Traditional wicker shopping basket

stilernin

kittie wrote:

remember when gondola baskets were in fashion?

Blimey, I'd forgotten all about these!! A double sign of age I suppose, knowing what they were and then forgetting about them!!!:rotfl: :rotfl:

I recently moved into a house and found a wicker basket that fits on the front of a bicycle. It's in perfect condition so all I need to do now is sort out my bike that lived on the garage wall for the last 6 years!!

I wonder if it is worth it though as my local veg shop is only 50yds away. Couldn't be cheaper either........ carrots 15p lb, caulis 40p, huge lemons 5 for 60p... people drive miles to shop there.

The basket is being used in the lounge for newpapers at the mo' so it's not being wasted.

Lillibet_2

Oh I want one, but it'd be totally inpratical with a push chair:rolleyes: My Mum has still got her Gondala basket, although I never knew that's what they were called! I can remember her using it when i was at primary school, although it now hangs in the garden shed holding out of season bulbs;)

thriftlady_2

Blairweech wrote:

I am undecided whether to get a Wally Trolley or a basket. I guess a trolley would hold a lot more? (off to read the chic shopper thread)

You can get wicker wally trolleys. I want one of these - expensive though. Look on Ebay for old wicker shopping trolleys.

http://www.hembrow.eu/wheelie.html

I've got a lovely big wicker basket on my lovely bike too, great for cycling to the library.

RacyRed

grannybroon wrote:

I had one for years and totally loved it - I felt I was a real shopper!

Ended up using it as an outdoor planter for pansies in winter and busy lizzies in summer. It eventually rotted with the elements but worth it!

GB

I like that idea a lot! :T

Thats wicker baskets added to my "want" list when I'm browsing the markets and charity shops! The ebay ones look great, until you add the postage and packing

RacyRed

kittie wrote:

That`s it Lizzy.

Never snagged my tights, we wore socks

Ooops! I'm giving my age away!

We had a 15 mile trip on 2 busses to get to school, As it involved a lot of standing shivering at bus stops in the middle of nowhere we were given a dispensation to wear thick tights. I'd have preferred trousers but that was an absolute no-no!

The basket was great then though, I used to shove my gloved hands in under the cover to keep them warmer. Sort of a wicker muff!

I've not seen one of the hinged lid ones for ages! The ones where the hinge was on the outside edge so they opened out from the basket instead of in the middle opening up against the handle, were my favorites.

Lara

calleyw wrote:

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

I saw this in Lakeland, Bluewater yesterday. It is really lovely but OH said "What do you need that for - you have enough bags!". Needless to say I didn't buy it .................then..............;)

Nelski

awww i still have my wicker basket and I love it. :A

It started its time like most of you to take my bits to cookery classes - I always wondered if it really was the BEST way to do this after numerous times when my casserole or soup spilled out and poured through the basket on to my shoes:D then over the years has had loads of uses. For a while it was on my fireplace packed full of logs (thats my fake gas fire so all a bit of a con:rotfl:) then it sat in the attic for a while when it was uncool to have it out then I had a conservatory built and it went great with the wicker furniture and had a big plant in for a while:j And now? well at the moment it sits by the conservatory door and holds some shoes I can throw on for the garden, some gardening gloves and a few random tools like pruners:o

What will it be next year who knows eh? everyone should own a wicker basket

tired_mum

Hi all i have a wicker basket thought it looked cute but it has now been under the stairs for over a year bought at a craft fair it isnt lined but hardly used probably very dusty if anyone is going to the london meet and wants it they can have it just pm me

Poppy9

Oh I must show this to my DD. She's started cookery lessons in school and takes a large tupperware tub for carrying her goods back and fore but when she made a cheese and potato pie the other week I said she needed my old cookery basket to carry it home from school without spilling it. We also had the gondola type one too as I have a sister 11 years old than me. I never used it as it was so old fashioned:rolleyes:

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I noticed a spread about 60s dresses in one of the sunday mags. A basket, like the gondola would really set the scene. The dresses were often shift-type and the hair flicked out.Absolutely os!! We made the dresses and would stand ages back-combing the hair and we wore socks and the same pair of shoes for every occasion!!! I was a young teenager after all