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Basket obsession. A confession.

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  • taurusgb
    taurusgb Posts: 909 Forumite
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    It isn't just the look or the usefulness of them is it...they're just so...cozy!
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  • [Deleted User]
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    yes they are. I love stroking mine
  • helenhugs
    helenhugs Posts: 1,149 Forumite
    I do love the baskets & really want a gorgeous wicker one for the picnics we regularly go on. unfortunately all I have are the storage baskets without a handle. I would love to pop to the shops with a gorgeou basket though rather than my canvas bags :) 1 day I will have the money to buy 1, until then I just have to keep dreaming.
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  • JenniO
    JenniO Posts: 547 Forumite
    Please add me to the basket obsessives on this thread. My local charity shop used to hold them for me as I always bought every one that came through! (I finally told the lady to stop as my house is full of baskets). I really thought I was the only one too! :o
  • InfamyInfamy
    InfamyInfamy Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    kittie wrote: »
    yes they are. I love stroking mine
    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!
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  • Psykicpup
    Psykicpup Posts: 1,398 Forumite
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    NualaBuala wrote: »
    I love baskets too - I've always wanted a "proper" shopping basket but I don't know where to get one. And cloth bags are more practical for stuffing in pockets or my handbag I suppose. But baskets look so nice!

    I got mine from Lakeland - it was around £5 if I remember right
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  • Butterfly_Brain
    Butterfly_Brain Posts: 8,862 Forumite
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    I remember taking my cookery bits to school in a basket too! Now we are showing our age girls.
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  • larmy16
    larmy16 Posts: 4,324 Forumite
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    Oooh another one here. I am basket mad! they are all over my house, storage, laundry baskets but I have to confess to further wicker tendencies. I also love wicker wall storage, chests of drawers, bamboo mirrors. I have so much of, it mainly collected in charity shops and boot fairs, that I have to cull some of it occasionally.

    I need a bigger house! :)
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  • beautiful_ravens
    beautiful_ravens Posts: 769 Forumite
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    Ah, I thought I was the only one, too.

    I will never forget the time I saw a stair basket in a charity shop for £2, and didnt get it on the day...Went back the next day to get it (after a sleepless night wanting that basket), and it was still there, but was reserved for someone else. That haunts me to this day. :o

    I just bought a small version of 'the shopping basket' from a charity shop, for £2. Its so cute!! Another charity shop bargain was a strange gardening basket with a strip of elastic round it for holding tools, like this but much bigger - http://www.bountifulbasketsdurango.com/store/images/2009_0410oddsandends0027.JPG

    The other thing I really like is wooden bowls. I have quite a few, but my favourite ones which I can't afford are those made of a knot of Yew or Walnut...lovely, but I have none :(
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  • anguk
    anguk Posts: 3,412 Forumite
    I too had a basket for home economics, we all had one, in fact thinking about it I'm sure that it was compulsory and part of the school uniform for all girls to have a basket for cookery. (boys didn't do home economics back then, they did manly things like metalwork & woodwork :rolleyes:).

    My basket had a gingham waterproof cover like a big shower cap and I loved it. :o
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