Score of a lifetime.

I'm guessing the bottom white piece is from a different and slightly older set as it's lid is a different style but a great find nonetheless.

Those are sweet but do research on the plastic to make sure they aren’t toxic

I was thinking about that, i'll do some research.

As of March 2010, items sold by Tupperware US & CA are BPA free.

Okay so i should gut these? All answers/info i'm finding are pretty vague.

Yeah, probably m8. Plastics degrade and if these are over (apparently) 13 years old then it’s not worth the risk.

These are like 50 years old so yeah i'll figure out what to do thanks

I drank an ocean of store brand Kool-aid out of those pitchers on the left in the early 80’s.

I wish someone could definitively tell me how much cancer this will give me so i can decide whether or not i should keep and use them.

It is highly likely that some of those contain toxic levels of lead. Not worth the risk in my opinion.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/03/19/lead-in-cookware-or-in-toys/

Alright perfect thanks for the warning i'll err on the side of caution.

Mmmm heavy metals, matches my drink from the hose nostalgia collection.

Same. I can almost taste it just by looking at this picture

So guys these most likely have high levels of lead. I'm too lazy to do extensive research but after some surface level internet browsing i'd say that these are in fact not BIFL if we take into consideration the possible effects they may have.

Thanks for the comments

I prefer my kool-aid with the lead in thank you

Nothing sweeter.

Takes me back to being a kid in the early 80s. My mom put cereal in those pitchers. That’s back when cereal and chips used to go stale in a day if they were left open.

7.3 cancer.

Hey if it’s so bad is it safe to store non food items?

Not bad!

Probably fine doing that

Hahaha godspeed friend

Hey everything is BIFL if it kills you first

Send it. Anyone over 35 was drinking out of these daily; if you don’t use these replace everything you own with stainless steel no matter the cost. Everything gives you cancer.

tempting honestly

I would still keep them as containers for other things.

If they are toxic than color me cancer because my family has a set of those we’ve used for as long as I can remember

Thats the plan

Lead shmed. These are gold. Their new stuff is absolutely terrible.

All Tupperware is lifetime guaranteed for the life of the item. If any of them ever break, no matter the owner, Tupperware will replace them.

SCORE! That stuff lasts forever.

You ever think about items you've eaten and drank in terms of volumes? Like how many encyclopedias worth of pizza have I eaten?

Jealous!!

Haha I inherited mint conditions boxes of this shit from my great aunt. We didn’t end up using it, and no one wanted it. During our last move, it went to the dumpster as sad as that is. Broke my heart honestly cause they look fucking sweet lol

Somebody might be able to help you out if you'd pick a more relevant item for comparison, grandpa.

Like what

We're literally in a post talking about Tupperware from the 80s, sport.

My dad used the bottom-right red one to bring his sandwiches to work for probably 30 years. He's 67 and has parkinson's now, though it's more likely to be related to farming chemicals than Tupperware, but it would be interesting to know.

Those are amazing. They hold their flexibility because all the BPA compounds were still legal when those were made.

My grandparents both died of non Hodgkins lymphoma. The Dr said it was a one in a million chance. They used these every day for years. It was the farm chemicals though.

Crafts, game pieces, hardware storage

Lead fishing weights

I prefer using glass containers to avoid plastic and other contaminants in my food.

Other people's teeth and belly button fluff

No. Get off the internet

New sets cost about $20 (at Costco) for a set bigger than this.....

Are any of y'all crazy?

Hate to say it but plastic does decompose after a long time and releases particles into your food. I wouldn’t consider such old plastic safe.

I have similar memory but with one of those orange pitcher ones with beige lid that was permanently stained from Kool aid. Also drank so much frozen juice concentrate out of it. Wonder if people still drink that.

While it's certainly possible, particularly with the yellow pitchers. I would be surprised if the square/rectangular containers were manufactured before 1980. My mom was a "Tupperware Lady" from like 1979-1984 or '85 and I remember the change to the mustard yellow, orange and reddish brown color scheme and then the pastel/almost light mint green colors of those square containers on the right. The pastels were later and might not have been until the later 80's or maybe even early 1990's (we still got the catalogues and some containers even after mom stopped selling it). I've use Tupperware from the time period my mom was selling it pretty much continually (I'm in my later 40's). My family has no issues which could be attributable to lead or heavy metal poisoning.

Gotta wonder how much that plastic is degraded by now.

My mom still uses the red pitcher with that push button lid.

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Turn them into Tupperware for replacements!

Did you go shopping in my moms kitchen? 😆

Great find!

Bullets, paint from the 60’s, vials of mercury from your old thermometer, anything you’re waiting to take to the hazardous waste day that is usually held for 2 hours during working hours once a year as published on the bulletin board at the fire station.

It’s incredible how many things used to have lead and how little is harmful. It never leaves your body. It just gets diluted as you make new blood. So crazy.

3.6 cancer. Not great, not terrible.

Absolutely a score!!

Same. So much aspartame and red food dye. Mmmmmm.

Pro tip: when you go camping fill it with raw eggs (leave the shells at home). The Tupperware people were geniuses, there’s the exact right amount of tension to get one egg at a time.

tang for me

Me too. I could taste it as i read it

reading the comments after using these at my mom’s house my whole life haha these contain lead?????????? Like really???

Same, except it was iced tea. I still have it, but haven't been drinking much iced tea.

Crystal light gang

Unfortunately, Tupperware doesn't live in a cancer vacuum.

Tupperware + genetics + obesity + highly processed food + tobacco + alcohol consumption ...

First thought as well. And then pouring it into the plastic kool-aid cup that was usually red or white, had a handle, and had the kool-aid guy on it

Costco has the glass snap ware Pyrex dishes. They’re 100x better than any other Tupperware I’ve ever had

I can smell my grandparents kitchen in that picture. Grandma always put their cereal in those containers.

Seriously when is pizza not relevant

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Just make sure you microwave them often and run them through the dishwasher on hi temp. That’ll burn off those bad chemicals.

thanks for the tips

Same. She has two of them. They’ve been storing cold water for as long as I’ve been alive. Maybe I should get her some replacements?

Did you buy these from a guy driving a bright orange Dodge camper van?

Ahhh those sizes are so great!!!

I'm 70 years old. I've been drinking from, eating from, and storing food in Tupperware since the '60s. I consider myself - and I have witnesses - that I'm quite intelligent and have good common sense. I don't have sudden jerky movements or slurred speech. I think the dangers of Tupperware products are more concerned with developing children, but I'm not an expert in that field, so I could be mistaken.

I was also raised eating food served in, cooked in, and stored in 1960s Pyrex! (I was already about 10) It's true. "Thanks, Mom. The leaded casserole tasted great!" I 'stole' my mom's #5 blue Pyrex bowl when she started getting rid of her "old" kitchen stuff. I always use it to hold the cooked ground beef for tacos, just as my mom did in the way backs. :) She came to visit me one year and said, "You kept that old thing?" (MOM!) This is the same woman who threw out a lot of my treasured things because, hey, 6 kids, packing for traveling around the world. Not going to bring it if you can't wear it or eat it. She'll be 91 in April and we spend time on the phone laughing about the old days a lot.

*Sorry, I guess I don't know when to shut up. I will now.

YOU DID NOT LOSE ANY OF THEM???

We used eggshell to make the grounds settle in camp coffee.

Old nose hairs

*phthalates. BPA is used in rigid polycarbonate, not flexible plastic- you’re talking about phthalates here

Make sure you burp them when needed.

Are they Nupont Fiber Woven bowls?

I'm sorry what? Can you explain?

from my experience they like their old things in most cases i dont know why

Is that not a huge container to take eggs in? And eggs aren't known for being good to store raw and de-shelled in a potentially warm environment - am i wrong?

Oh god yes! Gold

Eaten of them my whole life and still do. No issues. People here are alarmists.

Plastics are not bifl in my book anyway. They all eventually degrade. Get glass or steel!

(if you don't store food in it then it doesn't really matter)

I’m more shocked at the number of current products that have lead! Fidget spinners are still being produced.

Out of curiosity, do you think that old Pyrex is leaded glass?

As I'm pretty sure the old stuff is borosillica glass, the same stuff that laboratory glass is made from, which is why it was so heat resistant and doesn't leech anything out (chemists don't want lead to ruin their reaction and the glass needs to withstand sudden temperature changes).

Newer American Pyrex is much more brittle due to it using a cheaper glass (quartz or sodalime, if I recall correctly), though apparently European Pyrex is still borosillica.

Another fun one that you may remember; fiestaware, the really brightly coloured ceramic dinner sets that were popular in the 50s/60s, the red, yellow and orange (I think) contained uranium oxide as part of all of the brightly coloured glaze, an acidic meal such as spaghetti would leach significant uranium out. It will also make a geiger counter sing like a canary.

Whereas uranium glass (bright green and glows under UV) doesn't carry anywhere near the same risk of leeching.

Nostalgia can kill ya. Think about it. They were just pumping whatever petrochemicals they had laying around into products like this. Not a bit of testing to determine any level of toxicity in those days. They were trying to squeeze every bit of profit from every drop of petroleum they could, just like today. Nice to look at, but don't store food in them, or worse, store liquid and drink from them.

The pitchers!!!!

He's alive aint he?

Enjoy the phthalates

Literally anything you won't consume that will fit?

Frozen orange juice concentrate, a Saturday morning tradition growing up.

I think he went to Camp Coffee, where the grounds are notoriously raised and unkempt. Without the eggshells, he wouldn't be here today. The eggshells are the only thing to settle the grounds at Camp Coffee.

Saw this and thought why, then remembered my grandparents say they have had the same tupperware for like 40-50 years

I remember those like yesterday!

AKA Survivorship bias.

Pizza not relevant anymore? Guess I'm stuck in the past.

Hmm. I read that as they didn't want to hire an excavator so they used eggshells as fill.

For us it was Tang!

Sweet tea tastes best from that pitcher. It’s a crucial ingredient.

The truly shocking thing here is that you have all the lids. My whole life has been a cupboard of containers with missing lids and lids that do not fit any container.

>as published on the bulletin board at the fire station.

In the basement, behind a sign saying "Beware of leopard."

Don't 👏 use 👏 old 👏 Tupperware.

They look to be well cared for. Good for you!

God i love aspartame

'If it's good enough for astronauts, it's good enough for my kids.' - Our parents

Only if you're trying to pull a fast one to obtain those awesome pitchers for yourself, otherwise no.

Man I can see the Kool-aid Stains in the pitcher from here! Nice score 🤘🏿🤘🏿

Cowboy coffee 🤘🏿🤘🏿

>My family has no issues

...that you are aware of.

Did uncle rico ever send you the included special offer?

I keep all that on a shelf in the garage next to my lawn darts set.

Yup we had to throw out a bunch of Tupperware from the 80s for that reason, you could actually feel it starting to decompose. Not BIFL at all unfortunately.

I had a broken thermometer safely stored in Tupperware and (super safely!) wrapped in a bread bag in my garage for three years.

Every so often I’d google how to dispose of it. I called places on lists and they had no idea what I was talking about.

Eventually I just threw it away. I decided it was safer than forgetting about it and someone accidentally exposing themselves.

And cancer loves you

I think if you are camping and make coffee that is just grounds and water in a pot ("camp coffee") and throw in some eggshell, the coffee grounds will sink to the bottom of the pot.

That's the boring answer

I used to love those pitchers.

The square container on the very top is not that old either. It's a freezer container from the late 90s, I think

BIFSL. Buy It For Shortened Life

So ... crack the corners and get a new set that's lead and pthalate free?

Camp Coffee (or Cowboy Coffee) is made over the campfire or a gas camp stove with a pitcher. You put the water and the coffee grounds in together and bring it to a boil for about 4-5 minutes or a rolling boil. You then add either cold water or eggshells to collect the grounds and have them settle to the bottom before pouring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UAoT21eqXI

You can still BIFL as long as you don't mind it reducing the length of your life.

No, we haven't seen your Dad, I'm sure he'll be back from getting milk and smokes soon.

Always threw them in the cooler, worked well for us 🤷🏻‍♀️ I think it holds a dozen but it’s been awhile.

Tupperware will replace some of the older stuff even if it’s not cracked, chipped, broken or peeling. It never hurts to ask.

Just an FYI: Borosilicate glass is and has always been very easy to break from physical impact. The og Pyrex was no different. Pyrex changed it to Sodalime glass because modern everyday usage of glass cookware saw much more breakage from slight drops or impacts.

Yes, sodalime is much more sensitive to temperature gradients but we just don’t make many frozen casseroles anymore or really have a need to take a dish from a freezer to an over like they used to.

You don’t burp the square Tupperware.

If it’s round, it needs a sound.

If it’s Square, give it air.

Iirc, the red, orange, and opaque yellow ones contain mercury based pigments. The science is still out about whether or not they can leech heavy metals, but I personally don't want to risk it.

The reason I thought I hated orange juice until I was an adult and had the real thing

You get them bad boys off Uncle Rico?

Glad youre happy but this is definitely not bifl imo

I’d use them for other things - screws, nuts, bolts, fishing tackle, stickers, coins…

I hate these so much, unless you want soapy tasting food

amazing! These will last you a lifetime

Better to be bummed than to be sick. Old plastic degrades something fierce after a while, especially when exposed to sun. It's no wonder you can smash through old Dodge dashboards with your bare hands after a few decades.

Fax! Plus i feel like they’d appreciate the relics. and it’s their non-bifl product so the shame may play in your favor

No evidence it causes cancer

Recommendations for BIFL containers to purchase now?

Aspartame was not used in the 1980s except in canned drinks after 1984. Everything else, not until the 90s.

Those pitchers, damn

Mmm, old fashioned BPA and other good stuff!

Definitely make sure you store fatty and acidic stuff in there to get the maximum benefit from all the classic chemicals.

My parents were big fans of Equal (aspartame), Imperial Margarine, Diet Coke, and powdered butter flavor seasoning. My childhood Koolaid was powered by little blue packets.

And they overpaid.

leaded koolaid is nostalgic at this point

Yep, look at the lids now cause they are going to be gone. To a place in the cupboard, with no entrance were skewing sticks be, with the only good veggie peeler and 1/4 tsp dance free.

No, ew... there is no way that shit is safe to eat out of any more.

you should delete your post...

Shoot, really? I've got Tupperware going back 40 years, if not more....and dang-it, I just organized all of it! Now you're telling me I've got to dump it...sigh.

How far back is "too far" to be safe? I probably have a piece from every set starting a decade ago, back to 40+ years.

Or is it one of those things where I should just move them to the garage/woodshop and start using glass containers?

That is true. But it's been like 40ish years. I suppose I could grow a third head tomorrow due to pretty much continuous use of the red Tupperware lunchbox I started using in first grade. I'll let you know if that happens.

Other than the plastic leaching issues and the fact that this isn’t BIFL, they don’t do a good job keeping things fresh compared to modern equivalents! Just get the glass ones with locking tops and THOSE are BIFL for sure.

BTW, Tupperware is still making business in Ruzzia.

I mean, how long of a life are we talking? Could technically still be BIFL…

Some other symptoms you might not notice include developmental delays, learning difficulties, headaches, difficulty with memory or concentration. Don't let me hold you back from using cheap products that science proves are not good for your health. You've been fine for 40 years right? Lol

i asked

I'd rather throw out old tubberware than stop drinking though

That's what big aspartame wants you to think.

Yes. I guess my family dodged the bullet.

Buy it for - life ?

Isnt 0.1 cancer bad enough?

Geeze

It can't be worse for you than sugar. We've been consuming aspartame for 40 years and it hasn't been linked to any chronic illnesses. Sugar directly causes diabetes and cancer on such a massive scale in north america.

I prefer to measure my pizza in terms of football fields.

Same but still

I wanted to comment the same thing, like wtf, why would someone buy old plastic containers...