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[enismirdal]

My mother, who has a love of plastic food storage tubs that borders on a fetish, has thrown out all but perhaps 10 of said containers!!

This has apparently been prompted by dad's nagging.

Nonetheless, when one of my main childhood memories has been of mum putting all leftover food (even single potates) into tubs "to have in a sandwich tomorrow", seeing her part with such an enormous part of her life is incredibly weird. She intends to get some new ones in. In some ways, I have an urge to buy her a multi-pack of good quality storage tubs as a birthday present or something.

The tubs are just so much her trademark...

On the plus side, she's let me claim some of the ones she was scrapping, so hooray for that!

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[azzy.livejournal.com]

oh crap! i have an aunt who has a tupperware fetish.. O_o thats just wrong man! - the worst is really she tries and hog you to those lame ass tupperware partys *laughs* - like hell!

admitted they ARE handy for storage of leftovers and vegetables.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I'd kind of like to go to a Tuppaware party sometime, just to see what they're like.

Yep, definitely handy things. Being a student and living alone, when I'm away I'm always buying enough meat for 2 days and then putting half of what I cook in the fridge for tomorrow, so having a few good tubs is soooo useful.

[melime.livejournal.com]

We have so much Tupperware at our house, it has TWO cabinets of its own! I used to go in the Tupperware cabinet when I was little and play.

At my house, we are big Tupperware people. This is also because we are big leftover people! We make a big meal on a weekend and then pretty much nosh on it for the rest of the week, especially if it's something huge like a giant casserole or pot o' stew. I have a friend that will throw stuff out if it's more than two days old, and that's like Leftover Blasphemy. D: So yaaaay tupperware. I'm sorry your mom had to part with so much of it. :(

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Two cabinets?! WOW! Ours only takes up the one.

Mum's still not entirely realised that when you're 50-ish and a homeowner, you can afford to throw out a left over piece of broccoli. *pets her* She'll keep stuff until it's either been eaten or starting to smell kind of funky. Or occasionally until it grows new limbs... My brother and I have always had an aversion to family leftovers partly because we don't know how long they've been there for.

[blue-blue.livejournal.com]

Your mother sounds so much like my mother!

My mom doesn't have any Tupperware (never been to a party), but she saves every plastic box and cup that comes from the store containing youghurt or icecream or desserts or cookies or whatever - plus all tin foil tins from pies and cakes. She does use them for saving all kinds of scraps in the fridge or freezer, to the extent where half the fridge seems to contain youghurt or icecream until you open the lids to check. :-) But how she thinks she will need all umpteen hundreds of them at once, beats me.

They fill most of the kitchen cabinets and one of the counters, stacked in tall towers, and my dad throws out a few carrier bags worth of them every now and then when she isn't looking, but it doesnt help much. They are slowly taking over the kitchen, like a slow tsunami wave.

It's just GOT to be a fetish!

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my mum doesn't get them from parties - she tends to buy them from the supermarket or hardware stores and things. They used to take up a whole cupboard!

I can understand having quite a lot, since it's good to be able to choose ones in the perfect size...we have ones as small as a single baby new potato, right up to ones that will fit a whole roast duck in! But mum's collection was pretty excessive even then!

[larianelensar.livejournal.com]

Oh but now think of all the fun it will be to buy new ones! They have collapsible ones, microwave safe ones, all kinds of nifty ones. And this way, she can get lids to match so you don't have 52 unmatched lids lying around either.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I was actually amazed to find that most of the tubs still had matching lids, and most of them still fitted, too!

Microwave safe sounds good, as does collapsible - she has a thing against the ones that stack on each other rather than inside each other as they take up more space.

We just need to find a place that sells lots of good quality ones!

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[ssotknapsack.livejournal.com]

Ha. My dad is like that, only he takes it one step further. We call him the Container King, and god help you if you put, say, 300mL of something into a 500mL container. He has been known to squish down unsquishable foods and vacuum seal them in.

If I had a penny for every time I ate macaroni and cheese, rice, or au gratin potatoes with a Ziploc brand indented in it from the lid of the container, I'd be rich. :-P

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Hehehe! Wow!!

I guess it makes the food have more character...I could imagine custom logos being embossed into container lids just for the artistic appeal...

[ssotknapsack.livejournal.com]

Yes, it certainly does. And you know how you can go to a posh restaurant and get artsy food that's been shaped into a circle or something? Well after rice, potatoes, etc. have been vacuum sealed and squished for a few days, you get that for the price of a 20c plastic container! Yay! :-P