Friday, October 7, 2011

On My Mind...

It will be nearly two years since my nana died.

I miss her so much.

After she died, I went through the house with some of my aunts and thought about some of the things I wanted to keep before the rest of the contents were donated to the Salvation Army.

I got a little glass eye bath, her beside travel clock, my old doll that used to sit on the spare bed (that is missing one eye and has scraggly hair and is really ugly, but I don't care) and whom all us grandchildren would play with when we came to visit, as well as some other bits and bobs that would mean nothing to anyone else.

This is one of the things I wanted to keep, along with some of her old Tupperware.

Nana never had a lot of money; she'd rather spend what little she did have on others.

So for her, to buy Tupperware would have been a real extravagance.

Interestingly, the hostess for the party  was my mum, and it was held a a couple of years after I was born as the catalogue was published November '73.



These are the containers I kept from nana's house.


I have this jug in the picture below.

I bought it from a garage sale for 50c but it didn't have a lid and I'm unable to buy a replacement one now.




It's so interesting looking back at old brochures like this.

So many of these containers are still around in the latest container, and I'm amazed at how many pieces of Tupperware I own that feature (perhaps in a different color or slightly different 'look') in this catalogue!

I even have the order form that she used. 

Nana bought a Small Wonderlier (set of 3) for $3.29 and a large salt and pepper set for $1.79.

If only prices were still that low!

Thanks, nana.

I love and miss you.

10 comments:

  1. That catalogue is just precious as is the order form! It's lovely to keep little mementos of a bygone era and even better when it carries stories of a life well lived.

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  2. Thank you for your comment! Just read your post & it's made me think of my Grandma too. Like you I have many of the everyday items from her house. Whenever I use them I think of her & it is a great comfort to me.

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  3. Thank you for your comment! Just read your post & it's made me think of my Grandma too. Like you I have many of the everyday items from her house. Whenever I use them I think of her & it is a great comfort to me.

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  4. I have a few things my grandmother had, including a couple cookbooks she gave me that she and the ladies at the yacht club put together, and a Betty Crocker cookbook she sent one Christmas.
    It's nice to have little things that might not mean anything to others, but hold so much sentimental value to us.
    I miss my grandmother, too.

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  5. I have come via Rhonda: I miss my grandmother very much as well. I spent a great deal of time with her as a child and learned so much. She was like a kindred spirit to me.
    Yes looking at old catalogues are interesting. How thing change, especially the prices, but then again over the last 40 years my wage has gone up tremendously as well.
    Deb
    www.primrosehappysnapper.blogspot.com

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  6. What lovely memories of your Nan, hold them close.

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  7. Those are fun memories of your nana. I'm sorry for your loss. I'm glad that you have a few of her things to still make you smile.

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  8. thats a pretty cool memory
    you can usually find lots of tupperware at salvos stores you may get lucky & find the lid that matches your jug

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  9. Thank you to all of you for your lovely comments about my nana.

    I really do miss her heaps and because of it I treasure my contact with my other nana more. I plan to fly down and spend some time with her at her retirement village just hanging out, doing some knitting, going to the community centre for bingo and just chatting. And being babied by her when she insists on making me scones that I can never say no to.

    Thanks again.

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