Our Tupperware

 

Tupperware

 I remember the Tupperware parties that Mom used to have in the 1970s and early 1980s. I saw some of these items in family photos. The only item that we still have is the mixing bowl.

Internet photos- 

We do still have one of the mugs- yellow. 

April 11- Even More Toys and Childhood Fun

 

I was looking at photos of my brother and me, spotting the various toys in some of them. I hadn’t even realized that we have one of us from 1971 playing with a Tupperware one; I think that it is called Shape O’ Ball. We also had the Busy Block set. You could interlock these and they came with little figures like animals. We might have had the Zoo-It-Yourself plastic animal set (elephant, dog, and giraffe) too.

 The picture of my brother sleeping with his race car is one of my favorites. I am pretty sure that we also used to have one of him sleeping in our green laundry basket in the mid-70s, but that must have been in his album, which he purged most of the photos from.

   Mom had let us each pick out childhood photos from her album, so we wound up with the best shots. I wish that he had just given them all back to her. We don’t have negatives from pre-1976 and some others too.

   We used to get some of our toys from Kiddy Mart on Rt. 1 in Linden. I am almost certain that our little kiddie pool and swing set came from there.

   We had a nice sled. I remember using it to go down the small hill that was a couple of houses away from ours. Maybe our parents took us elsewhere to go sledding too. We must have pulled each other around on it as well.

   Mom got me a mini rocking chair that I hadn’t really remembered until I saw a part of it in one of our photos. Mom was usually the one who picked out our presents. I can’t recall anything specific that just Dad gave to me. 

   We used a plastic penguin salt and pepper shaker set as a toy. Their names were Willie and Millie. Did they actually have these names on them or had we made them up? Was it weird that we played with them?

Tupperware

Note- Internet Photos- Kiddy Mart ad, 3 of the Tupperware toys, and Willie and Millie

October 15- More Toys and Childhood Fun-Part 1

Mike and I always shared our toys and games. Well, I played with more of his stuff than he did with mine. He really wasn’t into dolls and Barbies. He did like my stuffed animal characters.

   

   Some of these were officially both of ours, like the games - Boggle, Yahtzee, Uno, Checkers, Chinese checkers, Dominoes (Mom’s), Pokeno, Toss Across, Husker Du, Uncle Wiggly, Travel Scrabble, Auto Bingo ( country and city versions), Rubik’s Cube, The Missing Link, The Pyramid, and Backgammon.

   

   We had a game called Popcorn that my friend Barbara gave me. Mike and Cousin Rick took the motor out of this and put it on Mike’s model ship. We’ve only ever seen Rick twice; he’s just one day older than my brother.

   

   We have 3 sizes of both our Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls and each have a Winnie the Pooh small stuffed animal. Chip the Pound Puppy was a gift for the 2 of us but I became her owner quickly. I have a smaller one of these that is her daughter.

  

   Magic Slate, a yo-yo, the hula hoop, kites (“Let’s Go Fly a Kite”), kaleidoscope, jacks, marbles, See n’ Say- Farm edition, A Barrel of Monkeys, puzzles, Tupperware connecting blocks with little animals, Chinese yo-yos, Yes& Know books, and bubbles are other things that we enjoyed.

    

The Pyramid

Rubik's Cube

  

Chinese Checkers

Popcorn

Pound puppies-Chip (right)

Raggedy Anns

Raggedy Andys

Winnie the Pooh and Pluto

Yo-Yo

Kite

Tupperware blocks

Magic Slate

marbles

Some of these photos are from the internet- #1-4, 9, 11-17, 19, 24-33.