OK, if you read through these reviews and are stumped by why some people love these baskets and others absolutely hate them, here's one possibility—the quality varies widely. I ordered three. Two came in one package, one came separately. The single one was really beautiful. Nice, large, sturdy basket, nice variation in color. I want them for storage and they are large enough to fit a large, overstuffed adult's backpack with a few men's shoes thrown in. The liner was ok, pretty thin, flimsy muslin, nothing to write home about, but I wasn't using it, so no big deal. The other two baskets came and looked like they were coated in oil which dried. They are one single dark brown shiny color, not the natural varied color that many nice baskets have, and the coating of paint or polish or whatever makes them look painted. There's nothing "natural looking" about them. They might as well be ugly brown plastic. But the worst thing is they smell absolutely foul and disgusting. When I took them out of the box my son was choking from the odor. I made the decision to keep the one nice one, and ask Amazon to replace the two. So I put the two stinky ones outside in a covered vestibule while I waited for them to be picked up. I have to say the odor subsided a lot within a day or so, although I'm not sure if I'd have been able to keep them in the house, not sure if the smell had gone away enough for that. I ended up shipping them back the next day, and reordered, after spending way too much time on the phone with Amazon customer service, making if very clear that I wanted replacements more like the one nice one, not like the two smelly ones. The person I got at customer service, was very sweet but absolutely useless, and clearly didn't understand what I was saying. Thanks for the useless customer service, Amazon! And of course the replacements they sent were both two more of the foul-smelling, ugly ones. The Replacements STINK! (Being a fan of '80s indie American music, I just had to write that!) Now, I may keep them because I really don't want to deal with Amazon and because I was thinking I might want to paint them anyway, and that would hopefully seal them a bit. I have to say I would not use these with my clothes or towels—anything I'd put next to my skin. Certainly not baby toys or anything for a little kid. They are truly horrible smelling, and I wouldn't want whatever chemical is smelling so bad next to my clothes. If they could guarantee the nice baskets, it would be great, but I've gotten five of these so far, and 4 of them were truly disgusting! So be forewarned. You're most likely going to get the disgusting, horrible, ones, so you might be better off buying something else!!!!!!!
