Tag Archives: Tupperware

Oct27

What Is the Last Thing You Took from Your Mother When You Left Home?

Posted on October 27, 2015 by lindaseccaspina

I bet it was food in some Tupperware container, or heck let’s just take the Tupperware home.

Tupperware is really the only shop-at-home-party product that actually lasts as long as they claimed it would. Gotta love Tupperware– it’s one of the things that have made it from generation to generation. Remember the company doesn’t fool around- this stuff has a lifetime warranty!

I just got rid of a bunch of pieces that my grandmother had from the 70’s. I love Tupperware, but they need to start selling the old retro counter top sugar and flour containers again. Tall yellow was flour. Short yellow was sugar. Short green was powdered sugar and short orange was brown sugar.

Remember the dusty pink/light blue lids with see-through containers? Those little bowls were my cream of wheat bowls as a little kid. When I got older, I’d take leftovers to school in them. The pink pitcher always had those “from concentrate” juices from a can that you add water too. Anyone’s mum get really mad if you didn’t return your containers the same day? Oprah gets mad when you don’t return hers. Remember that if you get some leftovers from her.:) After the great nuclear apocalypse, all that will be left are cockroaches and these Tupperware bowls

Here is your chance to get Tupperware..

Tupperware!! Tupperware for the Holidays!

Wednesday October 28,2015 from 3pm-8pm

Location: 390 Flora Street Carleton Place(Old Bingo Hall)
Now is your chance to get some Tupperware to store all those Halloween treats- and for Christmas

Fundraiser in Carleton Place for People First!

Funded by Tupperware, Provided by Denise Legroux

With proceeds of the Tupperware fundraiser book

40% of sales will be donated to the organization from the Fundraising Book

30% Denise will personally donate

For more information please call Denise at 613 899-4352

Wednesday October 28,2015 from 3pm-8pm

Hope to see you all there!

Sep5

Direct Sales — Fake or Real Job?

Posted on September 5, 2015 by lindaseccaspina

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My friend Teri White is having her annual Swirlicious and Friends Annual Shopping Event on October 31st at the Carambeck School in Carleton Place. The issue about direct sellers came up once again, and I felt I had to expand my initial essay on it. You either love them or hate them, but people have to realize that NOTHING has really changed since your Grandma was selling Watkins Products.

Remember the Tupperware parties, Amway, Avon and Watkins products? Things haven’t really changed from days gone by. If you’re a mom who’s always wanted a work-at-home opportunity, you may have found it frustrating when searching for work from home jobs. Tupperware conjures up an era when throwing a party to sell airtight storage containers was the pinnacle of a lady’s social calendar. Think Tupperware, and the associations are of a retro, pre-feminist world in which housewives briefly put aside their aprons to discuss the best way to store their husband’s dinner ingredients.

These new direct sales companies provide a way for lots of women to earn a little bit of income, which I can appreciate. But some say they are tired of getting hit up to buy items by their friends! I have a hard time seeing the difference between people posting about their direct sales and someone constantly posting trying to sell their used stuff? Just unfollow the person or defriend them if it gets that bad. All the women I know that do direct sales, are doing it to make money to support their families as any other job full time or part time. Is it a fake job? I have several friends who own legitimate businesses – brick and mortar stores etc. So I would say that is their “real job”. They email me about their business all the time, invite me to fashion shows, sales etc. What makes that different then direct sales? So what equals a real job vs fake job? Is it a salary amount? Hours put in amount? If so what is the amount? I am curious.

The Home Based Business phenomenon has never been as strong as it is right now. Not just in the US and Canada, but throughout the world.The reason direct sales is so popular has to do not only with the benefits to the people selling it, but also the benefits to the companies that make the products or services. The sales model allows these companies a low risk, low cost method of expanding their sales force throughout the country.

I had a friend who lost their job. Out of boredom she went to a direct sales party a friend was giving and enjoyed herself. After thinking a long time about what people would think of her, she decided that she needed to have fun in her life and do something to keep her busy until she found work. A funny thing happened along the way. She began to really like what she was doing and as time passed she was actually making some money.

In order to really be successful, as with anything, you need to put in time. You have to do shows, parties, and network. A lot of time is needed almost everyday to call people about parties and orders. So yes, it is more flexible than a 9-5 job, but it can take just as much time. I also think there is a lot of confusion out there about direct sales (party plan, door to door, vendors at events) vs. network marketing or multi-level-marketing whose focus is on selling the business opportunity more than actual products. Some reps from those companies can be pretty hard core, where as in most direct sales/party plan companies, their focus is on the products. Although they do recruit other reps, it is so that they can sell the products in their areas and build their own career.

In reality, are things really that different than when Mom sold Tupperware? Like the internet, things change, and I commend all of those Mothers trying to stay home, and attempting to make their mark in the world. We women are no longer in an era in which female lives revolved around domestic drudgery. Carry on girls!

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Jul10

Why Shop at Farmers’ Markets and Remember Tupperware?

Posted on July 10, 2015 by lindaseccaspina

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This short piece was sent to me by an anonymous Carleton Place Farmer’s Market Vendor. I thought it might be food for thought for us all…

In his book “EARTH: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet” author Bill McKibbon states that ‘our economy, unlike any that came before it, is designed to work without the input of our neighbours.’ He goes on to talk about cheap food often travelling thousands of miles that is bought from ‘anonymous’ sellers. If you have a credit card and an internet connection, one can buy most anything you want or need anonymously. Many of our local residents work and buy in the city and commute to our town to eat and sleep. And then we are perplexed when people talk about being lonely.

While some like such an ‘anonymous lifestyle’ many would like to live differently and don’t want to live as lonely people. McKibben talks about Farmers’ Markets as a ‘catalyst’ for changing communities. They are places where you can meet people who farm or bake or preserve. There are artisans from our community. All are sellers who will gladly share how their products came to be at the market.

As I anticipate selling at the Carleton Place Farmers’ Market, I’m excited not only that I have fresh produce that is locally produced but that I will be meeting my colleagues and customers after a long winter. Hopefully there will be new customers that I will come to know. Farmers’ Markets’ are a small part of community building.

“Shop The Carleton Place Farmer’s Market —- Because there is no place like home!”

Tomorrow July 11, the Farmer’s Market will be featuring “direct vendors”– I hear a lot of complaints these days about home-based vendors– but if you read the following you will see things have not changed.

The Home Based Business phenomenon has never been as strong as it is right now. Not just in the US and Canada, but throughout the world. I hear some people complain about these home based businesses, but in reality, are things really that different? Like the internet, things change, and I commend all of those Mothers trying to stay home, and attempting to make their mark in the world. We women are no longer in an era in which female lives revolved around domestic drudgery. Carry on girls!

“Shop The Carleton Place Farmer’s Market —- Because there is no place like home!”

Carleton Place Farmer’s Market

7 Beckwith St.

Carleton Place, Ontario

(613) 809-0660

http://www.cpfm.ca/

830 am to 1230 am