Traditional wicker shopping basket

calleyw

I found this while browsing the latest offering from lakeland

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/product.aspx/!21062

A wicker basket for £4.99 it has a cover and is lined inside.

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I have not seen it in the flesh but I think I will get one next time I go to lakeland.

Takes me back to being at school taking my ingredients for home ec in my mothers.

Yours


Calley

recovering_spendaholic

Oh! I sooo want one! I had one at school which I used to take my cookery stuff in too!

thriftlady_2

I've got a nice wicker basket that I bought in Betws y Coed a few years ago. I love it to bits. I use it for shopping in Tesco and the farmshop, carrying baking to school (I feel like Red Riding Hood:rotfl: ) and taking the bottles to the bottle bank.

Mine cost a tenner though, so the Lakeland one looks good value

embb

calleyw wrote:

Takes me back to being at school taking my ingredients for home ec in my mothers.

Me too Awww aren't they lovely, wish I could use one, but only go and do a shop once a week and never pop out for bits anymore

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ooh we had that type 50 years ago. Used it for cookery and shopping. It is fantastic value. I got a whicker basket at a county show 30 years ago and I LOVE it. It makes a lovely decoration on top of the kitchen cupboards when I`m not using it. Expensive (relatively) then but worth every penny

remember when gondola baskets were in fashion?

RacyRed

Wow! I had one of those for school cookery lessons!

I remeber they were great for packing the ingredients and finished offerings in but I hated the way it always snagged my tights... maybe I should have been wearing a longer skirt

hilstep2000

I've still got my school one! From 1970! And I still use it!

RacyRed

kittie wrote:

remember when gondola baskets were in fashion?

OK Kittie, I give up, what's a gondola basket

Pink.

That looks like a really good price. I have a similar one in the bathroom that was originally used as a nappy basket, but now holds toiletries. The handle's beginning to fray, so I'd love a new one. Unfortunately we don't have Lakeland here.

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thriftlady_2

Lakeland do mail order Pink, or do they not cross the Irish Sea ?:)

Pink.

Thanks thriftylady........I'll have alook at that. Usually the postage on cheaper items doesn't make it worthwhile. Maybe I could find some other things to order to make it worth my while.

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