*I may have been talking to Jeff Mitchell at lunch the other day when I realized that the Easy Find Lids are not a product of Tupperware, but of Rubber Maid. So what I wrote below was meaningless because Tupperware is having the problem, and Bill is using the Rubber Maid products.

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All things come to an end, but the recent announcement that Tupperware was filing for bankruptcy, was disappointing. Why? Well, I have used the Tupperware Easy Find Lids sets for many years. I think I always bought it from Walmart and I’m pretty sure I’ve bought at least two 20 item sets. Clear plastic bowls with red tops. I still prefer the lids that don’t have the vents.

Sears came and went. By the time she went, I wasn’t a regular shopper, but it is difficult to imagine how popular Sears was when I was growing up. There was no Walmart or Amazon, or web. You got the seasonal Sears catalogs, looked though them, and perhaps folded the page corners to remind you of something you liked on a page. The Christmas catalog was a separate issue. Many of the pages were not in color.

Surprisingly, Roses Department Stores have lasted to present day. How? I rarely go into a Roses, but there is one near a Food Lion that I frequently visit. I think I was looking for a chess set the last time I visited this Roses and they didn’t have it. A combination checkers/chess set (using the same red & black board) with cheap shiny plastic pieces was always a part of the games in the toys section of a store.