You can buy cheap Tupperware knock offs at the Dollar Store all day long but nothing is going to beat the pizazz of a matching set of plastic ware you already have and that most people just throw away.
Plus, they stack well.
4 out of 5 Grandmothers agree, you can’t go wrong reusing your margarine and Cool Whip containers.
they also good for holding parts, nails and god only knows what else.
I’ve got shelves full in my garage storage chests. Only drawback is have to open them all just to find something. Labels don’t work because I just put a category like “plumbing”, ” electric ” “screws” etc. Then the hunt begins. Keep the clear ones in the kitchen to more easily identify foodstuffs. Also saved the plates from about 40 years ago when microwave dinners actually came on a solid microwavable dish. Must still have a good 80 – 100 of those that I can use to heat something quick in the nuker.
I still have 50’s metal Tetley Tea cans full of nuts & bolts that were my Dad’s.
We do both Tupperware and recycle containers. My wife gets second hand T-ware from thrift stores. She’s also great at giving it away, so we have an ever changing array, and the perennial problem of “Wheres the lid to this bottom?” We were just making the point that we need to label stuff going to the freezer, because sometimes you can’t tell, even by smell “Is this soup, chili, or spaghetti sauce?”
Probably the handiest feature of recycle containers is taking a lunch to work, and trashcan it when you’re done. Nothing to have to take home.
Nope! Real butter and homemade real whipped cream.
I agree with ya Brenda! No motor oil and fake froth…
What the hell do you think I keep all my sorted brass in? Good for a least a decade before they begin to get brittle and crack.
peanut butter jars are the best for storing brass. I wet tumble my brass and then size it. then in a jar it goes until needed.
I need to get casting lead again. have a lot of primed and ready brass to go. a long time ago, I helped a old lady on my street back in philly. shovel her walk and steps when it snowed and stuff like that.
one day she asked if I wanted any reloading books as she saw me go to the range one day. WHAT a gift. reloading books from the 1950’s. lots of Lyman cast bullet books too.
some of the old molds are hard to find/get, but the loading data is
priceless.
there is what is called a 200 yard deer load. very accurate, and mild. even load data for all sorts of surplus rifles guys brought back home from the war too.
her kids took the old guys guns and stuff after he died, but they left the books.
That stuff’s not southeren. It’s Italian Tupperware.
Yep, grew up the same.
Oh yeah – it’s Dishwasher Safe!!