{"id":786,"date":"2015-04-29T19:27:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T19:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/?p=786"},"modified":"2015-05-03T19:09:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T19:09:23","slug":"materialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slaneporter.com\/blog\/random\/materialism","title":{"rendered":"Materialism in Elementary School aka The Lost Lunch Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the late 70’s early 80’s, Tupperware came out with this lunch box which for for all intents and purposes was inspired by a Japanese bento box.<\/p>\n

We weren’t well off enough to splurge on Tupperware, nor did my family like to waste money on things that had simpler utilitarian alternatives (brown bags). So I’m pretty sure when I DID get one (after much parental convincing), it was close to the only Tupperware in the house and I treated it like the Ark of the Covenant.<\/p>\n

I kept it so clean, mothering it, polishing it dry, all for the next day’s lunch adventure. Then after maybe a month of ownership, perhaps even less, it was stolen.<\/p>\n

Two days later, I accused another student of stealing it because she had the exact same model and I could see my name scrawled on the bottom before she yanked it closer to her chest to hide my handwriting.<\/p>\n

I never pushed the issue. I don’t know why. I think I was partially mortified that someone that close to me (small school) would do something so horrible. I was also smart enough to realize that if I asked again, the name might be removed so it was a pointless venture to try to ask or point it out again.<\/p>\n

I felt injustice by my own hand by not doing anything. People steal, this wasn’t a new concept, but friends or classmates stealing and then protesting their obvious theft? I was dead inside after that. Dead to material ownership of things. Why bother lusting after something everyone wants? Someone will just take it. It’s not worth it.<\/p>\n

I still miss you lunch box.<\/p>\n

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Photograph Provided by Vintage Goodness with permission. See Below for more Info.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I hope your new owner thinks about her theft every day and that it has carved a deep, stale, tupperware-plastic, smelly hole in her heart.<\/p>\n

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This post was inspired by a Reddit user posing the question:\u00a0What mild injustice was done to you as a child that you are still mad about?<\/a>. \u00a0I recommend you read the other responses, it will be an interesting\u00a0respite\u00a0from\u00a0the harsh\u00a0day.<\/p>\n

The amazing photograph of The Lunchbox was published with\u00a0permission by Mitzi Swisher of Vintage Goodness<\/a>. Check out her fabulous blog for all things mid century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the late 70’s early 80’s, Tupperware came out with this lunch box which for for all intents and purposes was inspired by a Japanese bento box. We weren’t well off enough to splurge on Tupperware, nor did my family like to waste money on things that had simpler utilitarian alternatives (brown bags). So … <\/p>\n

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