Tupperware is Declaring Bankruptcy

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.

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Originally Posted by Alan

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.

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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.

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!

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Originally Posted by 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 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!

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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.

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

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.

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?

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Originally Posted by 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?

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Ziplock freezer bags

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Originally Posted by Tradd

Ziplock freezer bags

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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.

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