88 pieces of tupperware on the wall, 88 pieces of tupperware...take one down and toss it around...

Dream-wind left this comment on my earlier post about Tupperware which reminded me that I hadn't taken a look at my plastic food container collection in a while. In my earlier post I talked about repurposing tupperware. But I definitely didn't throw anything out.

True to my hoarder self, I have a lot of tupperware: 

My husband's18-piece "it-melts-when-you-microwave-it" Rubbermaid containers from his bachelor days (USD $15.00)

Two 16-piece sets of glass tupperware from our wedding registry 

(USD $119.80 total)

My 16-piece set of 'Premiere' Rubbermaid containers (love the marketing there) from my days as a single gal

(USD $19.97)

Two two-piece corningware lunch dishes

(total USD $17.98)

One four-piece "lunch on the go" container

(USD $9.99)

A ten-piece set of 'disposble' tupperwares 

(now holding my socks, hose, and such things, USD $7.99)

And two ancient pieces of Tupperware that I pilfered from my mom's cabinet. I do feel bad about this one since I think I stole the only pieces that have the proper bottom and lid. Yet my parents own dozens of plastic containers.

That's 88 pieces of food storage if I did my math right. 

44 food containers. 

Also, because we can food in the Summer and Fall, we have about two dozen canning jars.

Something had to go! A friend of mine at work happens to have the same Premier containers as I do. She wanted some replacements so I dug out the ones I could find and took them in to work. It's not much of a dent in my total collection, but it's something!

The Reckoning

Items 60, 61, 62, and 63: Four food storage containers. 

Cost: I got rid of half of the set I originally purchased. Some are lost, some are still in the freezer. The set was $19.97 which makes these $!0. 

Fate: They now have a new home in my friend's kitchen cabinets.

Amount of money I wasted on junk I never should've bought: $288.

Decluttering tip #8: get organized by repurposing your old tupperware

Like everyone else I'm buried in tupperware. My husband has a set, I have a set, and we got third completely different set for our wedding. Then I bought tupperwares that I thought would be good for homemade ice cream but they didn't work well. Now I have a drawer of much more tupperware than I could ever use.

Repurposing tupperware (and not replacing it) is a great way to empty out your tupperware drawer and get more organized at the same time!

You can use tupperware for storing food of course. I keep some of my dry food staples in my old set.

 Don't forget that things other than food store very nicely in tupperware. Add in a label maker, or make your own labels and voila! Instantly organized sock drawer. For this I used all of the tupperwares I bought to use for homemade ice cream. This only took me a few minutes to set up this weekend and it's already saving me time in the morning.

 

You could use tupperware to store your makeup, batteries, small tools, or sewing items. What other  items could you store in tupperware? Or do you already do this?