Since I’m on mobile but bored I’ll relate the story, leaving some smaller details out.
In the late 1980’s I moved to Fargo and was working there, not really making any of my own friends - I was kind of third wheeling it with my roommate who was actually from there. On a whim I signed up to GM a TMNT game at the Fargo convention. That night a group of friends decided they’d give it a try. It was a guy and his three lady friends, one of which was his girlfriend. It was a fucking blast! They immediately went off script and I just rolled with it, eventually culminating in a really improv high speed car chase shootout that were using rules made up on the spot. After that day I was invited into their friend group and became their regular GM. Yes, this is all salient information.
Fast forward to a few months later when the girlfriend wanted to sell Tupperware. She didn’t have many friends outside the friend group so she even invited us guys. We all went. In the catalog there was this paper/sewing tray that I liked. I bought it and I’ll be damned if it wasn’t PERFECT for gaming. The bottom part kept papers or character sheets. The top had compartments that were almost tailor made for pencils, dice, index cards, and even a calculator.
A couple months after that was another convention. I set up a booth and showcased the “gaming tray”. I sold a TON of the things. When I told the people they were Tupperware they were amazed. I showed them some other cool stuff that TW had that gamers could use and sold a bunch of extra stuff. Not too long after that I got a phone call telling me my sales were the top in the region for the quarter but I had to have a Tupperware party to qualify for any awards. So I had one. It was all guys. The lady representative that came along seemed almost frustrated at how we conducted ourselves. We didn’t sit quietly and pass stuff around. If we liked it we’d say so then toss it to someone else. We were all over the place. She wasn’t sure how to take us. But I made a few sales from that as well.
That was the last time I did anything with Tupperware as I soon moved from there to Wichita and never kept it going. But I STILL have that container. I still use it for gaming. Tupperware doesn’t sell it any more but this damned thing is amazing. It’s old, it’s stained, it’s cracked on the seam. But then again it’s almost 40 years old and still going strong. When I get home tomorrow morning I’ll try and remember to get a picture of it.
It looks just like this only mine is grey.
Look what I found on Etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1785144359/vintage-tupperware-brown-travel-personal?ref=share_v4_lx
