Time to break out all the baskets
By Staff
Suzanne Langcuster
Home-makers and housekeepers all seem to love baskets.
Many of us have collected them through the years, especially if you have children. Easter baskets of all kinds are left long after Easter as the years go by.
I often run into basket sales and am tempted to buy them while the cost is low, even though we do not really have a use for them.
Friends give baskets to us and we attend basket parties. Suddenly we realize we have all these baskets and no use for them.
What do we do with them?
First, Easter baskets are wonderful to use for gift baskets. Add a little homemade jelly, sweet candles, a can of nuts, mixed candy and some cookies. Use some colorful tissue paper and ribbon and you have a great gift.
Round baskets can be used to hold fruits or nuts (with the shells).
Recently, I found a new use for round baskets. When you transport a casserole the basket helps to keep it steady and from spilling easily.
They also make a casserole or vegetable dish look more attractive when serving.
Long flat baskets are wonderful for transporting cakes and pies. If your rectangle basket is long enough you could transport two pies at once.
We also use these baskets to store paper items we don't want folded, like your favorite large photos or keepsake letters. These size baskets slide easily under a bed and, if deep enough, they hold as much as some dresser drawers.
Clothesbaskets are my favorite. They not only hold clean or dirty laundry, but the can transport all kind of items when you travel.
On a good day for a picnic, just quickly put your food items in a clothes basket, throw in some paper plates, paper cups, and your food items, ice down some cold drinks and your off.
Baskets are so handy for those of us who enjoy knitting. It is always right by your chair and handy when you have a minute to knit.
While cleaning out recently, I found a small round basket.
It was too small for most jobs and not large enough for others so I put it on the counter near some napkins. When we got ready to eat our meal I reached for the napkins and spotted the basket.
"Those napkins will fit in this basket," I thought to myself.
So we began to stack the napkins in the basket and put them on the table. They have been there ever since.
