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Today I have for you a basket. Not just any basket though, this one is guaranteed to be Handmade by a single person and distributed by one of the biggest basket companies on the face of the planet. The basket at hand is called the Housekeeper. The kicker is that this basket can hit resale prices of around $420 on ebay, but if was going to use it I'd probably just put my laundry in it. If you know anything about the basket Market (which I didn't even know was a thing before I started at Goodwill) you're probably thinking of Longaberger right now. Every basket produced by Longaberger has a signature on the bottom of the person that made the basket and the logo etched into the bottom to ensure that it's the real deal.
Longaberger is (or was, until last year) the basket producer in the United states. So much so that their factory was constructed in the shape of a basket. When they went out of business in 2018, the resale prices of these baskets went up if anything, and as of their closing the most expensive Longaberger item sold was a wall display with 14 small baskets inside of it. That sold for $2200. If we guess the price of the display is about $200, that's roughly $130 per basket.
While this one is likely much larger than the individual baskets that sold in that particular set, it's still only one basket. If you're reading this and want that basket, it's only $124.99 here at Goodwill. It sort of blows my mind that people would be willing to spend even that amount of money on a basket (even if it is collectable), but to each their own I suppose.
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