Tupperware parties.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

I know I felt really modern when I bought any tupperware

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.

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.

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.