Tupperware - soon to be history?

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

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

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 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!

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.

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. 🤣

welbeck

i had kind of assumed that tupperware parties were euphemisms for ann summers or similar.
it seemed so unlikely that parties would be held around such boring items.
not my world.

😂😂😂

I did go to an Ann Summers party once, got persuaded into it by a couple of neighbours.

One of them sat with me in the corner all evening, clutching our pearls.

i had kind of assumed that tupperware parties were euphemisms for ann summers or similar.
it seemed so unlikely that parties would be held around such boring items.
not my world.

Vintage Tupperware has been fetching really high prices on Ebay for the last couple of years. The hipsters love it for their campervans.

I use a white lidded jug all the time and that is 38 years old. I think it was called a Mix & Pour jug. I have a spatula, the yellow and orange round containers and a big purple lidded box which came from my Mum’s house when we cleared it. I keep cakes and biscuits in it. Mum had stuff dating back 50 years, used all the time and still in perfect condition. She had bread bin, cracker storer, lidded cereal bowls, hobby boxes, lidded fridge jugs, butter dish and an orange thing that mixed drinks up. Most of it went to charity shops.

She held a party once and sales were so good she could pick the top prize which was a gold effect tea trolley! I can’t ever remember her using it as a tea trolley. She used it until she died as her “office”. It stored newspapers, pens, address books, TV clicker, phone, notebook, diary and was her pride and joy. I really did feel terrible getting rid of it but it leaned to one side and the wheels were wonky like the tired old thing it was. 😢

I wish the shape sorter hadn't gone to the charity shop when we moved.

My GC play with the Tupperware shape sorter that belonged to their 48yo uncle! I think it was about £10 when I bought it - an expensive toy at the time.

SueDonim

Seeing as we’ve been using it for 40+ years I don’t think stopping today will make any difference, Hetty. Horse and stable door comes to mind.

It does make a wonderful play resource for small children. Tupperware and some wooden spoons - endless fun!

I remember buying the shape sorter ball at one party. Lasted through all four of my children. And yes mine loved a couple of containers and a wooden spoon or two. Much quieter than my sister in law who gave her children saucepans and metal spoons!

The Tupperware container I keep porridge in is over 50 years old, still in daily use and still burps when sealed.

Seeing as we’ve been using it for 40+ years I don’t think stopping today will make any difference, Hetty. Horse and stable door comes to mind.

It does make a wonderful play resource for small children. Tupperware and some wooden spoons - endless fun!

Freya5

Fleurpepper

Callistemon21

Freya5

Living in Germany, Tupperware parties were a chance to get to know other service families. Great fun, and never bought every time. Containers and a serving dish. Alas no more. They were also more robust than todays plastic, and guaranteed for quite a while if I remember.

Yes, very popular with service wives as a way of getting to know people when you move around.
No, you didn't have to buy anything

The 'Sales person/leader' would always say things like 'your friend has invited you and the only reward she will get will depend on how much you buy. so please buy lots to be fair to your host' - kind of stuff. Cringe-worthy, and if you didn't buy you would be made to feel very mean.

We hosted parties for a chance to get to know each other, glass of Spatleser, some people brought a few things, others didn't, was never made to feel mean if we didn't. Perhaps we had nicer Tupperware reps !!

Perhaps we had nicer Tupperware reps !!

And us!

Even if some of the Tupperware didn't get used it proved to be a wonderful source of enjoyment for DD when she was tiny. I kept it in a big drawer in the kitchen and she would get it out, stack it 'cook' with it, it kept her amused when I was busy in the kitchen.

SueDonim

3lb, I think, Callistemon. Or 1.5kilo in new money. .

I fell down a Tupperware wormhole earlier after there was a link on a news website. The price! 😱

Oh yes, look on etsy or Ebay!!

Fleurpepper

Callistemon21

Freya5

Living in Germany, Tupperware parties were a chance to get to know other service families. Great fun, and never bought every time. Containers and a serving dish. Alas no more. They were also more robust than todays plastic, and guaranteed for quite a while if I remember.

Yes, very popular with service wives as a way of getting to know people when you move around.
No, you didn't have to buy anything

The 'Sales person/leader' would always say things like 'your friend has invited you and the only reward she will get will depend on how much you buy. so please buy lots to be fair to your host' - kind of stuff. Cringe-worthy, and if you didn't buy you would be made to feel very mean.

We hosted parties for a chance to get to know each other, glass of Spatleser, some people brought a few things, others didn't, was never made to feel mean if we didn't. Perhaps we had nicer Tupperware reps !!

My sister in law went to some kitchenware party some years ago, where umpteen different pots, pans and utensils were being offered. However a lot of them were included in a recipe the party-giver dished out - SiL passed it to me and it’s been brilliant when it’s been my turn to cook for 16 or even more at a BiL’s huge place in France - it’s called Curry In A Hurry - you just chop/chuck everything in a casserole and bung it in the oven. One of the other regular guests is a real foodie/ gourmet/excellent cook, and even he asked me for the recipe - it always turns out well.

I do have to take a couple of ingredients with me though - can’t be sure of finding them in the local Carrefour.

Still using Mum’s butter and cheese dish.
Wish I still had the jelly mould, cannot imagine where it went, it must have gone ‘funny’.

I’m not worried about what it was made of, we’re still here after all these years of using it.

I remember Dee Minor and Pippa Dee parties, where you felt obliged to buy quite expensive children’s clothes, then all the other classmates were dressed the same.

Letter in today’s Times suggests that the stuff just lasts too long - their salad crisper is still going strong after 40 years.

I don’t think I ever went to a Tupperware party, but I do remember a Pippa Dee (IIRC) lingerie one in the 70s, before I was married. I bought some baby doll pyjamas and promptly left them under my pillow in a hotel room in Dubrovnik.😩

Redrobin51, SueDonim, HettyBetty - everyone - beware:

'BPA, as well as arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury, are dangerous substances for humans, so if you’ve been using vintage Tupperware, the best thing you can do is not use them anymore'

theecohub.com/what-old-plastic-tupperware-containers/

I only ever went to one 'party' - felt obliged to buy a few things - and never really used them much. I felt awkward and ripped off. (I later went to a similar 'party' and came home with a table lamp I didn't even like).

I can store stuff in a saucepan or bowl with a plate on top. That suits me. I avoid buying or using anything plastic these days.

There are so many cheaper alternatives now. You don’t have to go to one of those parties,either. I couldn’t care a less that they are in trouble.