Tupperware has gone bust

Here we go.

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That’s it MissA!

Erm, what IS a muckle and a mickle?

Makes a mickle?

And didn’t our late Queen have storage Tupperware on her breakfast table - containing cereal? Many a muckle …

I still use my green Tupperware colander. It has ridges to ensure a fit over any size pan. Great to drain cabbage into it, put it over the pan (steam keeping it hot) chop the cabbage in said colander and then throw away the inch of watery cabbage water collected in the pan = no soggy cabbage. Great design.

Where do all the lids go, though?
It's a real puzzle.

I.remember the ball.thing, I'm the last and 74 born so depending on when it was created, it was either passed down (more like) or bought for me (very much doubt).

We have a few items around, missing their lids though. I actually have a long container in the tall fridge, about a 1/3 of a shelf wide (as you open the fridge) and as long as the fridge is deep (if that makes sense). I found it years ago and thought perfect! It holds all my cheese. Nothing special, just all the extra mature cheddar, whenever I see the big blocks on offer, I buy them and they go in date order.

Container wise, I discovered Lock'n'lock after being fascinated by a decent 'click ' seal. Bought a colourful mixed pack off QVC around 2014 and only actually used about 4 of them. They departed in a house fire and my brain kicked in to pay more for less! In other words "only buy the container for what I NEED! "

Now have a mix collection (ALL in use) of Addis, Lock'n'lock and Systema! You'd think that they are ALL in cahoots with each other NOT to do a same size re measurements! What is 3l rectangle for Lock'n'lock is not 3l rectangle for Systema.

I was after some storage a few months ago and I did look at Tupperware but it was the price that put me off. However, after hearing the news today, now's the best time to buy the pantry savers or the bread savers! Only problem is I haven't got space and we've run out of room to put shelves up!

Oh, I still have the set of "nesting" pastry cutters. In orange and white plastic - they cut "frilly" rounds and one or two shapes. I still use them at Christmas for mince pies - which I make with a star of pastry on the top, rather than a full "lid"....

Sorry to hear about it going bust.
It's the only company I was ever "head hunted " by. Nothing very grand really, I worked doing Pippa Dee parties and word got round I was good at them, so Tupperware got in touch.

Remember the days of Pippa Dee and Tupperware parties ?

Mine’s not gone brittle

😇

I couldn’t find a ‘smug’ emoji.

😀 (Only joking, I wish mine hadn’t, if that’s what happened to it).

Its not The Tupperware Lady, but tupperwarequeen.co.uk.
She has issued a video on her site to saynthst she is still in business despite the new today and will continue to be so while she can continue to source the products through a supplier.
All the latest items are in modern colours and materials, but still expensive. She used to sell vintage items. But I dont see them when I looked at her site just now.

Mamo - I thought it was started in Massachusetts?
Something to do with Dupont?

Tupperware parties were going strong until recently here in Crete. I attended one at the local kafenion that turned into a real village event. I must confess I didn’t buy anything though as it was really expensive and as previously said the same sort of thing can be bought a lot cheaper elsewhere.

I still have some old orange and yellow Tupperware stored at the back of a cupboard. I think they outpriced themselves really. You can get the same sort of thing for a fraction of the price these days - and more modern colours too.

I bought the shape ball as well as a lot of other items in the very early 1970s. I still use almost daily an emerald green vegetable strainer. Which will probably outlive me.
All very good quality. About 5 years ago I bought some new bright red lids for the "square oval" storage boxes from an on line site called The Tupperware Lady. I think they came from France. I don't use the boxes for food anymore now as I read they do leach chemicals. But use for non food things such as sewing stuff, dishwasher salt etc.

I liked the parties as I had newly moved into a flat and knew no one. I am sure Tupperware was at the forefront of women going back to work as many part time work for Tupperware led to full time management roles.

Sorry to see them go. But there is too much competition now and "parties" are out of date. It's interesting to look on eBay and see what is for sale and the vintage items cost a lot!!

We did a house and job exchange with a family in South Carolina when my kids were very young, for about four months. I was petrified when I saw the size of the cockroaches, and even worse, they could fly!! When I confessed my fear of them to a group of American neighbours, they laughed and said “Why do you think that Tupperware was invented here?!!” All dried goods were stored in Tupperware!!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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’ 🤣