Kitchen

[aroc3435]

@house_cat   I understand your plight because I experienced this with some of my colleauges when I worked (and to a person it was always the higher paid upper management that purloined my Lock & Lock or Pyrex) so I  thereafter used the Glad storage containers from the supermarket or the dollar store type disposable foil with lid types when bringing food to the workplace gatherings.

I bet you especially miss the domed cupcake holders.  They are precious looking.  I must have missed the presentations for those, despite being a faithful kitchen show viewer.

My daughter admits to "forgetting" to return my Lock & Lock since I moved here (and she teases me--eye roll and all--about my QVC shopping) so I ordered some extras especially for her and told her to keep them when I brought food to her house.

I notice she uses the small ones for packing food for the snacks my grandsons need for daycare, pre K 3, and kindergarden.

So, unless you intend to give the container and contents away my solution is the same as others have suggested--use something else to hand over your generous leftovers or you'll be out of all your L & L in no time! 

[laundrycat]

I made the mistake of giving some soup to a newer, sick friend at the time in a L&L, which obviously  is not a dollar store container.   My family, friends and I always give containers back even if it's dollar store.  But that's just us.

Fast foward a few months, I bit the bullett and asked for the container back and she was like oh, gosh Idk, let me talk to my son.. blah blah blah.  I said that;'s okay no biggie. Haven't heard a word since.

This is the same type of person who calls you at 11:00 in the morning to do something at 1:30.  But they're all love and light, dontcha know.

Lesson learned, always use dollar store  containers. 

[house_cat]

I need to work on making my OPs more clear, because they are often misunderstood.  I really don't care whether or not I get them back... I have lots more and I love my friends, so I'd happily give them as gifts if they asked.  I simply don't understand HOW a person forgets to return something - it's just not in my nature.  I would wash it out that very night and have it packed with my work things to return the next day.

The reason I use L&L when I bring things to work is because we have a tendency to get ants in our classrooms.  If someone left a cupcake out on the desk all day, expecting to eat it in the afternoon, it might have "living sprinkles" on it by then.

[colliemom4]

I used to read a lot and let people barrow books which were rarely returned. I don't understand people either. One person did say they lost a book I let them barrow lol.

[house_cat]

@colliemom4 

I learned my lesson with books - never lend one that you can't live without.  Even worse is when someone lends me a book they think I'll like - I always have a lineup of books waiting to be read, so if you lend me one, it's just one more thing I have to remember to return.

[ECBG]

Mine doesn't.   I use plastic bags, paper  plates,  aluminum  foil and cottage cheese containers.  

Works for me!

[laundrycat]

That''s so true colliemom.   I have learned not to lend out anything.  i gave my new friend a test.   Sad isn't it.   There aren't many of us who read books anymore either. 

I can understand young people not getting it.  But older adults who treat you with no respect or a kind word when we give what little we have, then we have to be smar.t Each situtation is different, don't mean to be dramatic  

[Pooky1]

house cat it happens alot. if were giving out food to someone that we know doesnt return stuff we usually have containers that food came in like cool whip and give them out.

[panda1234]

There also are styrofoam "clam shells" used for takeout. These are sold at Costco and work well.

[candys mine]

I will and have initialed my pieces of L&L If I want them to remain mine.  If I intend it as a gift or don't mind losing it I don't.  Saves a lot of "whose L&L is this one" when there have been lots brought to a function.  ( that's another reason why I volunteer to help with the party clean up....Oh Yay!  THERE'S my cake carrier! I thought I'd Lost it!).