Do you ever feel like your plastic Tupperware is taking over your cupboard?? Tupperware and I have had lifelong enmity– it should’ve been right there in Genesis: “And there will be enmity between you, Tupperware and the woman”. I know my mom felt this way, because she always paid me 50 cents to organize her Tupperware drawer, probably because she couldn’t stand to look at it.
For me, unorganized and scattered Tupperware is the EPITOME of futility. Here, you have all these containers that could be OH SO HELPFUL! if only you could find the right lid! And if you can’t find the right lid, it’s absolutely pointless to use one. And in order to FIND the right lid, you spend 10 minutes searching, which essentially eliminates the practical aspect! And for some reason, every time you unload the dishwasher, the top is NEVER with the bottom, so you end up helpless, throwing them in to the ever growing mountain-slide of Tupperware taking over your cabinet. You can’t put the lids ON to store them, because they won’t stack, but you can’t stack them, because THEY’RE ALL DIFFERENT sizes! For convenience sake! It’s like Weight-Watchers meets Russian nesting dolls. Good grief.
Does anyone else feel this way? I tell you, whenever I think about my Tupperware cabinet, it makes me want to give up and eat a bucket of icecream. Anyone want to earn 50 cents?
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Tess says
I love this! If I blogged I would have just blogged about this about three days ago because I was telling Brooke the same thing. Do you ever just feel the urge to throw it all away and start over with new, matching, stacking Tupperware? I do! Oh and for the record I’m pretty sure I either got payed way more to organize your mom’s Tupperware or I did it for free because it’s just that soothing for me, none of this ridiculous 50 cents nonsense though, hehe.
Tess says
yes, I know I spelled paid wrong, I just can’t fix it!
nyx says
haha, that’s why i only buy one size of tupperware. that way, the parts always go together. of course my main problem is that Justin stores them where I can’t reach them. . . . . and of course me hating to clean them cause I forget about them and let them mold and get all gross…. =(
cornerofnoandwhere says
Kelly, yes, I completely understand! I’d volunteer but the gas to get to dallas is way more than 50 cents right now.
Tess, I’ve actually just done the “start all over with matching, stackable” versions. Well, i’ve started the process. The new ones haven’t made it into the cupboard yet since i haven’t cleaned it out and the stackable ones are so nice and neat right now.
Nyx, in that situation, just throw it away!!! that’s what i do. (hence the need to start all over with the collection)
I also don’t like when, even though you wash it, the plastic stays reddish from a tomato-based dish and/or the tupperware just never seems to get fully cleaned anymore.
my favorite part of this post: “Weight-Watchers meets Russian nesting dolls” !!! GREAT image!!! 🙂
nyx says
ew! christine you are totally right about when the tupperware turns red or orange-ish from things like spaghetti sauce…sooooo gross. in general, i think tupperware is gross. *shudder*