Assets: $680 million, debt: $1.2 billion

Yes shocking that Tupperware just hadn't been bought out...

There have since been many, many competitors in the plastic storage business for food and other durable goods... Like, look at Rubbermaid, which was the brand I'd seen quickly follow...

Someone at this point, Sealed Their Fate...

-- Dave

My mom threw a number of Tupperware parties when I was a kid.  She was an early adopter and accumulated a substantial number of pieces.  We kids were particularly fond of the popsicle makers. 

Dave and I had some Tupperware pieces but we both agreed that it took up too much cabinet space and chucked all of it when we moved.  My sister happily took all of my mom's Tupperware, a good portion of which was +/- 50 years old and still in functional condition.  She still has all of it AFAIK, with several pieces that still have the image of the Tupper Seal on their lids.

I heard a story on NPR yesterday about millennials and younger individuals having no idea that Tupperware was a brand, and instead thought it was just a term used for any sort of plastic container.  We'll see how long "Tupper" or "Tupperware" takes to disappear from the food storage vernacular.  We've already witnessed the fading of "Xerox" in our lifetimes and I'm sure there are many others that don't immediately come to mind.  I think "Kleenex" and "Hoover" will be with us indefinitely.  That's a topic for another thread, though.

How many of us remember that ad campaign for Prell Concentrate shampoo, touting their unbreakable plastic tube packaging?  And who knew that was just the beginning?

Glass milk bottles remained on the scene for quite a number of years after those flat-topped wax-coated paper containers came into use, but some local dairies did begin delivering milk in Weyerhaeuser cartons in the late '60s.  I recall reading on those cartons that instead of producing smoke when burned, they would only generate water vapor.  This was likely an early nod to environmental responsibility (incineration was still a common household activity in those days) and certainly a P.R. move by one of the world's largest timber harvesters.  I don't see the Weyerhaeuser brand on milk cartons anymore -- from the few dairies like Clover-Stornetta in  Sonoma County that still use them, that is -- and wonder if this water vapor claim still applies, because in addition to grocery bags, toxic plastic jugs that end up in China and third world countries need to be banned as well.

P.S.

The plastics industry got around California's bag ban by making stronger bags and stating that they're reusable, even though they are discarded just as much as their flimsy predecessors were.  Large grocery chains quickly adopted them.  There's legislation pending that will plug this loophole in the bag ban law, and this can't happen soon enough.  COVID inflicted a setback on the use of reusable bags, and people got out of the habit of bringing their own.  Only the smaller grocery chains use paper anymore.

All of our Tupperware is from the 1970's. It's all orange, yellow, avocado, and brown. We usually pick up pieces at estate/tag sales, and charity/thrift shops. We also have some Stanley Flex bowl sets. Stanley Flex was a Tupperware knockoff. It was given out as a hostess gift for hosting Stanley Home Products parties. I've attached a photo of one of our Stanley sets. 

We had quite a few pieces when I was growing up. My aunt was a sales rep.

In Spain, any plastic container with a plastic lid, regardless of brand,  is called "un Tupper".