Tupperware is Declaring Bankruptcy

[LDAHL]

Don’t know why, but this news makes me a little sad.
Not as sad as losing Radio Shack, but still pretty sad. Maybe it’s a lost youth sort of thing.

[iris lilies]

Don’t know why, but this news makes me a little sad.
Not as sad as losing Radio Shack, but still pretty sad. Maybe it’s a lost youth sort of thing.
Dude, what are you, a 1970’s housewife?

just kidding you.

Tupoerware always overpriced and we didn’t have it when I was growing up. I still don’t have it and have very few purchased plastic food containers. I do have many of the food containers that I buy with food in them from the deli.

[catherine]

One of the first of the MLM businesses, and certainly fit in with its times. Tupperware parties were fun ways to socialize in the era of the suburban housewives, but not necessarily a frugal way because the guests always felt obligated to buy the items that, as IL said, were overpriced. I was a Mary Kay consultant for a short time. I absolutely hated asking my friends to have parties. The best thing that came out of that experience was when my daughter, about 12 at the time, had a birthday party with her friends and used my kit to make themselves up. That was rewarding for me.

But as far as Tupperware goes, I will always remember the little burp you had to give the bowls, and the retro flower insignia on the pitchers with the little pressure release on the top. I would say R.I.P, but they will probably live on forever in flea markets and landfills all over the world.

[ToomuchStuff]

Didn't know you could still buy it. I miss the plastic glasses my grandmother had, if they blew over when I was mowing, no glass to deal with.

[rosarugosa]

I was a bit saddened to hear of it too, since it's such an iconic American brand. We only own one Tupperware item that was given to us by my MIL almost 40 years ago. It's a small container that holds the grated Romano.

[Rogar]

I have a small collection purchased from a friend a few decades ago. I have to say that it's lasted. Then again, I guess that's what plastics do. Sort of goes back to "The Graduate" days, "Plastics".

[early morning]

Makes me a little sad, too. Memories.... My mother loved Tupperware - the 50s/early 60s stuff. I did not - it always smelled funny to me. We had a lot of large family get-togethers, so she had mostly the large containers that held a bazillion cookies, or huge batches of cereal snack, or dozens of pizzelles - a large flat cookie she made on the stove top, one at a time, with an iron. She also had some storage ones for general use, and the cereal bowls with lids. Funny, I never though it could have been considered expensive, as my mother was the queen of frugal. But really, were there other items like that out there at that time? I do have one of her square containers, still, and I use it to corral the lids to my smaller, cheaper and often free containers, lol. There are lots more Tupperware-type alternatives out there now, and they don't smell funny. :~)

[Alan]

There are lots more Tupperware-type alternatives out there now, and they don't smell funny. :~)
You just triggered a long repressed olfactory memory in me. As I read this I could actually smell those Tupperware glasses I was forced to use many years ago. :0!

[LDAHL]

You just triggered a long repressed olfactory memory in me. As I read this I could actually smell those Tupperware glasses I was forced to use many years ago. :0!

We had a set of glasses from a gas station (I think Sinclair). Back in the days when you got one with every visit. Whenever somebody broke one, my Dad would say “Time for a fill up”. It got old after awhile. I wonder if they’d be collectors items today.

[Alan]

We had a set of glasses from a gas station (I think Sinclair). Back in the days when you got one with every visit. Whenever somebody broke one, my Dad would say “Time for a fill up”. It got old after awhile. I wonder if they’d be collectors items today.
LOL, I guess I got it wrong referring to Tupperware 'glasses'. I believe they were called 'tumblers'.

You've triggered me again, as a teenager my dad was a truck driver and when he was on the road he'd always re-fuel at truck stops which gave away S&H Green Stamps with fuel purchases. He'd bring those home and my Mom would sit at the kitchen table wetting those things with a sponge and putting them into books. Those stamps tasted nasty as well.

[Rogar]

Boy, Green Stamps jogs a few cob webs loose in the old memory bank. We had a Green Stamps store down the block where you could trade in the collections. I have a Pyrex casserole dish hand me down that I'm pretty sure came from opening a bank account by a parent. I guess those actually are collectors items these days.

[LDAHL]

LOL, I guess I got it wrong referring to Tupperware 'glasses'. I believe they were called 'tumblers'.

You've triggered me again, as a teenager my dad was a truck driver and when he was on the road he'd always re-fuel at truck stops which gave away S&H Green Stamps with fuel purchases. He'd bring those home and my Mom would sit at the kitchen table wetting those things with a sponge and putting them into books. Those stamps tasted nasty as well.

All my Cub Scout and Boy Scout gear came from the Green Stamp store. Now Green Stamps are gone and the Boy Scouts are unrecognizable.

[SiouzQ.]

Get this, I'm on the ATOMIC LIVING:Mid-Century Modern Madness of the Atomic Age Facebook page and these young-uns wax poetic about every single mid-century modern thing they come across, including sticky, dusty old Tupperware items from estate sales.

I'm in it for the nostalgia and to quietly laugh at these young Gen-X and Millenials going gag-ga EVERYTHING from that era. I DO like a lot of quality stuff from the era and enjoy using select items to decorate the house, but would never do a period time-piece like these kids want to do. Some of these estate sales we go to in Albuquerque make me so sad when you go into a place that obviously hasn't had an update for 50+ years. The sculpted mustard-colored carpeting and the complex drapery systems with the interior soffit really skeeve me out design-wise, lol!

[Tradd]

Get this, I'm on the ATOMIC LIVING:Mid-Century Modern Madness of the Atomic Age Facebook page and these young-uns wax poetic about every single mid-century modern thing they come across, including sticky, dusty old Tupperware items from estate sales.

I'm in it for the nostalgia and to quietly laugh at these young Gen-X and Millenials go gag-ga EVERYTHING from that era. I DO like a lot of quality stuff from the era and enjoy using select items to decorate the house, but would never do a period time-piece like these kids want to do. Soem of these estate sales we go to in Albuquerque make me so sad when you go into a place that obviously hasn't had an update for 50+ years. The sculpted mustard-colored carpeting and the complex drapery systems with the interior soffit really skeeve me out design-wise, lol!

I’m early Gen X and I don’t want the old moldy stuff. Hell, I don’t like stuff from the 60s or 70s either.

[nswef]

We have a step stool we got with green stamps when we first married in 1973-

[ApatheticNoMore]

I just think: "good, maybe people are moving off plastic kitchenware (or at least off fully plastic storage to at least partly glass storage etc.), a little less microplastics in the world"

Oh yea tupperware didn't likely account for much of the plastic used but ... why would one want to use that with food? Also plastic sucks to clean.

[SiouzQ.]

My husband HATES washing my plastic freezer containers! We have moved to using Pyrex bowls with plastic lids for refrigerator leftovers but I still use plastic tubs for freezer ortions because they seal better. Unless anyone has a better idea for freezer storage of soups and stews?

[Tradd]

My husband HATES washing my plastic freezer containers! We have moved to using Pyrex bowls with plastic lids for refrigerator leftovers but I still use plastic tubs for freezer ortions because they seal better. Unless anyone has a better idea for freezer storage of soups and stews?

Ziplock freezer bags

[Rogar]

Ziplock freezer bags

That's what I use when I've used up all my plastic containers. I rinse and reuse mine, but if they are especially greasy or oily they are a nuisance to clean and sometimes get discarded.

[gimmethesimplelife]

Tupperware. I have a story about Tupperware. When I discovered back in 1986 that I could afford to go to NAU due to qualifying for maximum Pell grants and college tuition at that time having been dirt cheap in Arizona.....my Mother said, "Thank God, now you'll live north of Indian School Road and have a VCR and Tupperware." Tupperware has always been a big deal to her, a marker of being middle class and coddled from this citizenship. Slightly out there until I realized that her Tupperware is my fleeing to Mexico for dental work. Same thing, just different packaging.

And it IS an iconic American brand. Up in smoke under the forces of turbo charged capitalism. I wonder who is next? The restaurant biz seems to be on life support overall but Darden shares have been doing better lately. Maybe TGIF? Rob