Tupperware has gone bust

I remember those Tupperware parties .
My mother used to dread them as she felt obliged to buy something .
Tupperware was and is fantastic quality .
Those parties stopped and we had Colour Me Beautiful parties and lots of them !

What a shame! They were good products and set me on my journey as a newly wed

I remember Tupperware parties and Pippa Dee too. I dreaded getting an invitation to Pippa Dee ones as everything was a bit out of my price range 😁

I had a lot of different bits over the years, mainly because my sister in law was an agent back when our children were small, the two youngest are now 36.
But it was good quality, and I am still using a few different bits and pieces.

Jane43

I had a lovely Tupperware jelly mould with different patterns on the top, I used it to make jellies and blancmanges for children and grandchildren many times I over the years, it always worked perfectly when the jelly or blancmange was set and I took it out of the mould because the top was removable. I gave it to my daughter-in-law eventually. I had other pieces but that is the one that stands out.

Oh, I had one of those. Brilliant for milk jellies. I don’t know what happened to it, I searched in the loft but no luck.

I can only assume it went ‘brittle’ or something and had to be outed, but it was very useful.

It had a Christmas tree shape, a star, a rose…..

Grandmabatty

I believe the company wanted to keep it quiet, you know, keep a lid on it. However they couldn't find one to fit.
I'll get my coat

Are you here all week?

Calendargirl

Jane43

I had a lovely Tupperware jelly mould with different patterns on the top, I used it to make jellies and blancmanges for children and grandchildren many times I over the years, it always worked perfectly when the jelly or blancmange was set and I took it out of the mould because the top was removable. I gave it to my daughter-in-law eventually. I had other pieces but that is the one that stands out.

Oh, I had one of those. Brilliant for milk jellies. I don’t know what happened to it, I searched in the loft but no luck.

I can only assume it went ‘brittle’ or something and had to be outed, but it was very useful.

It had a Christmas tree shape, a star, a rose…..

Brilliant for milk jellies.

I used to whip a large tin of evaporated milk until very frothy, then slowly drizzle in a cooled but not set melted jelly made with just half a pint of water whilst the mixer was still going. Then set it in the Tupperware mould.
Probably not at all healthy but the DC and friends loved it.

Mine's not gone brittle.

I do wish I’d kept the simple Tupperware items I used to have. I did struggle to remove the lids from some of the fancier things though, even when I was younger. I’d have no chance now with my arthritic thumbs!

I forgot about Pippa Dee parties -the clothes were out of my price range .

Does anyone remember Weekenders ?

Grannynannywanny

As a young mum in the 70s I recall the seemingly endless invitations to Tupperware parties. Also Pippa Dee parties for clothing. Does anyone remember them? Just googled and found this amusing article about Tupperware and Pippa Dee parties.
popandcrisps.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/pippa-dee-and-the-tupperware-mountain/

I went to pippa Dee parties as well and bought pyjamas I didn’t need 😂

I too went to lots of Tupperware parties as a newly wed and even held one once. I also had several of the baby toys for my children, which I saved until my youngest granddaughter recently grew out of them! They then went to a charity shop. I still have lots of the storage containers, added to when I cleared out my parents’ house.
However, looking back I do think it was expensive. And a few weeks ago, visiting a French hyper-market, I was surprised to see Tupperware on the shelves! Still very expensive.

Still use most of mine. Great stuff

Grandmabatty

I believe the company wanted to keep it quiet, you know, keep a lid on it. However they couldn't find one to fit.
I'll get my coat

Love this! 😂

I was a Tupperware Party Host when my eldest dd was little (she is now 31) and I still have some in regular use. I agree though it was such good quality and lasted for years that people kept it and didn’t buy to replace, especially now with the cheaper alternatives. It is sad to see such name and company disappear though.

I still have Tupperware in my cupboards that I inherited from my Mum. Some of it must be at least 60 years old.

I can remember my sister in law being an agent. I felt obliged to buy a few bits - but I was hard up at the time and I can remember thinking they were very expensive. I remember the ‘burp’ - the vent at the top for getting air out. Seemed very ‘out there’ 🤣

I still have a few Tupperware bowls and jugs, and use them occasionally, when I can find the lids that go with them!

I hated having invitations to those parties in the early 70s as I was a single parent, I thought they were very expensive. However, I still have the shape ball as well as a few other toys plus the jug, apple cutter, beakers etc. It is the lids that finally break.
My ex French m-i-l give me three containers for my 30th, I cried, not with joy, later.

Tupperware and Pyrex, two brands we had lots of back in the day. A couple of house moves later am afraid have misplaced or broken most of it but still have a large Tupperware container and a superb Pyrex casserole dish with lid that has seen a lot of active service x

Babs03

I also utilise take away containers and large plastic yogurt containers, the sort like a plastic bucket.
I never throw away a good container. Tins that had biscuits in them etc., I always keep. Glass jars for jam making or keeping odds and sods in, my DH uses them to store different sizes of screws/nails in his shed.

I do exactly the same. Never throw away a container which can be reused for something else. I do have a couple of Tupperware items which I felt obliged to buy at a party organised by my late SiL many years ago though.

M0nica I confess that at first I tried to avoid them, but then I saw a friend's child with a lovely toy, a red and blue ball shape with holes you fitted different yellow shapes into and I thought it was such a lovely toy I grabbed the next opportunity to attend a Tupperware party.
the ball was bought for my son, but came out when the men had been drinking as a challenge!

My sister used to be a Tupperware rep but I was too young to buy anything. I remember our mother had a salad bowl thing with a lid.
However I went to a Pipa Dee party when I was pregnant with my 1st baby. I bought a dressing gown. The wrap over style accommodated my growing bump. it lasted for years and the dolmen sleeves with cuffs were very practical.
I was very sad when it got thread bare and I had to replace it.

I also have lots of Tupperware in my cupboards still and use it all regularly. We certainly had the ball with shapes for the children who loved it as we did at party time!!
Does anyone remember Hostique parties? & Baby Shower parties, my friend and I were agents, she did Baby Shower I did Hostique. I came 3/4th in a national sales competition and won a trip to Paris with the other top sales agents. Fabulous times away for a few days. Whilst there I was offered a county as my area patch and chose Devon, still here 53 years later and love my choice.

I still have the ball shape sorter. It's back in the loft now the DGC are all past that stage. I also have a set of red, blue and yellow alphabet cubes that I'm sure came from Tupperware. They opened up and had 26 little green figures inside.

I always managed to avoid hosting a party but I did go to a few. From memory thing always seemed expensive and there was lots of pressure to buy things. I had a mixing bowl with a lid for a wedding present which I still use and the bowl to keep lettuce fresh is in the fridge. Smaller containers were used when the DC took cookery ingredients to school but I decluttered those to a charity shop.