Looks like this is a universal thing, I know Filipinos and Mexicans do this too. One thing that devastated me when I was a child is seeing the tin of those buttered cookies thinking there’s cookies in it and it’s grandmas sewing supplies.
Oh, the heartbreak of the tin. The idiotic thing about the tin. We ALL had to know. After the first 3x looking as a kid, we should all know it's just sewing things. And yet, hope hits for a millisecond every time you reach. I'm almost positive those cookies are in some kind of weird state of quantum flux at all times. Both in the tin and out of the tin, a buttery Schrödinger's Cat. The only time I actually found cookies? I was desperately in need of a button and some black sewing thread since I'd split the seat of my pants right before I had to work. I may be cursed, now that I think about it....
He's unknowingly being a conscious consumer, environmental ✨FRIENDLY✨, with just a touch of frugalness. He gets an Double A++ because he offer to share 💪🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I don’t know a single family that hasn’t done that. I have a bunch of containers that are from a Chinese restaurant, used for their soup, and they are amazing to store things in, be it nuts and bolts or even food. The lids are also tighter and stay on better than 90% of Tupperware containers are!
I get pho or hot and sour soup once a week or so and can verify. Their take out soup containers are much better than any store bought ones I've come across.
I'm Gen X and my mom used to save the paper grocery bags from the store. Some stores would deduct from your grocery bill if you brought in your grocery bags. Drove my dad crazy .
When those containers aren't good for food anymore they are great for using in the garage. Use for oil changes, holding loose nuts or screws or using for paint
plumbing repairs to catch water / bailing out the tub or terlet. tub of soapy water for washing counters/walls. porch ashtray. holding other plastic containers
Tupperware roulette my family calls it 😂😂😂 Especially after the holidays, standing in front of the fridge in the middle of the night, trying to find the container with the green bean casserole in it. Or thinking we still had butter, but when you go to use it, its leftovers like cranberry sauce 😂😂😂
🎆 ~ JM ~ 😁 *Touché!* 😆 🤣🤣🤣 LOL I kinda like a little bit of it once every 3-5 years on Thanksgiving only - & ONLY IF someone trustworthily clean makes it ... NOT a germaphobe, 🤣 but germs DO concern me. 🤣 👍✌️🤙 ~ 💖
My grandma does the same thing except her Tupperware is nothing but those types of containers even for herself LOL😅 and we live in the thumb of Michigan LOL
My family does this and we're from north central PA. Great video, I find it funny that it shines a new perspective on something I've been doing my whole life without thinking about it. 😂
I remember in high school bringing a butter container filled with cookies to a class for a party. I ended up carrying it around with me all day and it was funny how different poor kids reacted to middle and rich kids. Every poorer kid looked at me carrying a country crock container and rightly assumed it had something else in it, but all the richer kids would stop me to ask why I was carrying a thing of butter. And by rich I mean midwestern, we have central heating and cooling, rich.
🎆 ~ *Me2!!!* 🤣 🪴🪴🪴 Lol - i have a box full of empty yogurt containers - i use 'em a lot!!! Like, to scoop out potting soil from the big plastic bags & put it into clay pots at planting/transplanting time - & to top-off potted plants with an inch of new soil on top. When my fav Greek yogurt company re-designed their containers, i saved my last original one & use it to rinse the bathtub after cleaning it (luvvv seeing it still - good times lol!). Plus, I propagate new house plants from my established ones by rooting cuttings in water, & then transplanting the new little 🪴 plants into yogurt containers to give 'em away to friends & to businesses I shop at. But ... ⬇️ _MOST IMPORTANT RE-USE FOR 'EM:_ ✅️ 🐾 🦅🦌🦊🐝🐕🐻🐦⬛🦝🦉🐝🐈 🐾They're my *"Animal Safety Garbage"* containers, too (those big orange juice bottles/jugs, too) - ever since i saw bears & birds & homeless dogs & other animals (on a TV documentary years ago) rummaging around an open landfill & eating spoiled food mixed-in with dangerous objects.😢 After i wash & dry the yogurt containers, i use 'em to hold small dangerous things that wild or stray animals could choke on & die &/or puncture their inner throats or intestines & make the animals suffer terribly B4 they die, if they scavenge the outside garbage cans/dumpsters or my uncovered county landfill. I safely dispose of harmful-to-animals objects such as broken glass, light bulbs, used batteries, toothpicks, floss, floss picks, etc. into 'em. When the container's full, then i put the lid on & completely wrap duck tape around it - totally ... like a mummy. 🤣 THEN i secure it in several retail plastic shopping bags that have NO FOOD & NO FOOD AROMAS in or on the bags to lure animals, & tie each bag in a knot 3 times ... THEN I toss it into the GARBAGE, at least knowing I did my best to protect the animals. :) 🇺🇸 Sprinkling ✝️ Blessings 💖
Wisconsin Girl here! I'm ALWAYSSSSSS using old Kroger (Pick & Save) sour cream and cottage cheese containers (and yessss...cool whip containers too 🤣😆) to give extra food away to my son - homemade soups, chili, etc. since I rarely was getting my good containers back from him! Problem solved! 😁💯‼️✅️
I'm a Filipino and growing up we had a lot of ice cream tubs. Opening the fridge was a game of roulette; is it ice cream? Or fish? Or maybe leftovers 😂. My mom had a lot of tupperwares and she would only use it on occasions.
It's 100% correct. Unless you're totally debt free, and have your house paid off, you're an idiot wasting money on things like fancy tupperware, when free containers are so easily available (that work perfectly). Mr. Country Crock is going to retire a millionaire, and the other guy will be struggling to survive on SS. It's just mathematics. Save EVERY dollar, and you will get rich.
Just using this reply spot because it's near the top, the containers CAN be used in the dishwasher, just turn off the dry cycle, so it won't heat up the plastic. Sure, you'll have to dry them manually, but they'll be in one piece. Also, some of the containers can be microwaved, just don't microwave for too long...
To fix those stained Tupperware containers, rub a little butter (real butter) around the stained area, then put some warm water in it, dish soap, and a paper towel, close the container and shake. The butter helps with the lycopene which causes the red stains so the soap can actually remove it. Lycopene likes clinging to plastic.
My grandpa had a skippy peanut butter jar filled with nails. It was somewhere near 1994 when they started collecting them. Now he's gone but i use those same nails.
My Mexican grandma would do the same thing. She would throw out the old country crock butter container after finishing a new one to replace it. That butter tub always had the best goulash in it ❤❤❤❤❤
Me too, a hilarious mishap happened in 5th grade, I put spaghetti in a cool whip tub the night before. The next day I grabbed it and went to school, noticed it felt weird before putting it in the microwave, I had accidentally grabbed a tub of weed butter instead of my lunch.
Same concept worked for us for gift boxes. Cereal boxes, tampon boxes sometimes even the empty carton of cigarettes. Don't trust the container or boxes! lol
I go one step further and don't bother gift wrapping or hiding it in another box. Your gift will come in a plastic grocery bag. And even then the bag will only be there for my convenience.
I know a lady who has a whole cupboard full of those containers. She entertains a lot and uses them to send leftovers home with people. They pick the size they want and take as much as they want. I thought it was brilliant!
"Why don't you just use tupperware containers?" Because...if I did that, the chance MY lunch stays MY lunch drops by at least 75%? Nobody going to bother opening THESE containers!
I paid for the product and the container it came in, I'll be damned if I'm letting that thing go before I get my money's worth outta it! (this sketch is painfully accurate it hurts...)
Our town just got a PSA from the local recycling facility reminding us that these containers can be recycled. Apparently they aren't seeing the number of containers they would expect. My first thought was, We're Midwesterners! We reuse before we recycle! My second thought was, We send them out of town with leftovers!
Shows the level of ignorance in the whole "recycling" program. The idea is Reduce, REUSE, then recycle. Somehow everyone goes straight to the end, which is basically throwing it away, but they still think they are doing something right. Midwesterners seem to be the last of the american people that have any sense at all.
I grew up in Denmark (EU) but my dad was born and raised in the Midwest, and my mother had lived there for 7 years as well. I bring my lunch to work just like that and have my entire life.
We have an entire cabinet above the junk drawer filled to the brim with those types of containers. There's also two cloth shopping bags full of plastic bags(the bags of bags) underneath the junk drawer.
Goes into fridge at 2am, sees a container of yogurt, happily opens it to find, not yogurt, but deviled eggs and potato salad in the same container. Of course I ate the deviled eggs, that stuffs delicious
@@Joy21090 my brother had hid them in there he was hoping to have them for a snack until I came along. They’re my mom’s deviled eggs and they are chefs kiss delicious. Told him it was my revenge for eating all of my molasses cookies last Christmas 😏
It's really bad when making a grocery list. You think you already have what you need in the fridge, you buy everything else and then find out the sour cream is actually macaroni and pea salad... you can't use that as a substitute 😂
My son loves yogurt, so we go through at least 1 tub a week. Instead of tossing the containers, I keep them, cut holes in the bottom, and use them to start my seeds every season.
finishing Xmas leftovers, I found a Cool Whip container in the back of the fridge. I was so disappointed to open it up and find out it was actually Cool Whip.
Nothing's more disappointing when you go into the fridge looking for leftovers to find out that what you thought was leftovers was what is supposed to be in the container
And same people who just drop or intentionally loiter because they think that would barely dent the environment around them when they are 1-billions who still does this and still bitch yap cry and complain how we are destroying beautiful natural habitats with some endangered species are now even more at risk because of just garbage alone and that is not counting some places with wildfires and illegal animal trafficking/ugly poachers
I live in the south. Cool whip containers are top of the line Tupperware here. We actually gave a guy the nickname Cool whip because of his excessive use of that container. 😂
@@alexfinn7989 Glass Tupperware is something that sounds like a good idea until you have to handle wet ones straight from the fridge. One or two slippages leading to broken glass is all I needed to reconsider "straight glass" containers. Old Mason jars (either with label or some form of ridges), however... that's a pristine place to put soups and sauces into.
Or care about your health. Those containers can't handle heat or harsh cleaning. Even putting food in them while it's still hot can be a problem. I use that kind of stuff, but not for lunch or left overs. They can work good for stuff like cookies or maybe if to give elft overs for a guest so that you don't have to worry about them bringing the container back.
@@tonymouannes I honestly tend to just wrap glass up to limit breakage if I can, which is a concept that works both for the fridge and lunch. Still, glass shattering at the slightest provocation will always stay glass' main, horrible flaw.
I thought I was the only one. When I am making a sandwich with the last two slices of a loaf, sandwich goes back in the bag instead of wasting a new unused bag. Works great!
My family washes zip lock bags and freezer bags too. We make our own bread and mill our own flour fresh. So we don't get those bags anymore. But work with what you've got, right?😊 There's a sandwich bag drying in my kitchen right now😂
When I was a kid, my mom had me and brother put bread bags over our socks before going out to play in the snow. Warm dry feet all day! They also came in handy for bathing whenever I broke anything from the elbow down, keeping the plaster casts from getting wet. A rubber band from bunches of green onions was usually what kept the bags in place over the casts.
No it's Midwestern you wanna know how I know because if you go into any Michigan or Wisconsin house every single fucking person is putting either venison stew or some sort of pickled deer heart or pickled sausage with the deer heart like it's not just gonna be some fucking macaroni and beans it's gonna be shit we hunted for
@Atlasintokyo wisco here and this is undoubtedly a fact. I moved to Florida (I hate it here please honest to God cross my heart let me pass in my sleep) but i can confirm, homes ive been to here do not seem to do this very often.
@@Atlasintokyo Guy in the video was eating lasagna and pie, not pickled deer heart or any other weird crap someone cut out of a deer. (Venison stew sounds pretty good though.)
Okay this has always been my favorite story but dam that musical is GOOD!!! Just listened to it completely and yeah this is going on repeat for the next week or so 😅❤
I will even make purchasing decisions based on the container. Will it be possible to use for leftovers? The only container I don’t reuse is the peanut butter jar. Yes, it has a wide top and a screw on lid, but it is so hard to wash out. I don’t have a dishwasher. I heard a comedian (can’t remember who) say that in their large family, all the salad bowls said Cool Whip on them. Right on!
That's fine. You're doing pretty good. If you ever did want to save a PB jar, start by wiping out the inside with a paper towel a few times, then soak the inside in good, hot, soapy water. Use a bottle brush to clean it after it soaks. Good for freezing stuff, like apple sauce, as other people have mentioned.
To be fair, the pie fit great in the cool whip container and the cool whip fits in any container, but storing them together would've made the pie go soggy.
Yeah, some people look at the Midwesterners like we're nuts, but actually, we're just very resourceful. I've definitely done stuff like reuse containers instead of buying expensive bullshit from the store.
@@DEC3TheWokeProject- I was raised this way. Didn't realize until HS that it's considered somewhat abnormal to re-use these types of containers and wash your non-greasy ziplock bags to be re-purposed. Shrug. Some of us know how to save a bit of money. We don't need some fancy, pretty container 😂
@@return2basics242 Same. The first time I heard it was weird to do was my friend's mom saying she had never even heard of the concept of reusing plastic food containers. I mean, it just makes so much sense to do it. You need containers, they work, why wouldn't you.
@darwinxavier3516 Exactly. If the economy continues in the direction it's been heading, lots & lots of people who are unfamiliar with this concept are gonna think they're geniuses here pretty soon WHEN they realize these containers are salvageable & reusable. They'll soon discover they can save lots of money while we won't benefit from it because we've already been living this "cheapskate" trick of a lifestyle our whole lives. If that day ever comes though where literally every penny counts, there goes the daily "Starbucks" $10 cups of coffee. Welcome to an even playing field! LOL! Who has an upper hand now, chumps?! We've been practicing for YEARS! We aren't giving anything up, learning anything new, changing any routines, but we are laughing at you struggling to adjust, LOL. Plus, we've been saving those used & dried coffee grounds and adding it to our gardens for supplemental nutrients all this time, too. Bet they toss out their egg shells as well, LOL!!!
🤣🤣🤣. I'm not from the Midwest, but you bet your bottom dollar that we used those containers for leftovers. (Mainly the cool whip ones). When we cleaned out my Momma's house to sell it, she had so many of those kinds of containers. We did throw them away. Miss you Mom!
my grandma taught me to do this; she also reuses the plastic bags from inside of cereal boxes lol. it’s is quite resourceful and frugal, but it’s also a more green decision because unfortunately these types of plastics are rarely recycled anymore despite the container saying they’re recyclable, so they’re being repurposed instead of ending up in a landfill :) though, it can be kind of startling to go to the fridge for some midnight yogurt and open the tub to instead be confronted with a giant lump of spaghetti
My grandma used to send my dad and his siblings to school with their lunch sandwiches wrapped in the little baggie that newspapers came in...when you're born in 1933, you've lived through some stuff
@@matthewkafka9566 wow! well, it’s all plastic and it works, so why not, right? sounds like your grandma was thrifty and clever :) yeah that generation went through a lot and were hardened into diamonds
@@Joy21090 mainly dry stuff like cookies, chex mix, puppy chow, homemade dried fruit & hard candies, etc., or to pack a sandwich - basically in place of a ziplock bag. she also reuses bread bags for similar stuff & sweetbreads
Need to use glass. Our parents used this crap, if you're gonna use it, at least heat the food up on a paper plate so you don't put chemicals into the food.
The pie in the cool whip container and the cool whip in the cottage cheese container is gold
Actually, it’s silverware in the gold, not gold
LOL. I laugh. but...yeah. I'm guilty of the same crime/life style. hahah!
I was already dying when he had the pie in the cool whip, but I completely lost it when he had cool whip in another container.
Looks like this is a universal thing, I know Filipinos and Mexicans do this too. One thing that devastated me when I was a child is seeing the tin of those buttered cookies thinking there’s cookies in it and it’s grandmas sewing supplies.
YESSS! Always the sewing supplies!😂❤
@ sometimes I forget I’m an adult and I’m like: I can buy these rn, what’s stopping me?
Oh, the heartbreak of the tin. The idiotic thing about the tin. We ALL had to know. After the first 3x looking as a kid, we should all know it's just sewing things. And yet, hope hits for a millisecond every time you reach. I'm almost positive those cookies are in some kind of weird state of quantum flux at all times. Both in the tin and out of the tin, a buttery Schrödinger's Cat. The only time I actually found cookies? I was desperately in need of a button and some black sewing thread since I'd split the seat of my pants right before I had to work. I may be cursed, now that I think about it....
You should had had know, that the cookies were in the sour cream cups! xD
I did this myself with a Danish biscuits tin. Or cookies for the USA.
Even worse when it's a quality street or similar container.
They are perfectly good food safe containers.
Until you microwave them.
Or put them in a dishwasher. These plastics werent meant to be heated.
😂😂😂 yes love that 🎉😅
yall are microwaving these? I always use these to store leftovers and eat off a plate because the leftovers reheat better that way
@wyatt7750 hell yea dawg i ain't got time for all that fuck a micro plastic I micro don't give a shit anymore ❤
And nobody takes them for recycling!!🙃
He's unknowingly being a conscious consumer, environmental ✨FRIENDLY✨, with just a touch of frugalness. He gets an Double A++ because he offer to share 💪🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I don’t know a single family that hasn’t done that. I have a bunch of containers that are from a Chinese restaurant, used for their soup, and they are amazing to store things in, be it nuts and bolts or even food. The lids are also tighter and stay on better than 90% of Tupperware containers are!
I get pho or hot and sour soup once a week or so and can verify. Their take out soup containers are much better than any store bought ones I've come across.
Lol I was going to comment this. I get atleast 3 containers to use when I get Chinese food. The soup ones are def the best
Not gonna lie, one Chinese place near me has god-tier containers infinitely better than Tupperware.
Those are the best!
Dude YES soup to-go containers from Chinese and Vietnamese stores have the tightest lids on them
Ah good old struggleware. My mom saved butter bowls for years when we were kids.
I'm Gen X and my mom used to save the paper grocery bags from the store. Some stores would deduct from your grocery bill if you brought in your grocery bags.
Drove my dad crazy .
Struggle? You're bugging!
😂😂😂😂😊
Reduce, reuse, recycle. It's the first two 😂
I feel that resourcefulware is s better fit.
This is valid in the south too. We had Cool Whip like twice a year but we had the container filled with soup all year round lol
Everyone does this. It's not cultural or regional.
When those containers aren't good for food anymore they are great for using in the garage. Use for oil changes, holding loose nuts or screws or using for paint
My grandfather also reuses pill bottles for screws and nails storage 😂
I keep my fishing gear and nails in them
And great for art projects.
plumbing repairs to catch water / bailing out the tub or terlet. tub of soapy water for washing counters/walls. porch ashtray.
holding other plastic containers
@Crocogator porch ashtray 🤣 I love it
Tupperware roulette my family calls it 😂😂😂
Especially after the holidays, standing in front of the fridge in the middle of the night, trying to find the container with the green bean casserole in it.
Or thinking we still had butter, but when you go to use it, its leftovers like cranberry sauce 😂😂😂
🎆 ~ 🫡 🤣🤣🤣
That's hilarious!!!
WAIT - WHO eats green bean casserole in the middle of the night?¿?
🤣🤣🤣 Too funny!
Sprinkling ✝️ Blessings ~ 💖
@@UntameableRunawayDo you remember Bunnicula?
@@UntameableRunaway, a better question; who eats green bean casserole ever?
🎆 ~ JM ~ 😁 *Touché!* 😆 🤣🤣🤣
LOL I kinda like a little bit of it once every 3-5 years on Thanksgiving only - & ONLY IF someone trustworthily clean makes it ... NOT a germaphobe, 🤣 but germs DO concern me. 🤣 👍✌️🤙 ~ 💖
I love this comment! It’s pure nostalgia! 💗
🤣 and here I am... so proud of my leftover container collection!
Same! 😂😂😂
Fr bc it’s such a huge flex when you get a really nice one and you are like “oh yea ima saVe this one” 😂
bruh right?
Imagine throwing a temper tantrum because someone reuses perfectly usable containers 🤣🤣
These people surely lack the lessons from Ecology... don't you think?? 😁
Right! And complain that you're reusing something that YOU paid for lmao. It didn't even come out of their pocket so why do they complain??
The cabinet of empty cool whip and butter containers along with the bag of bags is the sign of a true midwestern household
It’s funny. Everyone thinks their people invented the “bag of bags”.
Sorrybwe southerns invented "moms" tupperware and bag ole bags
Honestly this is also exactly like the South, so not really a good identifier of region.
Same here in the west.
Don't forget the junk drawer!
When family and friends want to "take some home", I never give them my Tupperware, because I'll never get it back. Butter tubs work great.
My grandma does the same thing except her Tupperware is nothing but those types of containers even for herself LOL😅 and we live in the thumb of Michigan LOL
On top of all this my mom uses those huge cheese puff plastic containers to store dog & cat food in it lmao works well
My mom's the same way. (I keep forgetting to bring the clean stuff back to her home.)
Exactly. It’s not for any other reason than that. lol
i am that guy but mostly that tupperware sits ontop of my shoe cubboard and i forget to grab it every single time i leave the door
Economically, and Ecologically responsible. Reduce, REUSE, recycle, you're helping the planet!😊
My family does this and we're from north central PA. Great video, I find it funny that it shines a new perspective on something I've been doing my whole life without thinking about it. 😂
I remember in high school bringing a butter container filled with cookies to a class for a party. I ended up carrying it around with me all day and it was funny how different poor kids reacted to middle and rich kids. Every poorer kid looked at me carrying a country crock container and rightly assumed it had something else in it, but all the richer kids would stop me to ask why I was carrying a thing of butter. And by rich I mean midwestern, we have central heating and cooling, rich.
I vaguely remember a friend in high school doing this and my instant reply was, " what'd you bring, because I know it's not mar-jar-anne"😂
That is an entire short story. Like something that you would read in English class.
I have a massive number of yogurt containers. I use them as planters as I start tomatoes and herbs from seed in early spring.
That is a genius idea.
Same!
Thank you! Excellent idea
🎆 ~ *Me2!!!* 🤣 🪴🪴🪴 Lol - i have a box full of empty yogurt containers - i use 'em a lot!!! Like, to scoop out potting soil from the big plastic bags & put it into clay pots at planting/transplanting time - & to top-off potted plants with an inch of new soil on top.
When my fav Greek yogurt company re-designed their containers, i saved my last original one & use it to rinse the bathtub after cleaning it (luvvv seeing it still - good times lol!).
Plus, I propagate new house plants from my established ones by rooting cuttings in water, & then transplanting the new little 🪴 plants into yogurt containers to give 'em away to friends & to businesses I shop at. But ... ⬇️
_MOST IMPORTANT RE-USE FOR 'EM:_
✅️ 🐾 🦅🦌🦊🐝🐕🐻🐦⬛🦝🦉🐝🐈 🐾They're my *"Animal Safety Garbage"* containers, too (those big orange juice bottles/jugs, too) - ever since i saw bears & birds & homeless dogs & other animals (on a TV documentary years ago) rummaging around an open landfill & eating spoiled food mixed-in with dangerous objects.😢 After i wash & dry the yogurt containers, i use 'em to hold small dangerous things that wild or stray animals could choke on & die &/or puncture their inner throats or intestines & make the animals suffer terribly B4 they die, if they scavenge the outside garbage cans/dumpsters or my uncovered county landfill. I safely dispose of harmful-to-animals objects such as broken glass, light bulbs, used batteries, toothpicks, floss, floss picks, etc. into 'em. When the container's full, then i put the lid on & completely wrap duck tape around it - totally ... like a mummy. 🤣 THEN i secure it in several retail plastic shopping bags that have NO FOOD & NO FOOD AROMAS in or on the bags to lure animals, & tie each bag in a knot 3 times ... THEN I toss it into the GARBAGE, at least knowing I did my best to protect the animals. :)
🇺🇸 Sprinkling ✝️ Blessings 💖
We also keep jars in my house. When my sister was sick, i brought her soup in a pickle jar
That's lovely I bet she enjoyed that soup so much
I use them as my water jars!
I love it when I find a good, sturdy and shallow glass jar to pour bacon grease into 🤤 perfect to spoon out of for making eggs!
We took home ham broth from my mother in law's with a mayonaise jar!
Lmao that's epic
Wisconsin Girl here! I'm ALWAYSSSSSS using old Kroger (Pick & Save) sour cream and cottage cheese containers (and yessss...cool whip containers too 🤣😆) to give extra food away to my son - homemade soups, chili, etc. since I rarely was getting my good containers back from him! Problem solved! 😁💯‼️✅️
I'm a Filipino and growing up we had a lot of ice cream tubs. Opening the fridge was a game of roulette; is it ice cream? Or fish? Or maybe leftovers 😂. My mom had a lot of tupperwares and she would only use it on occasions.
"You say hoarder, I say financially responsible." That's the specific line that got MY upvote.
It's 100% correct. Unless you're totally debt free, and have your house paid off, you're an idiot wasting money on things like fancy tupperware, when free containers are so easily available (that work perfectly).
Mr. Country Crock is going to retire a millionaire, and the other guy will be struggling to survive on SS. It's just mathematics. Save EVERY dollar, and you will get rich.
Just using this reply spot because it's near the top, the containers CAN be used in the dishwasher, just turn off the dry cycle, so it won't heat up the plastic. Sure, you'll have to dry them manually, but they'll be in one piece.
Also, some of the containers can be microwaved, just don't microwave for too long...
Same here. I do the same thing. Reuse them and then recycle them.
This isn't reddit. We use likes.
@@MrNeilR6 OP got my upvote/like bc the Reddit reference
Those Cool Whip containers never actually had Cool Whip in them growing up 😂. Just the most random stuff imaginable
My mom at least stuck a piece of tape on them as a label. At grandma's house, though, it was a guessing game 😂
To fix those stained Tupperware containers, rub a little butter (real butter) around the stained area, then put some warm water in it, dish soap, and a paper towel, close the container and shake. The butter helps with the lycopene which causes the red stains so the soap can actually remove it. Lycopene likes clinging to plastic.
I’m trying this next time!
My grandpa had a skippy peanut butter jar filled with nails. It was somewhere near 1994 when they started collecting them. Now he's gone but i use those same nails.
I do the exact, same thing. Those containers are presentable and sturdy, perfect for repurposing.
My Mexican grandma would do the same thing. She would throw out the old country crock butter container after finishing a new one to replace it. That butter tub always had the best goulash in it ❤❤❤❤❤
Women in my family had whole sets of containers. They weren't thrown out until they wouldn't stay closed or something.
Mexican grandma making goulash 🤔
@inmydarkesthour2278 Well what do you call macaroni, corn, ground beef, and tomato?
@@luishinojosa4595
My mexican mom calls it "fideo de macaroni"
Remember the disappointment of opening the butter container and finding butter?
Grey sweatshirt guy is completely unreasonable. These are all valid things.
- a southerner
I fully agree, this is completely normal.
- a New Englander
They are the same guy playing 2 parts.
@ What’re you talking about? Those are obviously two separate people, how else could they be sitting at the same table?
@@kathypelot2187 no, I'm pretty sure they're twins..
You betcha! The whole South!😂😂😂
I grew up in Washington and we did the exact same thing, tons of Country Crock and Blue Bonnet containers.
Me too, a hilarious mishap happened in 5th grade, I put spaghetti in a cool whip tub the night before. The next day I grabbed it and went to school, noticed it felt weird before putting it in the microwave, I had accidentally grabbed a tub of weed butter instead of my lunch.
We do this to some extent in New Zealand just with old Tip-Top containers. Those things can last a lifetime
as a country boy from northern idaho, the midwesterner is 100% valid and correct on his opinions.
They’ll be people on mars before people figure out which container is actually butter in my fridge 😂
There'll
Fun Fact, it's in a butter crock on the counter, because only psychopaths keep their butter in the fridge
Nah the butter is in the actual butter tub. Is the only correctly labelled thing in there and therefore no one will check it
You'd be long dead before either of those things happen XD
Butter is in the butter tray.
Same concept worked for us for gift boxes. Cereal boxes, tampon boxes sometimes even the empty carton of cigarettes. Don't trust the container or boxes! lol
I go one step further and don't bother gift wrapping or hiding it in another box. Your gift will come in a plastic grocery bag. And even then the bag will only be there for my convenience.
We absolutely use plastic bags in place of tissue paper inside a reused gift bag.
True! I'd get my gifts boxed in old pots and pans boxes, coffee maker box, etc.
I know a lady who has a whole cupboard full of those containers. She entertains a lot and uses them to send leftovers home with people. They pick the size they want and take as much as they want. I thought it was brilliant!
It is because you are not looking for that container to be returned
My parents should start doing that so I don’t keep going home with their Tupperware and not returning it.
"Why don't you just use tupperware containers?"
Because...if I did that, the chance MY lunch stays MY lunch drops by at least 75%? Nobody going to bother opening THESE containers!
Yep, lunch thieves will go for the guaranteed sandwich over the mystery bowl.
I paid for the product and the container it came in, I'll be damned if I'm letting that thing go before I get my money's worth outta it! (this sketch is painfully accurate it hurts...)
Our town just got a PSA from the local recycling facility reminding us that these containers can be recycled. Apparently they aren't seeing the number of containers they would expect. My first thought was, We're Midwesterners! We reuse before we recycle! My second thought was, We send them out of town with leftovers!
Shows the level of ignorance in the whole "recycling" program. The idea is Reduce, REUSE, then recycle. Somehow everyone goes straight to the end, which is basically throwing it away, but they still think they are doing something right. Midwesterners seem to be the last of the american people that have any sense at all.
True that!!!
The traffic lights say reduce, reuse, recycle, in that order.
Yup! I keep a box of them in the pantry to send people home with leftovers.
I grew up in Denmark (EU) but my dad was born and raised in the Midwest, and my mother had lived there for 7 years as well.
I bring my lunch to work just like that and have my entire life.
We have an entire cabinet above the junk drawer filled to the brim with those types of containers. There's also two cloth shopping bags full of plastic bags(the bags of bags) underneath the junk drawer.
Yep! I save those also.
Don't forget the pickle jars of bacon grease.
I really appreciate how the Midwest is practically the South + blizzards.
Oh my god this is the most relatable one yet. I love the Midwest
Goes into fridge at 2am, sees a container of yogurt, happily opens it to find, not yogurt, but deviled eggs and potato salad in the same container. Of course I ate the deviled eggs, that stuffs delicious
And someone likely thought they found the perfect hiding place to ensure those were still there for lunch the next day. 😂
I've never heard of such a thing as left-over deviled eggs. Must'a' been lousy ones.
@@Joy21090 my brother had hid them in there he was hoping to have them for a snack until I came along. They’re my mom’s deviled eggs and they are chefs kiss delicious. Told him it was my revenge for eating all of my molasses cookies last Christmas 😏
As long as it don't got relish in it.
It's really bad when making a grocery list. You think you already have what you need in the fridge, you buy everything else and then find out the sour cream is actually macaroni and pea salad... you can't use that as a substitute 😂
My son loves yogurt, so we go through at least 1 tub a week. Instead of tossing the containers, I keep them, cut holes in the bottom, and use them to start my seeds every season.
All my kitchen herbs are in yogurt tubs. I just glue some rope around them to hide the label.
Midwesterners invented Reduce, Re-use, Recycle😂❤
This isn't a midwestern thing. This is a generational thing. Older people (me) do this because it's a good way to save money.
Fr though, whats his damn problem? I absolutely reuse containers. Its handy and easy
So happy to see the next generation embracing this wisdom.
This is in every Hispanic household! Especially the butter lol always a good surprise in there when I visit gmas
“Don’t you dare use the good Tupperware. Use the Cool Whip container.” We’ve all heard and said that one. 😅
finishing Xmas leftovers, I found a Cool Whip container in the back of the fridge. I was so disappointed to open it up and find out it was actually Cool Whip.
Lol 🤣🤣🤣
You should've put it in the freezer and eat it like ice cream.
I've been there 😂
I've done that so many times! Why does the cool whip stick around so long? Where's the mashed potatoes I was hoping for??
Nothing's more disappointing when you go into the fridge looking for leftovers to find out that what you thought was leftovers was what is supposed to be in the container
Over a thousand childhoods summed up in under two minutes.
And that's the same people yappin about reuse, reduce and recycle but never done any of that and defending paper straw instead LMAO 🤣
And same people who just drop or intentionally loiter because they think that would barely dent the environment around them when they are 1-billions who still does this and still bitch yap cry and complain how we are destroying beautiful natural habitats with some endangered species are now even more at risk because of just garbage alone and that is not counting some places with wildfires and illegal animal trafficking/ugly poachers
I live in the south. Cool whip containers are top of the line Tupperware here.
We actually gave a guy the nickname Cool whip because of his excessive use of that container. 😂
I have literally seen Country Crock and Cool Whip containers for sale at a yard sale down South
@@larrydale5733 that's fine China that gets handed down in some parts.
I refer to them as Redneck Tupperware! that is all we had when I was a kid.
Perfectly good containers!!
Five yogurt containers in the fridge and none of them actually have yogurt 😊
Those butter (margarine) tubs, etc. are perfect for bringing a lunch meal. Once empty, simply toss them in the trash, easy cleanup.
As a Midwestern, this is accurate. Plus the those containers actually cleans better than most tubaware brands 😂😂
Grandma will still call me for failing to return one! It’s a butter container! 😅
I love that! My mom did too! She had 25 more!!!!!
@ always 😂
Can't forget to returns Nana's butter container otherwise you only get those spaghetti burned ones with sweets in them... She knew what she was doing
If you aren't using leftover containers like these as Tupperware you think too highly of yourself
Can literally get an entire set of glass leak proof Tupperware for $50. 😂
@@alexfinn7989 Glass Tupperware is something that sounds like a good idea until you have to handle wet ones straight from the fridge.
One or two slippages leading to broken glass is all I needed to reconsider "straight glass" containers.
Old Mason jars (either with label or some form of ridges), however... that's a pristine place to put soups and sauces into.
Or care about your health. Those containers can't handle heat or harsh cleaning. Even putting food in them while it's still hot can be a problem. I use that kind of stuff, but not for lunch or left overs. They can work good for stuff like cookies or maybe if to give elft overs for a guest so that you don't have to worry about them bringing the container back.
@@AkranejamesI use glass at home, vut when I used to take lunch to work it was always plastic, because of the risk of breaking the glass ones.
@@tonymouannes I honestly tend to just wrap glass up to limit breakage if I can, which is a concept that works both for the fridge and lunch.
Still, glass shattering at the slightest provocation will always stay glass' main, horrible flaw.
We do this in Texas too. I don't believe we ever through out a cool whip container in our lives. 😂❤
Bro is definitely invited to the cookout
I can confirm as a born and raised Midwesterner, this is true!
My wife packs my lunch the same way. I love it!😂😅
I never throw away a bread bag either, reuse it at least once. My ma grew up in the depression and passed it down.
I thought I was the only one. When I am making a sandwich with the last two slices of a loaf, sandwich goes back in the bag instead of wasting a new unused bag. Works great!
I've used them as little trash bags and storage bags many times
My family washes zip lock bags and freezer bags too. We make our own bread and mill our own flour fresh. So we don't get those bags anymore. But work with what you've got, right?😊
There's a sandwich bag drying in my kitchen right now😂
When I was a kid, my mom had me and brother put bread bags over our socks before going out to play in the snow. Warm dry feet all day! They also came in handy for bathing whenever I broke anything from the elbow down, keeping the plaster casts from getting wet. A rubber band from bunches of green onions was usually what kept the bags in place over the casts.
@billcollins7009 very resourceful!
This isn't mid western. This is American 😂😂
No it's Midwestern you wanna know how I know because if you go into any Michigan or Wisconsin house every single fucking person is putting either venison stew or some sort of pickled deer heart or pickled sausage with the deer heart like it's not just gonna be some fucking macaroni and beans it's gonna be shit we hunted for
@Atlasintokyo wisco here and this is undoubtedly a fact. I moved to Florida (I hate it here please honest to God cross my heart let me pass in my sleep) but i can confirm, homes ive been to here do not seem to do this very often.
As a member of the south my whole damn life. Georgia. I can confirm they stole it from us. 😅
@@jodysales2362that’s what I’m saying. I’ve been in Georgia 25 years and Florida for 12 and everywhere I’ve been my whole life does this 😂
@@Atlasintokyo Guy in the video was eating lasagna and pie, not pickled deer heart or any other weird crap someone cut out of a deer. (Venison stew sounds pretty good though.)
These guys are great and Spot on! Like how he said "hooorrders", Lol.😂
Okay this has always been my favorite story but dam that musical is GOOD!!!
Just listened to it completely and yeah this is going on repeat for the next week or so 😅❤
Yea man especially after Thanksgiving your gonna have a fridge full of those containers all with something different in it.
The critical dude has his lunch in a re-used Take Out container. Pot, meet Kettle.
They do sell those for purchase. But then you use them more than one time, so I guess that's the same thing 😅
I will even make purchasing decisions based on the container. Will it be possible to use for leftovers? The only container I don’t reuse is the peanut butter jar. Yes, it has a wide top and a screw on lid, but it is so hard to wash out. I don’t have a dishwasher. I heard a comedian (can’t remember who) say that in their large family, all the salad bowls said Cool Whip on them. Right on!
Jeff foxworthy
Peanut Butter Jars are perfect for the Garage Screw Jar.
Great for freezer jam or freezing apple sauce!
That's fine. You're doing pretty good.
If you ever did want to save a PB jar, start by wiping out the inside with a paper towel a few times, then soak the inside in good, hot, soapy water. Use a bottle brush to clean it after it soaks.
Good for freezing stuff, like apple sauce, as other people have mentioned.
That is exactly how I choose food items that come in glass jars!!! 😂😂
Will this jar make good food storage?
The comment about the regular containers all having spaghetti stains is my family i kid you not!! 😂😂😂 This is so relatable
The fact that you had the ultimate Midwestern argument with yourself, playing two characters, impressive and amusing 😏😂
To be fair, the pie fit great in the cool whip container and the cool whip fits in any container, but storing them together would've made the pie go soggy.
Yeah... that one also applies to Ohio. Plus, keeping any to go cup that seems particularly sturdy.
i reuse gas station coffe cup. forever.
I also wash and reuse the plastic containers my takeout is delivered in! Worse I *also* have actual Tupperware container sets (plastic & glass)!
"Why didn't you just - nevermind"
The facepalm had me 😂😂
Yeah, some people look at the Midwesterners like we're nuts, but actually, we're just very resourceful.
I've definitely done stuff like reuse containers instead of buying expensive bullshit from the store.
It’s a Southern thing, too.
It's an everywhere thing, especially for those of us who grew up with frugal parents.
I'm talking about a whole second fridge fill with just containers never containing what it was supposed to.
@@DEC3TheWokeProject- I was raised this way. Didn't realize until HS that it's considered somewhat abnormal to re-use these types of containers and wash your non-greasy ziplock bags to be re-purposed.
Shrug. Some of us know how to save a bit of money. We don't need some fancy, pretty container 😂
@@return2basics242 Same. The first time I heard it was weird to do was my friend's mom saying she had never even heard of the concept of reusing plastic food containers. I mean, it just makes so much sense to do it. You need containers, they work, why wouldn't you.
@darwinxavier3516 Exactly.
If the economy continues in the direction it's been heading, lots & lots of people who are unfamiliar with this concept are gonna think they're geniuses here pretty soon WHEN they realize these containers are salvageable & reusable.
They'll soon discover they can save lots of money while we won't benefit from it because we've already been living this "cheapskate" trick of a lifestyle our whole lives.
If that day ever comes though where literally every penny counts, there goes the daily "Starbucks" $10 cups of coffee. Welcome to an even playing field! LOL! Who has an upper hand now, chumps?!
We've been practicing for YEARS! We aren't giving anything up, learning anything new, changing any routines, but we are laughing at you struggling to adjust, LOL. Plus, we've been saving those used & dried coffee grounds and adding it to our gardens for supplemental nutrients all this time, too. Bet they toss out their egg shells as well, LOL!!!
This brings back so many memories 😂
My mom still uses the container of sour cream, butter and others to use for leftovers.😊
Lol heck yeah 😂 that's how my mom packs my dad's lunch 😂 we even have our sowing stuff in cookie tins ❤
This is so accurate brining back childhood memories 😂
Grew up like this too 😂
We Midwesterners are resourceful. We will use the cottage cheese container and that as make shift leftover holders.
You just described the video, did you watch it?
The cool whip in the cottage cheese is family guy level humor ahhaha
Pardon me, ma'am... it looks like you sat in some cottage cheese! Ohhhh! That's your asssss!
🤣🤣🤣. I'm not from the Midwest, but you bet your bottom dollar that we used those containers for leftovers. (Mainly the cool whip ones). When we cleaned out my Momma's house to sell it, she had so many of those kinds of containers. We did throw them away. Miss you Mom!
I feel I graduated when I went from reusing cool whip tubs to reusing old takeout containers. You can actually microwave those!
my grandma taught me to do this; she also reuses the plastic bags from inside of cereal boxes lol.
it’s is quite resourceful and frugal, but it’s also a more green decision because unfortunately these types of plastics are rarely recycled anymore despite the container saying they’re recyclable, so they’re being repurposed instead of ending up in a landfill :)
though, it can be kind of startling to go to the fridge for some midnight yogurt and open the tub to instead be confronted with a giant lump of spaghetti
My grandma used to send my dad and his siblings to school with their lunch sandwiches wrapped in the little baggie that newspapers came in...when you're born in 1933, you've lived through some stuff
😂🤘
What is the use for cereal plastic bags?
@@matthewkafka9566 wow! well, it’s all plastic and it works, so why not, right? sounds like your grandma was thrifty and clever :) yeah that generation went through a lot and were hardened into diamonds
@@Joy21090 mainly dry stuff like cookies, chex mix, puppy chow, homemade dried fruit & hard candies, etc., or to pack a sandwich - basically in place of a ziplock bag. she also reuses bread bags for similar stuff & sweetbreads
Okay I normally use containers like that sometimes to put my food in they're fine as long as you wash them and dry them and they're good to eat out of
Im Southwestern, and my family does this.
I still do this! Especially when my yogurt comes in perfectly sized glass containers 😆
Mom always saved jars and containers for storing leftovers 😊❤
They were born at a time when money was tight and you had to be resourceful
My Grandma is from Kansas so I totally get it!
Anyone else reuse ziplock sandwich bags for weeks?
If it's for dry food then yes.
yep, i mean why not, they’re washable, and that plastic can’t be recycled so it’s better than ending up in a landfill
Pfffft. I don't BUY those expensive bags, but if someone gives me food in one, I'm damn sure gonna use the hell out of it.
I order Chinese food when I need new plastic containers.
So do we.😂
I grew up this way lol anyway to save a couple bucks anywhere you can
Did the same thing to paper towels, cut them in 3s and now you have nice and sturdy toilet paper
Yes! 😂 Even since I was a kid, this is the way it is done! 😂
Putting Cool whip which already comes with a container in another container is a sin....
Not if you only need one scoop from a full Cool Whip.
The spaghetti stains.....yes I felt that. I hate the red stains on my Tupperware all that red dye.
Need to use glass. Our parents used this crap, if you're gonna use it, at least heat the food up on a paper plate so you don't put chemicals into the food.
Yeah it’s not good to use these. We know better now.
Looks like he’s eating them cold.
@@AdamYJ cause you didn't see them heat it up or you just guessed at that conclusion?
@@AdamYJYep. Faster. Safer. More Healthy.
When my kids were little they would go to grandma's pull out all the country crock containers and try to guess which one held the butter.😃
Funny thing is I often buy things not for their contents, but for their containers. Like Jimmy's popcorn buckets, so versatile.