The layby thing baffles me, do they hold it for you until it's paid?? Do you have to go into the shop every week to pay a bit off? How long do they hold it for???

Very confusing but a BIG thing in Oz

Thing is, it really is Layby for a $20 item!!!! I know someone that bought her daughter some clothes and it all came to about $25, she had to put one of the items back as it was reduced to $10 and they wouldn't let a reduced item be bought on layby.

I don't understand this. I couldn't be bothered going back making down payments. Why not just save, then buy it, I don't really like the idea of a shop having my money before I can take the goods.

Didn't the UK have something like this in the 70's?

I've seen people in the front of the queue paying off as little as a $1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They probably only spent about $10 in the first place!!

I think you should buy something Diane and tell us all how it works!!!

I think I 've got it.

Make some pickles, wrap them up in a home made quilt, go to a tupperwear party and talk about what you put on Layby, while eating some homemade scones with homemade butter then invite everyone round to your next candle party. Hell girls heres to the 50's

Ok Perth Girls Night out is now cancelled, going to a tupperware party/candle (?) party/quilt party sounds like much more fun than spotting expats in nippless tops & leather boob tubes!!

:scared:

Its still going strong up here in N.England, not obviously in the large city centre stores but go to any little "deprived" town or a market and they will do it. I personally wouldnt do it I have loads of credit cards lol but some people cant get them and some little shops dont even take them anyway

Is that what they mean by 'no rainchecks'??

On the weird party pickling homemade quilts smeared with homemade butter front, my wife has been invited to a jigsaw party!

(For the disbelievers in the UK, this is true)

Sydney has moved on. It is now in the eighties.

But are there any Ann Summers type parties?!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by janeyray
An Aussie friend invited me to a 'Tupperware' party last night.

There were all these ladies sitting around and admiring a blanet and quilt that some lady had made herself!!!!! My friend introduced me and told them that my mum use to sell Tupperware back in the UK (1970's) and that the Uk have stopped selling it now. There was a moment of silence as they all looked at me in surprise

" How do you live without your Tupperware?!!" one woman said!!!!

"NO!!! How awful!" said another

I tried to act calm and pretend I was in some kind of nightmare and that I would soon be waking up!!! I listened in a kind of haze as a plastic item that was "ideal for keeping your homemade butter in" was passed around!

Hi all,

And I tought my aussie friend here was just a little of beat she claims to have sold tupperware all over Brisbane, and I have never seen a house so full of the stuff, I hate tupperware parties they are sooooo boring and yes the stuff is usefull if you ever remember to use it and if you can be bothered to put all your co co pops in those containers, as for jigsaw parties
:scared:

Suz

Hi All

I hate to say it, but these parties are alive and well where I live in the UK!! Now I do live in a little village (bit of a 'Sleepy Hollow'!)
but so far have had the misfortune to be invited to several candle parties, Virgin Vie, Tupperware, silver jewellery and god forbid, a card and wrapping paper party. Now can you imagine how much fun that could of been . If only I could have made it, but unfortunately I was busy watching paint dry that morning........!!!!

Can't wait to get to Perth, I should feel right at home!!

Sam

Tupper parties have been scrapped here and you can now buy them hassle-free in the shops, no need to watch the paint dry anymore,

I always hated that thing, that you pick something you'd actually like and then somebody else gets to nick it from you and you end up with something "useful" like a plastic coffee stirrer!

sashimi

'Tis true, I'm afraid - the "fun evening in" that was Tupperware is no more. As an Ann Summers rep I spent most of April and May recruiting old tupperware reps and turning them into Ann Summers reps - no mean feat I can tell you! The only similarity being that we both work with objects made from plastic!!!