Tupperware parties.

I only recently disposed of a Tupperware box which I bought at a party in 1964 - 52 years is pretty good for a plastic box which was used most days (kept sugar in it).

I never went to a Pippa Dee or Oriflame party but went to a good few Tupperware ones. You won small items as prizes in the "games" they played before the hard sell started I remember.

When we lived in married quarters there was always someone close by having a Tupperware or Pippa Dee party. They take me back! I can remember the orange coloured lunchbox Tupperware used to do, everybody had one.

Oh happy days! How was it, when Tupperware was indestructible that you could always find a need for a new set of canisters, a measuring jug or one of those fluted mousse rings? (I had two!)
What colour lids did you have? I had the green and could kick myself for clearing it out when we moved because it "wouldn't have gone" with the new kitchen.

I know I felt really modern when I bought any tupperware

I still use some Tupperware that my Mum bought. I suppose it must be over 50 years old.

I hadn't realised that Tupperware parties were real; I thought they were an urban myth.

The ones I went to were rural absent and one of the most exciting things to happen in the village. Until, that is, the barn dance where the really on trend villager became liberated and didn't wear a bra!

I have lots of Tupperware that is still regularly used and most was bought when newly married as work colleagues were always having them. So they are 50/57 years old. They had peculiar names like "square rounds" and you had to " burp" them. Some of the games to win the prizes could be quite naughty depending on the salesperson and the party. I particularly remember the scramble to leave at the end so that you wouldn't get talked into giving the next party. Happy days.

When my children were little, and I had to give up my teaching job, I supplemented my income by being a Tupperware lady. I was the one who used to come to your house with a case of samples, show you how to use them (yes! burp!) and give a demonstration.

If those were large mousse rings with a large seal at one end and a small one at the other Alea they were great for making a Raspberry Charlotte - one of my favourite demos.

Then I'd take your orders away, after first booking at least another 'party' and return with the orders 10 days later. The hostess often got a substantial gift too.

I still use some of the Tupperware I bought over the years. My ex sis in law was a rep for them while her children were small so I probably bought more than was needed lol. She had boxes and boxes of samples in her garage for ages after she'd given up selling.
There was a round of selling parties, at one time you seemed to be invited to one of some type nearly every week. Clothes, jewellery, cross stitch, Avon, kitchen equipment of some type. Now you don't see any of them.

A couple of years ago I was invited to a neighbour's house for a "cooking utensil" party but I can't remember the name. It was very expensive and the company closed but I think was American.I bought a parmesan grater, the cheapest thing on offer.

Like Alima, there was always someone on the 'married patch' having a Tupperware party. I seemed to have cupboards full of the stuff, including the fluted mousse ring, lolly moulds, bowls with 'burp' lids, cereal containers, but the thing I used for longest was a kind of round tray with three sections and a little handle that you screwed into the centre when you weren't using the lid. I used it for years and years, especially when we were having curry, to put various "sides" in - and then, just before we moved five years ago, it disappeared! I really miss it.

I have a Tupperware cake saver that I must have had for about 30 years and its very reliable and clips together crisply. It only gets to be used at Xmas but its fine. I haven't heard of a Tupperware party for years or any other home based sales 'parties' thankfully I hated them and being asked to them- you ha to buy something. The last one I went to was a Professional Chef and I bought a large solid Pyrex jug with a lid - also about 20 years old I use it for soup storage in the fridge several times a week so both items pad for themselves in the end.

I still have some Tupperware from the 70's. I have to say, it's better than any modern day equivalents except the lock & lock products. I still have the big containers for flour and baking products and I used the tiny bowls first for feeding my babies weaning foods and latterly for cat food.

Somewhere in the house I still have their plastic bricks and the shape sorter ball toys. Ds1, for whom they were bought, is now 41!

We still have some of the small bowls and use the daily (or at least my partner does)

In the seventies we lived in a police house on an estate, I received invites to every Tupperware/pippa Dee / jewellery party being held , no matter I didn't even know the hostesses. Had to accept for fear of offending , nightmare

I still have the metal casserole dish with lid that I got as a thank you for giving a Tupperware party - it depended on the sales on the night as to what gift you got. That was in 1974 and I still use it and my other Tupperware boxes, dishes, cake saver etc. to this day. I too used to love the little prizes for the games at the beginning of the evening and I still use the yellow thing for peeling oranges (don't know what its called). Those were the days. I haven't been to one since that time but have been to a few Avon parties, but not recently. I also really love the lock and lock which seems to have replaced Tupperware.

Only went to one Tupperware party, about 45 years ago. I remember the demonstrator showing us how to make a Charlotte Rouse - haven't made one yet. But I do have one Tupperware container inherited from ex-mother-in-law, which must be an antique.

i went to tupperware parties although i never had one of my own and i've still got my tupperware boxed in a cupboard as i haven't got room to put it in my kitchen cupboards. i remember the lolly moulds and i've got a picnic set - bowl with a lid and matching mug in yellow, green, white and orange so that every member of the family knew which meal was which [we used them for salad] and there were little bowls with lids too to match ........... might get them out for eating in the garden this summer.
i bought many things from tupperware parties - you didn't feel right not buying anything - and i've also got one or two of the little gifts that you used to get - the one which is most used is a yellow egg-shaped utensil with a handle for taking soft boiled eggs out of the boiling water. very useful that.
i also used to have invites to pippadee and oriflame - think i had an oriflame party but didn't have many guests.
i've still got one of the pippadee purchases - a black nylon [i think] kaftan which gets used now and again as a dressing gown .......... it must be getting on for 40 years old now!!

I've been lucky enough to avoid any of these parties!
A friend recently went with her daughter to an Ann Summers party and was most shocked at some of the games they had, and at the lively participation of her daughter!

absent, Tupperware parties were a really big thing here in NZ from the mid 70's on and I even bought some new measuring cups in 2008. I must admit that I hadn't realised that the stuff was still around then.

I am at my holiday home in France. My neighbour's daughter has just delivered a catalogue for Tupperware! I can't believe the prices. Just a large cake box sized container is nearly 100 euros! A set of boxes 170 euros!!The cheapest thing I could find to buy, to support my lovely neighbour's daughter, is a little concertina plastic icing thing with four nozzles and its 24 euros. It is good stuff, and like others have said, it lasts, so I will be icing cupcakes forever.

Just bought an orange lunch box ...with road signs on the back...from a vintage store! My daughter will love it..her era .

I still have Tupperware from the 1970' s it even goes into the dishwasher. Things were made to last back then!