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Subject: Re: Anyone having a Tupperware party?
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 20:31:38 -0400
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On 4/1/2025 5:11 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 2:41:16 +0000, Ed P wrote:
> 
>> Tupperware
>> ©State Archives of Florida/Florida Memory /Alamy Stock Photo
>> A chemist named Earl S. Tupper developed one of the world's most iconic
>> products – and it all started with a paint can. He was working in a
>> plastics factory when he came up with the idea of designing food storage
>> containers with air and liquid-tight seals, such as those on paint cans.
>>
>> This was shortly after the Great Depression, and Tupper wanted to help
>> families reduce food waste. There was just one problem: the containers
>> were so effective that consumers struggled to open them, often needing
>> to be shown how...
>>
>> Deciding to embrace the personal touch, the company began to sell
>> directly to consumers through Tupperware parties, an innovative
>> marketing scheme whereby self-employed salespeople sold Tupperware in
>> people's homes. The tactic paid off and Tupperware became hugely
>> successful.
>>
>>
> Hasn't Tupperware declared bankruptcy?  Or am I wrong?
> 
> But I remember lots of Tupperware parties when I was a
> child.  Also, someone passing around their catalog at
> work occasionally getting up and order.
> 
My mother bought Tupperware but I'm not sure she ever attended a 
"Tupperware party".  She probably did when I was a kid in the 1960's.  I 
do remember her giving me a Tupperware lunchbox around 1978 when I was 
going to work in an office.  The same little red plastic "lunchbox" with 
different sized containers that all fit inside appears in episodes of 
the TV show 'Young Sheldon' which was set in 1989 or so.  I didn't keep 
that lunchbox.  Perhaps I should have. ;)

Jill