Basket obsession. A confession.

Bronnie

Did you know basket-lovers can even get their own t shirt? LOL!

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://rlv.zcache.com/basket_case_tshirt-p235307906274694293!!!2_400.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.zazzle.com/basket_case_tshirt-235307906274694293&usg=__BaEHis3YqT4lUS3ZNJEv6ebGB1s=&h=400&w=400&sz=24&hl=en&start=87&tbnid=T8Av057LhVF6iM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbasket%2Bcase%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D72

InfamyInfamy

Bronnie wrote: »

Did you know basket-lovers can even get their own t shirt? LOL!

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://rlv.zcache.com/basket_case_tshirt-p235307906274694293!!!2_400.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.zazzle.com/basket_case_tshirt-235307906274694293&usg=__BaEHis3YqT4lUS3ZNJEv6ebGB1s=&h=400&w=400&sz=24&hl=en&start=87&tbnid=T8Av057LhVF6iM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbasket%2Bcase%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D72

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: well then people in the street would know to give us a wide berth!!

Katharine

I appear to have caught the basket fetish. It started last year when it seemed very wrong to go out collecting mushrooms in anything other than a nice basket and tracked a lovely one down in the antique shop. It is very organic looking and a sensible size, with high sides so I don't lose my mushrooms when I'm clambering all over the place, I love it! Now I have a large flatish one for collecting apples and veg, and an egg basket. When they are full I will leave the contents in for a period of appreciation of the pleaseing spectacle.

jennyjelly

I'm so glad to find others cursed with this dreadflul affliction, I mean, if you collect stamps an entire collection takes up the space of one book, but my baskets are everywhere. I buy them at boot sales usually (paid 50p for a 50s original gondola once - it lives in my beroom and holds odd socks until their partners appear!).

The only expensive one I own is a stair basket which is made of Somerset willow and was a present, everything else is old. My shoes live in a huge one with handles either end, and the loo rolls are kept in picnic baskets with leather hinged lids (£5 for the pair), I have one in each loo and they comfortably hold 6 rolls on end.

I could rant on forever about how lovely they are, I think it's just that they are SO close to nature and an eco way of life. DH despairs.

BASKET FETISHISTS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!!

Katharine

Actually I have forgotten about all my stationary baskets I have only mentioned my carrying baskets. I quite fancy learning to make baskets, anyone do this?

Now how extreme is your affliction who wants one of these? http://www.hastingwoodbasketworks.com/80400/info.php?p=13

I got some of my baskets from here when they were visiting seemed like reasonable prices to me: http://www.jackstrawscountrystore.co.uk/

Basket I would like for next summer:

jennyjelly

Katharine wrote: »

Actually I have forgotten about all my stationary baskets I have only mentioned my carrying baskets. I quite fancy learning to make baskets, anyone do this?

Now how extreme is your affliction who wants one of these? http://www.hastingwoodbasketworks.com/80400/info.php?p=13

Those are so beautiful, what a waste to actually use them as intended!

valk_scot

jennyjelly wrote: »

Those are so beautiful, what a waste to actually use them as intended!

I like them, and quite fancy having one when the time comes. (My family do tend to go in for alternative coffins, like cardboard ones, so no-one will bat an eyelid.) And yes, they are lovely. I did think I might get one in advance and keep it up in the attic as a wool storage basket or something.....:eek:

InfamyInfamy

I don't fancy a basket coffin cos I won't get to appreciate it (LOL)...a bin liner (recycled obviously) would do!!
:rotfl:

Margaret54

Hi I also love baskets but only have the one, which I bought in Lakeland online. It is really lovely and has a lovely lining inside it. It is quite big and at the moment I am keeping my wool in it. I fell in love with it in the booklet Lakeland have, and it reminded me of when I was about 15 and had just left school. I used to carry mine to work and I thought it was so nice. Thanks for sharing your stories and as I just love baskets, so might buy a few more soon.:)

taurusgb

Also forgot to mention that the cat sleeps in a double decker basket (she can sleep on top or inside it), and that I have a Fortnum & Mason lidded basket full of shoes and a pretty lined basket on the hearth full of National Geographic magazines.......

I think that's it now - I've "confessed" to them all......................no ! wait! there's the old wicker basket I found damaged on the stuff to be disposed of pile in a local a charity shop (they were amazed when I offered to buy it) looks lovely in the garden.....:rotfl: