Culling the tupperware cupboard

I have so much tupperware its just ridiculous. I have two relatives that sell the stuff and a mother that loves to buy it. I'm not a huge fan. I have some bits I like a lot but mostly I could take it or leave it. The thing is I feel incredibly guilty at the thought of getting rid of it. Partly because it is so freakin expensive and partly because some of it were gifts. The usual rules of decluttering have my stomach doing backflips.

I can't give it away as it costs so much. I should at least try to sell it. Selling it means time to photograph, time to list, time to answer stupid questions from people that don't read the listings, time waiting for payment, time to post, then getting annoyed at people that don't leave feedback.

I feel so guilty about the one thing I have sold because it was a gift. I thought it would be okay as I know mum got it in one of those mystery packs so she paid less than it was RRP. But I still feel so guilty. Some of the things I use on the odd occasion that we have people over. But I have other bowls that I actually like better, that I don't use because I feel like I must use the tupperware as it was so freakin expensive.

Most of this stuff I don't use, I don't love and is just taking up space in my teeny tiny house. Why the guilt?!?!

Maybe I should just pack it all in a box & get DH to put it in the roof so I don't have to think about it yet. Then I can pull it out in 30 years & try to sell it as retro :lol:

Am I the only one who feels this way?

I only have stuff I really need and use all the time now. Dd and dh have no idea how exxy it is so have managed to lose or damage most of it, which used to annoy me. Lol. Funny I can't quite throw out the missing bottoms in case the lids turn up one day! Don't feel guilty about getting rid of stuff you don't use. Can you sell it on here? I need some small containers - do you have any?

I have a heap under my house that I have never gotten around to sorting and selling. :redface:

There's a group where you can sell your unused tupperware on facebook.

I feel the same I have things that I don't want to use but I feel I have to because they are gifts but at the end of the day I stopped using them because As my DH said they don't have to look at it all the time so if I'm not happy with it change it =]

Yes. Useless baby things that were gifts. So. Much. Crap.

Yep. I can't sell anything that was a gift, no matter how useless that gift might have been. It seems so wrong to me. I don't re-gift either

Decluttering from gifts is hard work.
My kids had so much stuff my mum has bought everytime she vists. Its good stuff but most of it is broken or parts lost or they are too old for now. But we all have a hard time letting it go.
I like the box it and put it in the roof idea for your tupperware.
Funny i was looking at my container drawer today thinking it was full of crap and stuff i don't want/ use.
Think I'll get rid of it and buy 1 set that comes in a box and everything fits inside each other. The Russian doll style containers i guess :)
Im mainly a glad wrap and zip lock bag girl. Love zip lock bags for everything

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Sell it on a facebook group and say pick up only or do a garage sale. I you never use it I'm sure the giftees wouldn't even notice you got rid of it.

If you don't want to sell it then donate it. When I'm feeling too frazzled to sell I donate and just look upon it as a higher value donation, so be glad the charity will be getting a bigger windfall from it.

You should let your mum now to stop buying it for you too so she's not wasting her money.

go for it - sell it - and as has been mentioned, say "thanks, but don't buy any more, we just don't use it/have space"

we have one tupperware item that rarely gets used - we got it in a mystery pack - everything else gets used all the time. the one item we don't use is sitting in the pantry waiting to go to my brothers house (cos i know they would use it) - apart from that, everything we have has been purchased because we needed it. but i will admit, we culled HEAPS to charity when we moved here about 18 months ago. so much clutter before that - inherited from mum/nan/DHs mum

I have told mum that I don't want any more & she hasn't bought any for a while which is great. She did buy a set for DD :wall: for her birthday though.

Sorry Anney, I use my small containers all the time. It's the big stuff I don't use.
I think I might pack it away for a while until I feel less guilty about parting with it. Illusions wine glasses, various salad bowls, hamburger maker (NEVER used lol! - I can sell this one cos I bought it before I had much tupperware), happy chopper (used once), wine cooler, large jug (very nice but rarely used :(), food mill. I'm salivating at the extra cupboard space once they are gone lol!

LOL girls you have to learn to let go of that gift thing, otherwise you will end up like my poor auntie! She is 70 and clearing out my nanas house to sell after 56 years, as my nana is in a nursing home. She won't throw anything out and is trying to return things to the people who gave them to my nana. Imagine one day someone opening your packed away Tupperware! LOl.
Rowellen, when your kids are bigger the wine glasses will be handy. We use them for kids if adults are drinking to make them feel grown up and great for tossing in a bag for picnics.

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I used to feel the same way about gifts but recently have been having a clear out around home and selling on gumtree all the stuff that just sits there going unused like my mixmaster, breadmaker etc - they were wedding gifts.

Is there anything that you need/want that you can use the money you make selling the tupperware to help purchase? After my mum gave me a guilt trip for selling the chiminea she bought me for a wedding anniversary present that I've used about 3 times I told her that I was using the money to put towards a new dining table which is something we need and will use everyday.

If you do sell, you'd probably get a good price for the illusions. They are really popular and when I used to sell Tupperware everyone would ask me if they were ever coming back in.

LOL I have talked to DH & he reckons sell! The wine glasses are quite scratched now. The kids pull them out and play with them all the time. I doubt I'd get much but I think you're right, Anney, I will keep them so they can pretend to be all grown up. Now to get started :)

If you do go ahead and sell, im searching for the breeze bowls and modular mates in black :) ooh and mini ladles :)

Im like that with the kids toys, they have so many, but i feel guilty giving things away that either was a gift or mum got them etc.. it really can do ur head in, we are moving in 4 months and i need to cull their toys, im leaving it till last lol