I GOT yer Tupperware Li´l Wonders Snack Bowl Sets...swingin´

Funny story. I think Tupperware is pretty expensive, but what do I know? My mom still uses her orange Tupperware from the 70´s.

A few years ago, I was walking down a dusty street in a very small central Mexico village, turned a corner to find an enormous sign painted on a building wall: "Tupperware" with a phone number. I had to smile.

# 2, I still have/use several items of Tupperware I bought in the 70´s when I was just starting out as a homemaker. (Some of it IS orange.). In those days Tupperware wasn´t that expensive. It was a good investment, most of my stuff is more useful than anything you can buy today.

This story is hilarious! Talk about using your talents to make money! My favorite Tupperware item is absolutely the orange peeler. I refuse to eat an orange without one!

´´Aunt Barbara´´ sounds like a hoot!

Read the article--it sounds like it would be the funniest marketing party you ever attend.

Aunt Barbara is a hoot. Fun read...

Mommy, why are the hostesses´ hands so big?

Say what you will about the Tupperware Parties we attended in the 60´s and 70´s, but I am still using many of the items I purchased, or was given at my bridal shower in the late 50´s. My favorite mixing bowl is the light aqua GLASS bowl which came with two smaller pastel bowls. I didn´t know they still had Tupperware Parties. I haven´t been to one in over 20 years!

Since none of you will tell anyone, I actually collect the stuff. When ever I find a piece with its lid (and any other parts) intact, I´ll be having it. Thrift stores love me.

He found his schtick. Cool.

Now how do your relate the "you didn´t build that" phrase to this fellows success story?
Did the government instruct him on the use of makeup and God given sales talents? No. Did the government provide him with Tupperware sales training? No. Interesting.
An American success story, fellow brings himself out of poverty, (being a Social Worker taking care of the miscreant of society), pulls himself up by his garter straps and becomes a star.
I don´t misjudge him for his props, I admire that he uses them well in a Capitalistic endeavor.

"Oh my God, I love her," he says. "She´s like your favorite aunt — a little drunk, a little bipolar, and she can cure anything with hysteria."

"Aunt Barbara was always booked," Estevez says. "But it was worth the wait. She´s the Second Coming."

"I love you so much," he tells her. "I could become a stalker."

I am fascinated reading stories about people in the Northeast, New York in particular. Do you people REALLY talk like that to one another?! Even the men????!!!!

Great story and really funny. I have many fond memories of those Tupperware parties we had. I have, however, graduated to ´´Lock & Lock containers they sell on QVC. They are the best.

Ah! Memories of Tupperware! It does sound like fun. When my mother passed, I kept finding big hoards of brand-new Tupperware still in the bags. I know that she went to a lot of the parties (she had a friend who was a dealer) & she bought it to give for practical wedding presents. That was the year that EVERYbody in the family got Tupperware for Christmas. I´m a real purist, I like the fifties stuff the best & still use it - (I also admit to collecting fifties Pyrex)!

The gays ought to be outraged about this -- using the drag queen stereotype to sell plastic.

My mother still has her Tupperware pieces as well. I remember fondly the pastel-colored cereal bowls (with lids)), and her very large square container (with lid), which she often used for sandwiches on picnics (or a long train trip when we traveled from MN to Louisiana), or her marvelous dinner rolls.

You can find many vintage pieces of Tupperware, some of them "new" in the original wrapping, on Ebay. I agree that Tupperware now is very expensive. I´ve recently discovered the "Lock & Lock" brand at QVC, and I´m hooked. It´s much less expensive and the quality is excellent.

Very good, #13!

#16, your mother probably got trapped into the same situation most of the rest of us did. Friends, neighbors and relatives were throwing the Tupperware parties and it was considered tacky to attend without purchasing. So, we purchased. And stored in plastic bags for the next generation to find.

May I be indulged a third post? :-)

Here is "Aunt Barbara" on YouTube, presenting a new product: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtCSOtrl6g0

On a more serious note, one of the most compelling stories on the TV series "Cold Case" (of which I am a great fan), was called "Wednesday´s Women". It involved the murder of a young housewife who used Tupperware parties as a cover for her involvement in the civil rights movement; she and other housewives would meet clandestinely with black women, traveling from Philadelphia to Mississippi to host Tupperware parties on Wednesdays. You can view the whole episode on YouTube.

Thousands will be selling Tupperware tomorrow. The last line about the Grate & Measure grater will sell them like hotcakes as home defense.

Have to say that is a much better wig than Moochelle´s.