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I use rubbermaid totes as laundry baskets, I use them to store toys, file papers, for laundry, I keep one at the top of the stairs for dirty laundry and one at the bottom for clean to be carried upstairs. I also use them to store books in and to organize items for garage sales. I find that they are cheapest at rite aid or cvs, sometimes on sale for 3-4.00 versus the 8.00 kmart charges. Love my rubbermaid totes!

I use my laundry baskets just like Amy does. We have limited space, so although I'd love to keep a pretty basket permanently at the top and bottom of the staircase, we just don't have the room for it. So I just use a laundry basket when cleaning, carry it around downstairs, and then head upstairs with it, putting away things and putting in things that belong downstairs. Then I head back down and once everything is put away, I leave it on top of the washer (which is in the kitchen in a little nook.).

This is really BAD .... but  a laundry basket would not be big enough to hold all of the garbage and junk collected in my suv and my boys are just 8 months old.  Perhaps twin laundry baskets! HEHE!!!!!!!!!

Much like you ladies I use mine for:
Dirty clothes
Clean clothes
Picking up around the house
Gathering and storing toys in the den after the kids are in bed
There is one in the car for toys and I swap it out every few days with the one in the den

Then DD uses it for a doll bed, cat or dog house, stable or what ever else she imagines it is that day.  Normally that involves her dumping the toys out of it and I need to go get another one to gather the new mess in.
I have several around the house and in the garage for storage.

That is when I break out those Rubbermaid totes That happens a lot over here-

I just uncovered my laundry baskets...they were still in my room, full of last fall's "outgrowns".  I was miserably preggers and too lazy to put the stuff away.  But now that they're back, they are in use in the bedrooms for, well, laundry.  The boys and DH are actually using them for dirty clothes (wonder of wonders!).  I take them every day or so to the laundry room and sort into the hamper there, and then fill them up with a load or two of clean, then take clean clothes to the bedrooms and put them away and then they're ready for the next smelly socks to hit them!