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CrunchyMom
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Just prefacing this by saying this could be a really weird question that no one can answer because, well, maybe I'm just weird.
I like to make baskets in my home function. I also like using them to take things places. I'll use a picnic basket instead of a grocery sack, for instance.
Now, I have a hard time just leaving that picnic basket empty to just be until I am using it for carrying a meal. It seems such a waste of space.
And yet, when the time comes to use the picnic basket, it has a bunch of junk in it that, once I remove it, doesn't have a home 
This also happens randomly when I want to keep things together for a particular project. We just have so little space, I can rarely keep things out, and most work is done on the same table we eat--so, scooping up whatever (all the seed catalogs and gardening books OR all the stuff we are using to make valentines--these are recent things that come to mind).
So, do you just have empty baskets in out of the way decorative places waiting to be pulled down for such occasions? I just don't have that many baskets or that many places to put them! I hate the idea of keeping a pretty basket in the basement and empty to boot 
Is this just one of those things that I'll have to either get used to or over or buy more baskets, etc...
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Can you double up your baskets? have one sitting inside another and then have things in the second basket.. then you have one basket to put the things into when using the other.
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Hmmmm...lemme think...
Well, my book baskets are never empty - they just rotate books seasonally. 
My errand basket does double duty as you are describing, often containing a project we're working on. If it isn't holding a project or collection, it lives on my cranberry red bake center in my kitchen where it is convenient to grab for the day's errands - empty and waiting.
If I am working on a seasonal-only project, like gardening, I set out a basket dedicated to that project and leave it assembled. I have been known to entirely rearrange a shelf in order to accommodate a new project basket.
I have a friend who keeps her lovely baskets up above her cupboards in her kitchen. She grabs one if she needs it, and they're out of the way but sort of on display up there.
My mom hangs her baskets on the wall in her farmhouse kitchen. It looks lovely. When she wants a basket, she grabs it.
My errand basket is a red-gingham lined picnic basket with handles. It could hang from an exposed beam or just from the ceiling (if needed) to be out of the way and to free up horizontal real estate.
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I do have some empty baskets. A bowl basket is in the cupboard that I pull out when the gang wants a big bowl to hold chips or such while they watch a movie or something. I have a tissue basket that is empty, because I just haven't bought tissues lately. Sometimes that does get snagged by my oldest dd who puts her markers and pens in it then I buy my box of tissues and her stuff gets dumped on the floor! I have a small picnic type basket on the top shelf of my closet holding all sorts of oddball items that I just don't know how to categorize or where to put them otherwise. I hate using such a nice basket in the closet, but I don't know where else those things can go?! We have a TON of baskets that we use on two open backed ladder shelves that hold all of our DVDs and CDs. We look very baskety over here!
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KackyK wrote:
| I have a tissue basket that is empty, because I just haven't bought tissues lately. Sometimes that does get snagged by my oldest dd who puts her markers and pens in it |
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Yes, this is it exactly! So, its not strange that I feel I am constantly creating new spaces for things?
Grrr... I think I just need so many less things.
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I have empty baskets--I hang them on hooks from the ceiling of my laundry room. They're out of the way, but empty when I need one.
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