Basket obsession. A confession.

witchwoopiggy

i love baskets and have a log basket that i use for my wet washing to take to the line then to keep my ironing in would not be without it. Got it when it was thrown out of someones house I knocked and asked if i could have it i think they thought i was nuts lol but they let me have it.

thistledome

What an interesting thread.

I also remember taking a wicker basket to school in the mid to late 70's for Home Ec. and snagging tights on it. Years later I cut the handle and part of the front off it and made it into a cats bed.

Does anyone know if those massive wicker laundry hampers are available anywhere? Like the one in Fawlty Towers with the dead guest in it? (obv. without the guest).

edit: just noticed the jack straw link above, they seem to have some large ones, thanks. Later edit: some of them are really gorgeous!! cheap too.

gabyjane

I LOVE baskets too!! i have them everywhere..in the downstairs loo with brushes etc in, in the bathroom, one for me and one for dh with our smelly bits in, in the kitchen cupboards with allsorts in, on top of the fridge with crisps in, in the garage with items in, in the shed with gardening tools in, in dd's room with loads of bits in each..in our room with one for nail bits, one for hair bits and one for skin things! on the bookcase with dvd's in, on the floor with the kids toys and books in....urm yeah kind of a basket case too lol!! Dh sighs when i look at one and dd just drags me off saying no mummy no more!..maybe i should buy online so they never know and then add them inconspicuously!!

Aril

Hello
I've got a basket with loo rolls in, a basket on the stairs with all the hats and gloves in , a basket with all my unfinished craft projects in which is just out of sight so that I can conveniently forget they're there and a basket with all my sewing threads in.Up until recently I also had a huge wicker picnic basket which had all my ironing in but that's been replaced by a monks bench [ironing can hide in the lift up seat] that a friend gave me but said basket now resides with my Mum!
Aril

Katharine

I actually met someone last year who had a phobia of wicker, he was eyeing my lampshades suspiciously.:rotfl: As if they were going to drop from the celing and consume his head!:eek:

InfamyInfamy

Katharine wrote: »

I actually met someone last year who had a phobia of wicker, he was eyeing my lampshades suspiciously.:rotfl: As if they were going to drop from the celing and consume his head!:eek:

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He better not come round any of our houses then cos it could finish him off....and he would not want the wicker coffin either!!
I went to college with a girl who had a phobia of big buttons! You can guess what we gave her for Yule can't you!!!
:T

Soapy955

Guess who just won a wicker picnic basket on Freecycle!!

InfamyInfamy

Soapy955 wrote: »

Guess who just won a wicker picnic basket on Freecycle!!

Well done! So people do give them away!!
:j

Soapy955

InfamyInfamy wrote: »

Well done! So people do give them away!!
:j

Yes, I have to pick it up in the morning and she lives in my road! I don't know the condition or size of the basket, I just saw the word basket and thought "Gotta have it!"

[Deleted User]

Gosh I had forgotten all about the wondeful Gondola's of the 1960s I had one of those for ages until my children came along then they weren't very practical.I remember my Mums string bag that she got her veggies in, which rolled up and went into her handbag.Then when I left school we all had bucket bags which were exactly that to look at ,a bucket with a handle. Funny how things go out of fashion isn't it