My Tupperware Party Was Over and I Sat Down and Cried
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Many years later, in January 1956, at the large warehouse of Poly Sales Company in
As I watched the men from Tupperware headquarters and saw the intense anger with which they did that job, their behavior jogged my memory as to how much they were behaving like those whiskey raiders did so long before. Our Poly Sales was being torn apart just like that house had been. I shook my head in disbelief. I said, “Peter, look at how angry those men are. Just look at how they’re throwing our Tupperware around!”
The Tupperware they didn’t put in the trucks was thrown in a corner, like broken toys at a rummage sale.
When I saw the literal disregard the men had for the Tupperware we had nurtured and sold by encouraging people to love it, I was angry enough to throw them out. After all, they were on our turf and it was our merchandise.
My grief over the sickening, immoral act perpetrated against our Poly Sales Company, consumed me more than all else.
As the Tupperware crew was working at the removal of our Tupperware, I went down to the lower level of our warehouse and picked up an armful of new velvet drop clothes we had just purchased to enhance our dealers’ Tupperware displays for the coming year and I called out loudly, “There isn’t one person from that home office who knows what it takes to build a business like this. Not one!” And those words echoed back at me from off the walls made empty that morning.
I then sat down alone in the lower level of our warehouse and splashed tears over the horrible moral decay that I saw played out to its fullest extent that day and wrestled with, “What is our world coming to?”
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In My Tupperware Party was Over and I Sat Down and Cried,
Mrs. Block skillfully relives for you the Tupperware experience – the party. She shows the lighter, almost hilarious, moments experienced by guests and dealers alike. She shows the reader how she crafted the meetings and parties to be an exhilarating experience for everyone involved. It was truly an electrifying moment. The reader will be fascinated by the author’s unfolding the secrets behind why Tupperware became so popular. As Phil Grosso, past president of
Today, with the home business market expanding rapidly, Mrs. Block explains the key points on how to be a successful salesperson in any chosen field or market that a dedicated entrepreneur enters. The book is not all laughs. The author also reflects on the downside of the ethical and moral problems that plague many businesses today.
The author’s hope and prayer is that the reader will be far more prepared than she was in knowing what to do when a dire situation presents itself in their lives. Hopefully, by living the Blocks’ experience the reader will gain insight into the problems.
About the Author
Elsie Block was born in 1913 in