I'm using two of these baskets for laundry. They're really pretty, and they're holding up nicely, but they're not sturdy at all. It's been a couple months since I got them, and I cannot get them to stand up; they have kept the folded shape that they were in when they were boxed (even though I've tried MANY times to fold them the other way, to wet and dry them in a circular shape, etc.) They just fall over folded in on themselves, and I have to wrestle them to get laundry in. I long to just throw a t-shirt across the room into an open basket!