These selling parties often had a fun quiz or game as an icebreaker. A friend of mine, having recently moved into a neighbourhood attended a Tupperware party hoping to make new friends. The fun quiz was about parts of the body, eg “bottom of the stairs …. “ (foot); “first person pronoun … “ (eye). When she got to the last question, “weather indicator on top of a church” she thought it was a bit risqué but joined in the fun, wrote “cock” and handed in her paper for marking. The answers were read out and she was devastated to hear the answer to the last question was “vein”.

I bought a couple of biscuit tin sized Tupperwares to support DD’s brass band 30+ years ago. One has disappeared the other is still going strong.

I posted with this news last week - I was involved in selling it, I wish it was still available - I’m still using containers I bought 40 years ago!