primitives spend quality time with Tupperware

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x88974

Oh my.

Skins's island is moving at the pace of a glacier today.

So are we; traffic's w-a-a-y down because everybody's out in real life trying to enjoy what might, or might not, be the last pleasant days of summer.

Anyway.  The cobwebs continue to congest in the cooking and baking forum.

One wishes hippyhubby Wild Bill hadn't eaten hippywife Mrs. Alfred Packer.

pinto   (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-28-11 10:33 PM
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Spent some quality time with my Tupperware type container cabinet today.

I've a million lids that don't fit a million containers...

fizzgig  (1000+ posts)        Mon Aug-29-11 01:13 AM
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2. i thought about doing that while cleaning the kitchen but decided i wasn't that motivated

mntleo2  (1000+ posts)        Mon Aug-29-11 01:24 PM
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3. Are they "real" tupperware dishes? 

If so, here are a few suggestions:

1. Since Tupperware is guaranteed for life against warping and cracking, and often fits more than one piece, you can get piece that goes with it.

2. You can donate those lids to a 2nd hand store where someone else can find and use them. This is where I often replace my lids and find other tupperware for mismatched lids. If I don't have the lid I can replace it with not so much cost.

3. If the lids are warped or cracked and you have the other piece that matches it, a Tupperware rep will replace them for free with shipping costs (about $4.00 per item).

If the other lids are not Tupperware, they may be useless, Though often Rubbermaid has pieces that will match the lids (also often found at a 2nd hand store). Look on the bottom of those bowls and they have a number that will match the lid with the same number, find the bowl that matches it and VOILA! Another dish, often for less than $.25.

pinto   (1000+ posts)      Mon Aug-29-11 08:30 PM
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4. Thanks for the ideas. I put them all in a box on the sidewalk - "Free". They're gone.

I'm figuring on using bowls/plates and aluminum foil, like I used to do.

Glassunion  (1000+ posts)      Mon Aug-29-11 08:34 PM
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5. Ha! 

Come over to my place. You apparently have some of my lids. I have containers with no lids.

kurtzapril4  (337 posts)      Wed Aug-31-11 03:13 PM
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6. I buy plastic food containers once a year when they go on sale at the grocery store...2 packs of 4 containers for $5. I throw all the old ones in recycling. But you better believe at the end of the year, I have lids with no containers, and containers with no lids. Where they go to, I have no idea. I think they're living with the single socks.

After which some primitive from New Mexico shows off the interior of his trailer house; the kitchen, where he stores his Tupperware.

[JohnnyReb]

DUmmies shop the second hand stores to buy top quality illegal drugs so they can travel to protest the evil legal drug company profits.

[DumbAss Tanker]

One wishes hippyhubby Wild Bill hadn't eaten hippywife Mrs. Alfred Packer.

Perhaps she started asking too many questions about those ten dollar bills.

[Ballygrl]

I'm a Republican, aren't I supposed to be rich? then why do I only have 1 piece of Tupperware? and the rest are either no name or Ziplock containers?

[GOBUCKS]

One wishes hippyhubby Wild Bill hadn't eaten hippywife Mrs. Alfred Packer.

If that happened, going out as an entree was a better ending than she deserved.

[franksolich]

If that happened, going out as an entree was a better ending than she deserved.

Our Canaris on Skins's island says that's what happened; it's on these two shoulders, that Mrs. Alfred Packer ran away, after having given decent and civilized people so much innocent merriment and rib-tickling amusement.

That pisses me off like you wouldn't believe.

franksolich at no time, never, has obstructed a primitive from hanging around Skins's island, or discouraged a primitive from acting in its natural primitival state.

franksolich has no greater effect on what the primitives do and say on Skins's island, than does a viewer watching a show on television have any control over what the actors do and say.

This is ridiculous.  The only thing I can think of is that by the DUmpster parodying the primitives, the DUmpster makes the primitives lose confidence in what they say and do, and even become ashamed, embarrassed, humiliated.

Well, if one's not confident in what one says or does, probably one shouldn't be saying or doing it in the first place.

I dunno; it's late, and I'm rambling here.

This also shows a grievous lack of self-deprecating humor among the primitives; they take themselves way too seriously.  Myself, I wouldn't care a whit if the primitives parodied, lampooned, mocked franksolich; in fact, I'd probably laugh along with the primitives, as I'm sure all other decent and civilized people would too.

(Note to the sparkling husband dude and the dorkio primitive: simply calling franksolich childish names or "stupid," is NOT humor; it's just shit coming out the wrong end.  I suggest both of you develop some more-sophisticated literary talents, emulating my example.)

[DumbAss Tanker]

The only thing I can think of is that by the DUmpster parodying the primitives, the DUmpster makes the primitives lose confidence in what they say and do, and even become ashamed, embarrassed, humiliated.

Think of DU as the hypochondriac parents raising a bubble child who actually has no real illness.  The DUmpster fulfills the important role of breaking the bubble and bringing the sheltered, emotionally damaged, and deluded but fundamentally-well child out into the real world.  They SHOULD be embarassed and humilated over a lot of their postings, but without the mirror of the DUmpster, they would never realize it.

It's a service to them as much as amusement for us, really.

[vesta111]

Damn it all we are just looking for a way to store these plastic tubs and their tubs.

We need some inventor to come up with a way to store these things and tops that is easy to find and put away in a cabinet.

I have gone looking for these darn things time after time to open a cabinet and had a shower of the suckers fall on me.

Each container has a different top, not so much the containers as it is to store the tops that fit them. Unless one keeps to one brand of containers then searching for a top is a problem.

[BEG]

Damn it all we are just looking for a way to store these plastic tubs and their tubs.

We need some inventor to come up with a way to store these things and tops that is easy to find and put away in a cabinet.

I have gone looking for these darn things time after time to open a cabinet and had a shower of the suckers fall on me.

Each container has a different top, not so much the containers as it is to store the tops that fit them. Unless one keeps to one brand of containers then searching for a top is a problem.

Take all but a few pieces in various sizes of the best ones you have, put the rest in a box in the garage. See if you can live with what you decided to keep. That is what I did when we moved to CA (I actually tossed what I wasn't going to put in the cabinet). Didn't need them and didn't want them back. A few times I could have used an extra one but either put it in a glass bowl that had a lid or a ziplock bag.

[Mike B the Cajun]

Miss Chris, being thrifty (read: "cheap"  ) uses old margerine tubs. Same size lid for the lot of them. Still doesn't prevent the avalanche vesta mentioned, but ridding oneself of excess only requires a garbage can!