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Original poster

to not make friends with the woman who stole my best tupperware box?

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HughBastard · 03/12/2011 15:32

It was a really useful size. Rectangular, but as tall as it was wide. And it was one of those firm ones, with a nice green clippy lid. I bloody loved that tupperware.

She seems a nice woman, and I could do with a few friends in the area, but a woman who doesn't respect the sanctity of another woman's tupperware box is a non-starter, isn't she?

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SquirtedPerfumeUpNoseInBoots · 03/12/2011 16:37

I've had people bring food to my house for parties, and at the end of the night tidying up, I've no idea who brought what container/plate. I think it's the bringers place to claim back items. I do try to remember who brought what stuff but always seem to end up with something. In fact I have an unclaimed plate from last Christmas and would not be offended in the least if I was asked for it now because it's hideous cluttering up my cupboard.

MabelLucyAttwell · 03/12/2011 16:43

Squirted Perfume

If I were you, I would have contacted those who had been to my party and circulated the question, "Whose is this plate ?"

I would feel guilty about having it if someone had been generous enough to bring a contribution to a do that I was putting on and I had not given it back.

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HughBastard · 03/12/2011 16:49

I have been googling pictures of tupperware boxes to show you what it looked like, but now I just feel sad because all I'm getting are hundreds and hundreds of pictures of inferior tupperware boxes. It is bringing home to me what a superb tupperware box it was. Most of them don't even have clip lids. You know when there's a fold down bit on each side to secure it closed?

I suppose it's possible she is waiting for me to return the playdate invitation so she can return it then. Do you think?

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SquirtedPerfumeUpNoseInBoots · 03/12/2011 16:50

Mabel, I did ask who owned the plate! More than once actually, when couples were leaving, and also afterwards as I met them again. No one seems to want to take it back!

I'm not a closet collector of Other Peoples Things!

I just meant to reassure OP that it would be fine to ask for the return of favourite Tupperware item after so long.

Spermysextowel · 03/12/2011 16:52

Sparkling your comments seem designed to deliberately upset the OP. Have a heart; would you like to imagine your Best Tupperware catching oily drips?

thisisyesterday · 03/12/2011 16:53

oh it's only 3 months! you can DEFINITELY ask for it back.
if she's like me she probably has it sat out ready to give back to you but keeps forgetting every time she knows she'll see you

just say "ooh, i just remembere dI left that tupperware pot at your house didn't i? can i pop by later and pick it up? thanks"

QuintessentialyFestive · 03/12/2011 16:53

She probably would feel odd offering it back!

Just mention it to her next time you see her say something like:

"Jennifer, you know what, I was searching everywhere for my tupperware box on the weekend, we were baking a batch of cookies, and this box is always perfect for storing them, and I had totally forgotten I left it at yours. Sorry it has been taking up space in your cupboards so long. Would you mind bringing it in to school tomorrow?"

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HughBastard · 03/12/2011 16:57

Don't worry Spermy - I am one of the lucky few who have been asked by MNHQ to beta test the ignore function and I am using it on Sparkly.

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Spermysextowel · 03/12/2011 16:57

I have a Tupperware that isn't mine & have asked so many people if it's theirs that they're beginning to find me odd. Perhaps because my memory's bad & I keep asking the same people...

Or perhaps because my memory's bad & it's really mine. It's wondering why it's been sitting alone on the windowsill instead of in the cupboard with its friends

shakemyhead · 03/12/2011 17:00

Didn't know so many other folk are also precious about plastics !!

Sparklingbaubles · 03/12/2011 17:00

No it's probably not catching oily drips. It's being used to store all her sex toys under the bed. Grin

MabelLucyAttwell · 03/12/2011 17:02

Sorry, Squirted.

Spermysextowel · 03/12/2011 17:03

Sparkling you're coming very close to being reported.

Sparklingbaubles · 03/12/2011 17:05

It's pure Envy Spermy. I have Wilkinson's pretend tupperware. Sad

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HughBastard · 03/12/2011 17:06

Spermysextowel - I have to ask, what do you like to be called? I went with 'Spermy' as better than Towel, or even SexTowel. Even SST sounds like a cross between a sexually transmitted disease and a sanitary towel. No offence.

Fellatio - we have crossed paths before but only in a polite, non-tupperware stealing sort of way. Hello. I love you too, if you like?

(It couldn't be used to store all her sex toys. It's not long enough. Butt plugs and love balls, perhaps.)

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Spermysextowel · 03/12/2011 17:08

Oooooo! Have just had thought; could this be Tupperware Hostage-taking?

Do you have something if hers, say, her favourite Bag For Life? The hessian one with ladybirds & handles that don't dig in?

Just a thought.

CupOfGoodCheer · 03/12/2011 17:09

I bet if you ask for it back she's either got the lid, or the box. But not both.

(how/why does that happen?)

Spermysextowel · 03/12/2011 17:12

I have Ikea Sparkling and they all leak, but I don't think that gives me the right to upset the OP.

Do you have a book called '1001 nefarious uses fit other peoples' Tupperware' or something?

Spermysextowel · 03/12/2011 17:14

Hugh or should I say Bastard, Spermy is lovely thank you.

MirandaGoshawk · 03/12/2011 17:15

I too would use the ruse of Christmas. 'Haven't needed it for ages/mince pies'.

But why haven't you returned the playdate? Tupperware snobbishness perchance?

Spermysextowel · 03/12/2011 17:15

Oops for

LEttletownofBOFlehem · 03/12/2011 17:16

You have to break in and take it by force. Otherwise she will just return it with the wrong lid. You know this is true.

Adversecamber · 03/12/2011 17:19

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LordOfTheFlies · 03/12/2011 17:19

Never mind oily drips.

If I had a usefully sized Tupperware box with a good fitting lid of dubious origin, it would be in my laundry room full of washing powder.

or more likely soaking my sons karate pants in Vanish

You wouldn't want it back -Trust Me. Xmas Grin

itsatiggerday · 03/12/2011 17:22

Hurray it's not me! No fold down clippy things.