Tupperware has gone bust

One of my lovely friends in America used to occasionally (if prompted) do a little "skit" on the "egg-pot." This was apparently the perfect container for taking a single hard boiled egg from place to place.

I can't hear or read the word Tupperware without thinking of her.

Vintage Tupperware isn't all safe to use as it often had what we now know to be cancerous chemicals in it.
The chemicals included lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, and BPA. They can leach into food and obviously are not suitable for babies.

If you want to check if your Tupperware is BPA-free, check the bottom of the container. Any number 1 through 6 means it is BPA-free, but a 7 means there might be BPA in that product.

I don't know how to check for other chemicals to be honest.

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 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.

Here are my heroic survivors- crackers tub and 🧵 stuff, 45 years old!

I only ever went to one party where I felt obliged to purchase something . Came away with a 'rice cooker' - never did get rice to cook in it

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

We had one f those, the DC then the DGC all enjoyed playing with it.

The first Tupperware party I went to was when I'd been married for just a fortnight, had moved somewhere new and one of the other wives in married quarters thought it would be a good opportunity for me to meet others.
I still use some of the containers I bought thst evening.

The jelly mould, GrannyGravy! I haven't used it for years, but it was a very clever idea. 😀

Reusable takeaway boxes are great for storage and putting stuff in the freezer .... I have a pile of them in my cupboard. They must have taken a lot of the trade from Tupperware?
The parties were fun but not as 'surprising' (and shocking) as Ann Summers parties.

Amazingly durable stuff and very well made. It's a pity that they were driven out by cheaper (and probably inferior) imitations, although some people still call any plastic lidded food container Tupperware. Yes, I do remember that toy, and the Tupperware parties.

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

Like many of you I am also still using tupperware. My aunt was an agent(?) - she sold the stuff - and was for ever asking me to host yet another 'party' because the more parties she organised the more money she earned.
Quite frankly I think by the time she finished she'd spent more on buying items for herself than she earned.
Sorry to see it go after all these years.

Tupperware lasting forever with much cheaper alternatives now available have brought about Tupperware's demise. I found the little gadgets they gave out at parties were really useful.

That is a shame, as an RAF wife we attended and had plenty of these parties, good social occasions and I too got the shape ball amongst other items, non left now though.

Oh those Tupperware parties!
The plastic cups with sealable lids and lettuce crisper containers.
I suppose it is because every store now does a cheaper version of it, and also plastic is no longer popular.

Fond memories of Tupperware Parties, I still a e the blue and red shape sorter ball along with the newer version which is pale blue and violet.

I use Tupperware containers in my dry store cupboard for rice, flours, sugar dried fruit etc, along with their jelly mould and many more.

What a shame.