Perhaps yer too boring

I remember the old Loverware parties - your guests spend over a certain amount and they call a male stripper......now they were real crap - I went to one and the stripper grabbed my hand and tried to put it on his genitals and offered a romp in the bedroom! He was dressed and the grim reaper and was really scary. I hate any kind of party plan party, sometimes used to go in my early days out of a sense of obligation and for the free food, but I never get invited anymore because a) everyone knows I wouldn't go and b) the people I hang with just aren't into that sort of thing.

I have a Tupperware rice cooker for the microwave; it was a wedding present in 1989. It's outlived the marriage by, oooh, 20 years, lived on 3 continents and - um, never been used.

I've no idea why I keep it

I keep everything in glass jars. Plastic is evil.

My New Years resolution is to not buy anymore Tupperware. My friend is a "demonstrator", I've been to numerous parties, pressured into buying, even had my own party (did get $130 of free stuff though )

But I think it's overrated and expensive for what it is. Yes it has a lifetime guarantee but you could buy the cheap version ten times over and still not spend the same amount of money.

My rice cooker doesn't work! Have followed the instructions, adjusted them and still the rice comes out sloppy and crap! Much easier to cook it on the hob - old school!!

Can I join, I hate the stuff too. Anyway I'm far too tight to pay that kind of money for a plastic tub

The friends starting to sell things is a pain, isn't it.

I was chatting with a friend/colleague on Friday and she casually asked what cleaning products I use. When I told her she said, oh I use xyz, in fact I've just started selling it, I will bring some to show you and see if you want to use it too. Then she got an Avon-type catalogue out of her bag and proceeded to show me some shit costume jewellery, asked for my opinion on it, and didn't seem too pleased when I gave it

Another colleague I socialise with said the other day he's going to invite me to something soon. Turns out it's MLM selling products "ladies like".

Every other person seems to be a bloody hustler. Great way to end a friendship, methinks.

I have a confession to make.

I used to sell virgin vie

Got myself hooked on the skin care products and to supply my habit I became a dealer, Am ashamed to say I branched out into the cosmetics side too ...luckily I am now 10 years clean having recognized that there was a glass ceiling on earnings and thAt my area manager was a rip off merchant.

Had a brochure from a smelly candle sales lady yesterday, HE went to pick up an ikea bookcase off of gumtree and she gave him a catelogue and asked him if I wanted a "party"... $50 for 3 voltives??? $79 for a 15cm x 15cm candle???? Edinburgh crystal is cheaper ffs

Tell HIM to have the party then. That'll put him off accepting catalogues off strange women again.

Having shown him the brochure I was going to nip to Coles, pick up a couple of boxes of their cheapo ones, tell him they cost him $199 and pocket the difference to spend at the English sweet shop .... Do you think HEd fall for it?

Mine would so it's possible yours would too.

I haven't been to many Tupperware parties, thank God, but the last one I went to was a cracker. The salesperson (you'll see why I'm saying "person") or demonstrator, performed the whole gig in drag. Yep, a gay man dressed up as a woman, complete with stockings, bodysuit type of lingerie, wigs, make-up and false eye-lashes, singing and dancing before flogging his wares - plastic ones, that is. You might say it was a unique marketing approach to selling Tupperware, a sort of Priscilla, Queen of the Tupperware.