Re: Anyone having a Tupperware party?

On 4/1/2025 5:11 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 2:41:16 +0000, Ed P wrote:
 

Tupperware
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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