It seems like everybody has the shit overflowing out of some cabinet...

11/8/2010 9:22:12 AM

GrumpyGOP and I have a roommate that religiously saves every plastic container that any type of food comes in (i.e. cold cuts). It's starting to develop into the prelude to an episode of hoarders, but they do come in handy most mornings when packing a lunch.

11/8/2010 9:25:09 AM

Probably like 75 containers and 60 lids, and only about 10 of them actually fit each other.

11/8/2010 9:25:49 AM

I'm phasing out my tupperware, in favor of glass containers.

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"containers ...lids"

One of the pluses for only having a few pieces of tupperware is that I can simply store them with the lids on.
(so they always stay matched)

11/8/2010 9:38:42 AM

about this much..



plus a couple more

[Edited on November 8, 2010 at 9:52 AM. Reason : and Rubbermiad Premier Set tupperware is the shit! ]

11/8/2010 9:50:09 AM

We have 4 containers and that's it. It's ridiculous. I need to buy more

11/8/2010 9:52:30 AM

Ray, do you mean plastic storage containers in general, or the real mccoy Tupperware?

Cuz I got no damn real tupperware, fuckin' shit you gotta buy at a bored housewife party. Women got smart in the last 15 or 20 years...they sell each other dildos instead of fucking food storage.

11/8/2010 10:16:47 AM

I just reuse the containers that lunch meat comes in.

11/8/2010 10:22:34 AM

i definitely read this as fapperware

11/8/2010 10:43:12 AM

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"We have 4 containers and that's it. It's ridiculous. I need to buy more "

us too! I dunno where they all disappeared to... but we have three normal size ones and a tiny little sauce-sized one. not cool.

11/8/2010 10:46:41 AM

i have more tupperware than tupperware lids

i also have more chinese task out containers than I do tupperware

and all those chinese takeout containers have their lids...

no lie though, i have lost many due to improper dishwasher loading.

[Edited on November 8, 2010 at 10:50 AM. Reason : f]

11/8/2010 10:49:41 AM

i generally don't use tupperware or any other plastic containers...instead, i have several sets of these:

11/8/2010 10:51:43 AM

^
I also have those.

11/8/2010 12:45:06 PM

It comes and goes. My roommates like to cook stuff and instead of eating it they leave it in the fridge for months. When there is blue and green fur, I just throw the container away since I know they won't clean it. Then I buy some more and the process is repeated.

11/8/2010 12:46:29 PM

i got a few of those flimsy ~2 cup sized ziploc things, nothing heavy duty though

11/8/2010 12:46:39 PM

my fiance got pissed off and threw it all away

we have like four peices now and the accompanying lids but no extra

11/8/2010 12:48:50 PM

Sometimes, if I have some leftovers in a bowl, I'll just invert a plate over it as a lid.
Sure, it has to balance there, but if you use convex plates, they balance pretty well.
Also, the bottom is flat, so you can store more stuff on top...

11/8/2010 1:06:35 PM

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"do you mean plastic storage containers in general"

Yes, brand doesn't really matter.

It seems to me that most households will do fine with 2 to 3 storage containers (with properly matched lids) per person. Once you get to a certain quantity you either have to constantly expend effort to keep everything neatly stacked/organized or you have to deal with something falling out every time you open the cabinet.

11/8/2010 1:12:55 PM

I believe the appropriate answer here is:

too much.

11/8/2010 1:14:02 PM

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"TASK OUT CONTAINERS"

11/8/2010 1:15:34 PM

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"i also have more chinese task out containers than I do tupperware and all those chinese takeout containers have their lids... "

my local chinese takeout uses some very heavy duty style containers. They are good to keep and use in situations where you dont feel like cleaning and bringing the container back with you.

11/8/2010 1:16:21 PM

i have a lot. and the lids always get lost. i'm on of those people who rinses out cottage cheese containers (etc) to reuse them as tupperware.

i guess that is super homeless, considering i have actual tupperware also. i don't know. i just can't seem to throw containers that can be reused away so it builds up lol.

11/8/2010 1:38:55 PM

^ I have to make myself not do that. I try to hang on to the lunch meat containers too but Fareako makes me throw them away. I still keep a few of the cottage cheese ones to hold stuff that I don't want to use tupperware for, like I keep one in the freezer with all the meat fats that I need to discard that I don't want to put down the drain.

11/8/2010 1:46:50 PM

i guess i could have said pint-sized now that i think about it

11/8/2010 1:47:16 PM

I cycle through the cheap ones when I get lazy and don't want to clean out gross leftovers. Sakura's takeout containers are microwave and dishwasher safe, so I use those over and over as long as I don't let them get moldy.

11/8/2010 1:51:18 PM

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"Probably like 75 containers and 60 lids, and only about 10 of them actually fit each other. "

sounds like us, except we are probably more like 30 and 20.... I really don't know though because we have so many meals portioned out and frozen into the freezer- we could have a lot more (but it seems like whenever I want one, I can't find a container/lid combo that works

11/8/2010 1:54:05 PM

too much, and only a 1/3 of it matches

11/8/2010 2:02:54 PM

Chinese food plastic containers for soup works the best and its free.

11/8/2010 3:25:01 PM

I'm not naming names...but I am friends with a certain child actor who recently went into the tupperware selling business. I don't understand why tupperware is such a huge thing. I really don't.

11/8/2010 3:30:57 PM

when the economy goes down, three things happen.

1. Production of Spam increases by 10 folds.
2. "Meatloaf" comes back to the family table every Thursday night with everyone questioning if there's really meat in it.
3. Sales of food containers skyrocket as people save every food scrap that they can.

11/8/2010 3:53:13 PM

^ Danny Bonaduce?

11/8/2010 3:53:17 PM

not enough... future mother in law steals some every time she leaves with leftovers.

11/8/2010 8:42:18 PM

I have one from a ham package.

11/8/2010 8:48:10 PM

I have lots and my mother always buys a huge set of ziplock/glad containers during the holidays and packs up leftovers for me and my sister, only because I seem to lose every container before the next holiday season comes up.

I have no clue what I do with them!

11/8/2010 8:55:17 PM

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"future mother in law steals some every time she leaves with leftovers"

you're doing it wrong

11/8/2010 9:13:57 PM

we have this



Plus ~15 other containers. Some larger which is great for freezing chili or soups

11/8/2010 10:30:58 PM

Gladware bitches!
I will not use them if I cannot wash off tomato stains or if they do not pass the squeak test with my finger

11/8/2010 10:34:38 PM

none

11/8/2010 10:37:53 PM

bitch you don't even have any furniture

11/8/2010 10:38:14 PM

pshhh, I get new leather furniture this weekend BONG

11/8/2010 10:53:17 PM

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"^ Danny Bonaduce?"

Hah...no....I actually went to school with this person and I might be old, but I ain't Danny Bonaduce old...

11/8/2010 10:53:34 PM