What a score, congratulations! I would ask for more information on this online auction but it is probably something I should stay away from. :)

tishtosh, it's a local place, you can go there and see the items before you bid, and then you have to go pick them up. They'll sell your stuff for $2 a listing and they have everything from maple syrup to campers to vehicles to baking pans to designer purses, furniture, musical instruments, jewelry. They even sold a parrot once! They'll sell anything except used clothing and bedding or stuffed animals, and they make exceptions for hunting clothes, those they sell.

They don't ship, you have to pick up whatever you buy and you have to deliver your items for sale to them and fill out their description form. Ours is called JNJ Online Auction, but I know a lot of places have them. Your area might have one, you should check it out!

Annie

Annie, in case you don't know, the green Tupperware "bowl and lid" is an iceberg lettuce keeper. The long green box and lid is a celery keeper, and it does keep it crisp longer.

What a gorgeous score! Big foodie treasure. I'm like tosh Tosh, don't wanna know. Annie, you are going to have to rent a storage pod or space for all your stuff. Or bequeath to the grands on tHe condition that their moms store the stuff. Those bundlets may be the prized Nordicware, rather than Wilton. But who can keep track of such high quality products?

Thanks, Sheilajoyce, I knew the bowl was for lettuce but had no clue what the long one was for, there's an insert inside, I don't know if it goes with the container or is something else entirely!

Westsider, as I've collected "good" stuff, I've gotten rid of the old cheap stuff, or I would definitely not have room. I have far too much "cake" stuff now, but I try to get rid of something every time I get something. Sometimes that works, LOL. I got rid of a Winnie the Pooh cake pan and a tree shaped one that I already had two of and a single "topsy turvy" cake pan I've never used and a couple of those really cheap and flimsy 6 cup muffin tins, as well as a silicone "double boiler" that didn't work well (or at all!), and my old flimsy springform pan. My girls take some of it and some goes back to the auction, so that I can then have an excuse to buy more. (grin)

Annie

Annie, it goes with the container. It's to keep the celery off the bottom of the keeper, so no moisture/slime forms. It will keep celery for weeks.

The lettuce bowl originally came with an insert, too. I remember it as a small spike. You were supposed to remove the core of the (iceberg) lettuce and stick it on the spike in the bowl to store it. I still have my lettuce bowl, but the insert disappeared many years ago.

Yes, I have the insert too, and Mother used to have one of them, so I knew that that was. (Although I detest iceburg lettuce, my husband loves the stuff, so I might actually use that!)

My question is about the celery keeper. When I add the insert, it takes up enough space that I can't put a "head" of celery in it, I have to take it apart into stalks. Is that what I'm supposed to do, any stalk of celery I've ever gotten is far too big to fit into that container with the insert in it.

If no one sees this, I'll start another thread.....

Annie

WOW!, Annie, that is an amazing 'haul'! ! ! Lucky you! I'm green with envy, I have never EVER found a deal like that, anywhere!

I have both the lettuce keeper and the celery keeper, haven't used them in many years. (Yes, MANY years!) I just couldn't tell that either of them made a bit of difference in how the lettuce and celery kept. Plus, at the time, I had a fairly small refrigerator, and a house full of growing boys, so refrigerator space was always at a premium. I thought they (the Tupperware, not the boys, grin) took up way too much space. Especially since they didn't work any better than the crisper drawer in the refrigerator did.

If you don't really need those Pyrex bowls, you might check their value, some of that vintage Pyrex is bringing in some fairly big bucks these days.

Enjoy your 'haul'! I'll bet Monkey Princess will be excited to 'help' you enjoy those pans!

Rusty

All that for $9......and quality too. Good for you....I have a set of aqua Pyrex nesting bowls from christmas 1964....from my in laws. I use to use all the time, now occasionally, don't want anything to happen to them....At a sister in laws sale I bought two sets for daughter, one pink and one aqua. They are vintage and pricey on eBay...I understand how you would like that local auction....

Keep the celery head together.

If your celery keeper insert is the flat grid like in the photo, its the correct insert for the container. Its suppose to keep clean, washed celery up out of pools of moisture so the celery lasts longer. The idea is to always have celery clean and ready to use.

I've kept celery in mine both ways, separated and washed but also whole. I'll bet celery is being grown (esp if you're growing your own) supersized compared to yesteryear.

Thanks for the picture, Maddielee. It looks like what I actually have is not the correct insert, it's the top of a Tupperware grater (who knew that could happen?). It looks like this one, with a rounded handle, the piece on the top.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Tupperware-Jadeite-3-Piece-Shreader-Veggie-Celery-Keeper-Crisper-/112431578967?hash=item1a2d71bf57:g:MhoAAOSw2gxYwDxF

Even without the insert, though, an entire stalk of celery won't fit inside and still leave room for the lid to close, so maybe Olychick is right, celery is bigger, maybe.

Rusty, I have that GE refrigerator that I mostly like, french doors and a bottom freezer. However, anything in the bottom of the crisper drawers freeze. I've tried putting in blocks of styrofoam, those padded plastic pieces of bubble wrap, even folded towels, but everything in the crisper drawer freezes. Maybe because the crisper drawers sit right on top of the freezer? I don't know. Anyway, I'm going to try that celery keeper and see if that helps. The lettuce always has to go on a shelf to avoid freezing, because Elery doesn't like it frozen and soggy, go figure. (grin) If celery or carrots freeze, I can still toss them into the pan to make my mirepoix or whatever but frozen iceburg lettuce is only fit for chicken food.

Shirl, Amanda has a set of four pink Pyrex nesting bowls that were my Grandmother's, so I'm thinking Ashley is probably going to lay claim to this set! I have a cabinet full of pyrex casserole dishes and I use them all the time, love the things. The Princess is always excited to try new kitchen stuff, especially if she gets to eat the results!

Annie

What a great haul! congratulations. With a bounty that good, it would be tough to stay away from that local auction. I don't want to even know if there is one near me.

I have the celery keeper. I cut up a bunch into about the size of the width of container and keep that and cut up carrots in it. I think it does help make it last longer. Mine doesn't have a drain/grid either.

Annie, re: freezing of veggies. Try this: On a not too hot night, unplug or turn off your whole refrigerator and leave it off overnight (things should be fine). My repair person, when I said I might as well make an appt for a week out to fix the refer because it was surely going to go on the fritz (after I'd had him here one week for my dishwasher, the next week for my range, the next week for my washer AND dryer) told me that often problems with refer are caused by ice build up somewhere where it shouldn't be. If you let it sit without running for a long enough time to melt that rogue ice, it will often fix any problems you are having - with things like freezing food. He did a great job repairing every one of my appliances, so I trust his word (my refer didn't break as I'd anticipated).

I told this to a friend recently who was having some problems with her refer (it wasn't freezing food, but I don't remember what it was) and it fixed it!

Thanks, Olychick, I'll try that. This fridge is only 2 years old and I think it's done it since we bought it, but I don't remember. Unplugging it doesn't cost anything, so I'll give it a go!

Annie