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dancerjodiWe went to a really fun Tupperware party last night. The rep has been selling for 18 years, and she definitely knows her stuff, knows how to work a room, and knows how to work with a diverse group (it seemed). Their stuff is pretty expensive, but I've picked things up here and there all in the pursuit of saving space, keeping food fresh longer, being good to the environment (reduce, reuse, recycle) and packing and moving awkward things.
At the start of the party the rep asked that we all introduce ourselves and mention our favorite Tupperware items either current or past. We really love the marinade container (both for marinating things, and for storing pizelles, given its height). Having bullet-proof tupperware is cool too (its good for heating up frozen veggies, or other things that would kill a lesser product). Hearing everyone's descriptions of past items used at home really brought back a lot of memories. Its interesting to think of how a kitchen storage item could hold such things:
-We had a pitcher with one of those buttons in the middle to hold cool aid.
-There was a narrow yellow pitcher that my grandmother always made her powdered (ew) milk in.
-There were the requisite 70's orange and avocado containers with the ribbed lid that you pushed/pulled from the middle.
-a large brown container had a white flower in the center front, and Mom used to use as a cookie jar. At one point though, it served as the house's sick bucket (gross), whenever anyone was concerned about making it to the bathroom in time.
-Mom had one of those marinade containers (they stopped selling, then started again).
-The coasters that the rep brought (retro) kicked around my grandmother's house and eventually made it into a toy basket in the basement that the grandkids would dig into at any visit.
-The seafoamy green jello mold - why, I have have no idea, we never made jello molds.
-The brighter green lettuce container that yes, the middle part always fell out of.
I'm a pretty sentimental person, so I have specific memories of most things in my home. Our holiday tree is a good example of this - 95% of the ornaments have some kind of story that I'll remember more than Brian will. Some of them I swiped from my parents house for various reasons dating back to when I was a kid, things my great grandmother made, or things that were on my Dad's tree when *he* was a kid. Our tacky 1970's star hails from Brian's past http://tk7602.livejournal.com/627679.html , some links are dead, here's a current e-bay auction http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6581291616&category=33842. I have fun going to these Tupperware parties and being reminded of how old objects can carry such stories (of course, this was only the 2nd I've been to). I think its another reason that I like That 70's Show so much, because in many ways my house looked like the Formans, my Mom dressed as Mrs. Forman, and my friends (albeit at a later time) had their basement hangout place, awkward adolescent sexual exploration, rock music and all of the craziness to come with that kind of stuff.
There's stories to be found in the mundane everyday life stuff that we tend to take for granted. I think its fun looking for, remembering and carrying them on in a time that seems so different. I wonder if years from now people will put old Tupperware bits on shelves and display them as antiques . . .
At the start of the party the rep asked that we all introduce ourselves and mention our favorite Tupperware items either current or past. We really love the marinade container (both for marinating things, and for storing pizelles, given its height). Having bullet-proof tupperware is cool too (its good for heating up frozen veggies, or other things that would kill a lesser product). Hearing everyone's descriptions of past items used at home really brought back a lot of memories. Its interesting to think of how a kitchen storage item could hold such things:
-We had a pitcher with one of those buttons in the middle to hold cool aid.
-There was a narrow yellow pitcher that my grandmother always made her powdered (ew) milk in.
-There were the requisite 70's orange and avocado containers with the ribbed lid that you pushed/pulled from the middle.
-a large brown container had a white flower in the center front, and Mom used to use as a cookie jar. At one point though, it served as the house's sick bucket (gross), whenever anyone was concerned about making it to the bathroom in time.
-Mom had one of those marinade containers (they stopped selling, then started again).
-The coasters that the rep brought (retro) kicked around my grandmother's house and eventually made it into a toy basket in the basement that the grandkids would dig into at any visit.
-The seafoamy green jello mold - why, I have have no idea, we never made jello molds.
-The brighter green lettuce container that yes, the middle part always fell out of.
I'm a pretty sentimental person, so I have specific memories of most things in my home. Our holiday tree is a good example of this - 95% of the ornaments have some kind of story that I'll remember more than Brian will. Some of them I swiped from my parents house for various reasons dating back to when I was a kid, things my great grandmother made, or things that were on my Dad's tree when *he* was a kid. Our tacky 1970's star hails from Brian's past http://tk7602.livejournal.com/627679.html , some links are dead, here's a current e-bay auction http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6581291616&category=33842. I have fun going to these Tupperware parties and being reminded of how old objects can carry such stories (of course, this was only the 2nd I've been to). I think its another reason that I like That 70's Show so much, because in many ways my house looked like the Formans, my Mom dressed as Mrs. Forman, and my friends (albeit at a later time) had their basement hangout place, awkward adolescent sexual exploration, rock music and all of the craziness to come with that kind of stuff.
There's stories to be found in the mundane everyday life stuff that we tend to take for granted. I think its fun looking for, remembering and carrying them on in a time that seems so different. I wonder if years from now people will put old Tupperware bits on shelves and display them as antiques . . .
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Date: 2005-12-02 07:07 pm (UTC)Re the lettuce keeper: I never knew they came with a centre post, ours must have been lost before I was aware of it. :)
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Date: 2005-12-02 07:37 pm (UTC)Here's a good pic of one on an ebay bid (ours was the same color):
http://cgi.ebay.com/TUPPERWARE-VINTAGE-ROUND-LETTUCE-CRISPER-WITH-SPIKE_W0QQitemZ6230081390QQcategoryZ11657QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem