I received a threatening email earlier this week informing me that I would be kidnapped on Saturday afternoon. Sure enough, 3:30 came around yesterday and a crazy person burst into my apartment, tore me away from my work, and spirited me away to another location where I was tortured with delicious food. After that, I was muscled into a nondescript black car and driven outside of Lethbridge where I was robbed blind.

Okay, now what really happened. 😀

As it turns out, Jody said she had plans for Saturday evening and that I might as well come have dinner first since Gary was cooking. Since I was being kidnapped, it made more sense for her to pick me up. I went along with it and, while very curious, didn’t probe too much so I would be surprised when we got to our destination.

The funny thing is that she told me in an earlier email where we were going, but I didn’t put two and two together. She had asked me if I’d ever been to a Tupperware party…

Any other ‘party’ I would have balked, but this was Tupperware! I actually had a list of a few Tupperware things I wanted, much to Jody’s surprise. The event was fun and we all got some nice freebies. This was my haul:

Tupperware freebie haul

The long orange thing just about made me squeal. It’s an orange peeler. I used to have one and somehow lost it. Everyone got to take one of these home, so I was allowed to pick another attendance prize. I went with the clear blue item at the top, which is a grapefruit spoon (another thing I’ve somehow misplaced!). I then won a prize for finding something first in a catalogue and I picked the little clear container with the red lid (great for carrying liquids, like salad dressing). Finally, we all got a little something for playing a game and I ended up with this pretty coral pill box, perfect for carrying Advil or whatever in my purse.

As for my order, everything on my list ended up being on sale (!), so I picked up a set of two collapsible bowls, two little storage containers (a step up from the one in my picture above; just the right size to store the other half of the contents of a can), and a silicon spatula

The first Tupperware thing I bought for myself was a cracker container back in 1998. I’ve since moved to using it for storing powdered milk since it is airtight and spill proof. It is the only plastic container that has survived the upheaval of all my moves during the last 13 years. Other plastic containers crack, get stinky, melt, or otherwise self-destruct. Only Tupperware lives on. Now, I have to be careful about how much stuff I buy because of my limited space, but Tupperware fits in with my new philosophy of buying something once, for life. Can’t wait for my order to come in. 🙂