Spent some quality time with my Tupperware type container cabinet today.

[pinto]

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

:banghead:

[elleng]

1. Oh golly!

:hug:

[fizzgig]

2. i thought about doing that while cleaning the kitchen

but decided i wasn't that motivated

[mntleo2]

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.

Hope this helps!


Cat in Seattle

[pinto]

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. :hi:

[Glassunion]

5. Ha!

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

[kurtzapril4]

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.

[siligut]

7. I ended up using a drawer for my storage containers

So much easier to see what you have.

[NMDemDist2]

8. i wish i could do that

this trailer had 4 VERY small drawers when we moved in, we had two built for under our espresso machine but that is it!! you can see the new unit here, and the itty bitty drawer on the left that's one of the other stack of 4





although, you got me thinking now, i used some plastic drawer thingies in my cabinets in the bath remodel that i'm loving!!!



wonder if i could do the same in the kitchen?? hmmmm :think: