I've owned Tupperware for a long, long time. I'm pretty sure I made my first Tupperware party purchase back in 1990. I received Tupperware for my wedding in 1993. I went to a few parties in the mid to late 90s, and hosted a Tupperware party of my own in 2000. In the late 2000s I switched to buying glass containers for things I didn't all ready own that size of container for (like microwavable leftovers to go in lunch boxes), but I did not give up using the Tupperware that I own. Yes, it's plastic, but it's Tupperware and you can't make me give it up. LOL.
Through the decades, some of the lids have died. Warped, melted, cracked. . . some through misuse (I confess to boiling a few lids in 1992 in the name of sterilization after a mouse invasion of our student rental while DH and I were gone home for Christmas break his 4th year of college. Plastic lid in boiling water, yeah, they didn't fit the bowls anymore after that. Rookie mistake.) and the rest just due to repeated use through the years. Used to be Tupperware had a lifetime guarantee (except if you boiled the lids or otherwise damaged them by your own stupidity) and you could call up your local Tupperware rep, give them the broken item and it would be replaced free of charge.
In the late 2000s, it got harder and harder to find a Tupperware rep (my friend who was one moved to Wyoming, so that wasn't gonna work for replacements anymore), and I started to stockpile my increasing amount of cracked lids. I hoped to find someone local who was a Tupperware rep that I could get together with and exchange my broken ones for new ones. But, even looking online, I couldn't come up with anyone within an hour's drive. At least, not one who got back to me about free replacements.
In late 2025, out of desperation (and wondering why I had about a dozen broken lids in a box, and corresponding containers in my cupboards that couldn't easily be used without a lid), I searched on the Tupperware site itself not for a local rep, but for info on how to turn in broken Tupperware for a free replacement. And found zero about lids. A little bit, here and there, about a few other items, but nothing about replacing lids.
I even tried looking up just coughing up cash for new lids that were the same sizes and shapes as the ones I needed to replace. On the Tupperware site, I found pretty much nothing. I could order all new sets of containers with lids, but I could not order just a lid.
After several more months of soul searching "Do I give away all these lidless containers? Do I keep trying to use them with plastic wrap or foil as a lid (which really didn't work for me)?" I hit upon an acceptable to me answer: Buy new (old, used, whatever I could get) lids on eBay. So I made a list of the model (serial?) numbers that were on my broken ones, finally threw out the box of cracked lids, and started watching eBay for Tupperware lids.
When I find a few in the size that I'm looking for, I add them to my watchlist, then wait. No impulse buying allowed. I compare price plus shipping, figure up how much I want to spend on each individual item, and wait some more. Often, within a few days of a listing being added to my watchlist, the seller will send me an offer. If I feel that discounted price is within what I want to spend, I accept. Otherwise, I keep waiting and search again for that particular size lid after a few weeks have gone by.
At first, it was nice to just have not cracked lids on things like my big square storage containers that I use as flour and sugar cannisters. A replacement lid was appreciated.
But recently, I scored a new lid for my biggest Wonderlier bowl, the one whose lid I'd accidentally killed by boiling after the mouse incident of January 1992. I was excited to finally have a lid for that again. Not just any lid, but the exact shade of the one I'd warped beyond measure. I put it on the bowl after using the bowl to mix up a batch of cookie dough that needed to be chilled, and seeing that bowl covered by it's proper lid (not plastic wrap! not aluminum foil!) again after 34 years brought me such a thrill!*
So much so that I immediately had to jump on eBay and see what else of my replacement lid list might currently be offered. And, not only if it was offered, but if I could get it in the original color I'd had. Add to watchlist. Wait.
I might be addicted.
But no longer will I have perfectly usable Tupperware bowls and containers languishing in my cupboards for lack of a lid.
*You may be wondering why, if I ruined the lid in 1992, I didn't turn it in for a free replacement back in the 90s when there were still Tupperware parties going on frequently and I knew Tupperware reps. Why did I wait until 2026 to replace the lid?? That's because in 1992 I didn't know about free replacement (and even if I had, technically it was my fault--and not the company's error-- that the lid needed replacing) and I threw the warped lid away. Without a lid to turn in, I couldn't get a free replacement, and back in the 90s raising four kids there was rarely money to spare on a pricey (it seemed at the time) new lid when plastic wrap and aluminum foil could do the job (sorta, never to my satisfaction).
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