Tupperware parties.

I was a tupperware rep over 45 years ago and still have a few items still in use.
When Mil died a few years ago and we cleared her house we found loads of tupperware items I'm still using them they are all in good condition.

None of the plastic containers you buy now are as good.

I too still have Tupperware; some is around 40 years old but my oldest pieces are 60 years old !! I was 17 and a few months into my first job in a Typing Pool. One of the older girls was getting married and invited us to a Tupperware Party to see this newly invented seal - well at my age I had no idea about homeware and half wondered if it was a version of Flipper !! Eager not to upset my new colleagues, I went along and won two large containers in a Raffle !! Still going strong.

Sorry about random capitals. Keep hitting capitalusation arrow on my iphone by mistake. Interestingly enough my phone recognises the word Tupperware! But not Oriflame.

I went to several Tupperware parties in the 1970s and bought a whole series of little round containers of various sizes , with orange/rust coloured lids which I still use - they stack well. I think the size of the present the host got depended on how much was sold so you felt obliged to buy something to help your friend. You were also pressured to host a party which i did once and got a tall round spaghetti storage container as a present. I don't remember any games. I also went to an oriflame party once. Don't remember Pippa Dee or Ann Summers parties - i would have hated the latter I think as I'm too much of a prude! I have recently been invited to a 'card party' by a neighbour to raise money for a charity which is important to her so said yes but don't know quite what to expect. Organised by Phoenix. Does Anyone know ABout this company?

I went to lots of Tupperware parties. Excellent stuff.

I worked for Pippa Dee for many years beginning when my children were tiny and I became a lone parent.

It meant my daughters were always beautifully turned out as I could buy the samples cheaply.

I still have a dressing gown that looks as good as the day I bought it.

Party plan for clothes died out when everything got cheaper in the shops.

My friend was an agent for Pampered Chef, but they're not selling in the UK anymore.

It was good stuff.

Thanks bartonladyyou are right?.

I stil have loads of Tupperware & you can still get it online. Nothing else lasts so long. I love it.
Pippa Dee & Oriflame!!! That takes me back.
I still get invited to candle parties. Don't go though. Over priced & not that good either.
Young Mums these days just go to wine bars to get together - much more sensible & probably works out cheaper on the long run too.

Got some Tupperware from the70's still using, but don't know if you can get in the UK now. I remember the pippa Dee parties and I used to be an Avon rep when my kids were little, now you buy it on line I think.

Think Annsixty you must have been invited to a Pampered Chef party recently. Good quality items but expensive! I still have Tupperware from 40 years ago!

I did actually get one replaced with no problem after the lid split. Used to go to lots of them when we moved to a new estate in the 70's. I remember going to one with my mother and she announced that ice cream containers did the job just as well. Look of horror from the demonstrator!

Tupperware used to boast a lifetime guarantee so don't throw it out if it breaks. Find someone who's still doing it! Direct sales (party plan) is back with brands like Jamie at Home for one. It's big business. I did it for a while but I'm just not hard sell material. The meetings (not the parties) are full of the babble of high pitched enthusiasm and I just couldn't summon it up. They go on for a whole day and I found it very wearing. I have a cupboard full of the stuff too.

I thought they had gone out of business in this country several years ago.

I went to Tupperware parties on my estate when my daughters were little - it was horrendously expensive back then, since we were all "stay at home mums", who took it in turns to be hostess, but we all chose the cheapest items and there is no doubt they were good quality.

I don't think that inviting people to a party on the basis you want to make money out of them is kind or fair. Still, I suppose people can always say no.

That said, my mother bought a Tupperware 'Party Susan' from a Tupperware party in the 1960's and I was intrigued and thrilled when she brought it home as I'd never seen such a thing. My father was less impressed. We never used it.

Anne Summers parties were a lot more fun. The hostess was encouraged to supply wine and , of course, no men were allowed. I'll never forget the sight of the glow-in-the-dark sex toys bobbing about on the coffee table. My friend, who was the hostess, was given a sort of raunchy basque, complete with suspenders. "Anybody want this?" she said and I, never one to refuse a free gift, stuffed it into my handbag. Later, walking around Sainsbury's I was mortified to discover that most of the garment had escaped and was dangling, suspenders first, for all to see.

I loved the Tupperware toys but you cant get them anymore well apart from second hand...

remember the silly games? one in particular I remember was you had pen and paper and drew a picture of a boat then put the paper on your head and draw a man in the boat, the one who got the man in the boat won a tupperware utensil.

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

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

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.

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'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!

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!!

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 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.