<p>my mom is making me get baskets like this: [Bed</a> Bath & Beyond Product](<a href=“Bed Bath & Beyond | The Best Deals Online: Furniture, Bedding, Rugs, Kitchen Essentials & Moree”>Bed Bath & Beyond | The Best Deals Online: Furniture, Bedding, Rugs, Kitchen Essentials & Moree)</p>
<p>my question is what are they for? i don’t use anything like these in my room now. college students, how do you use these? i feel like an idiot for asking this…</p>
<p>I actually saw these at Bed Bath and Beyond. They looked interesting, but I couldn’t think of a legitimate use I would have for them. I mean, they don’t seem altogether practical :)</p>
<p>I can’t tell you what college students use them for (seeing as how I’ll be one myself shortly!), but I just didn’t see the point of them when I was shopping around.</p>
<p>girls like put all kinds of crap in them</p>
<p>Made of heavyweight 600 Denier polyester, totes are great for so many uses. Perfect for the home, office and especially the dorm room. Plus, they have eyelet handles that make them easy to grab.</p>
<p>The description is self-explanatory. You can use it for anything. You can put items in it to keep your dorm room more organized.</p>
<p>You can throw random stuff in it and stuff the tote under your bed. I do that, except I use cardboard boxes.</p>
<p>Just to keep your room a little more organized. I’ve used plastic boxes to store my out-of-season clothes, extra notebooks, DVDs, bathroom stuff, medicine, etc that I don’t really want to keep around in my drawers and desk. Besides, they’ll come in handy when you pack up your clothes! They look better than some suitcases laying around.</p>
<p>Yeah, they’re nice dorm organizers that can serve as decoration if you have a color scheme and all that. This probably appeals to girls more, though.</p>
<p>But to be honest, under the bed storage boxes are probably more practical, since they actually have lids, so you won’t have as much dust and goodness knows what collecting on your stuff down there. And if you’re moving in the rain, your stuff can get wet in those organizers.</p>
<p>If you’re going to get something like that, I recommend getting something that goes straight down rather than slants in towards the bottom. Otherwise when you like them up, you have wasted space between baskets at the bottom. Rubbermaid makes something similar that’s collapsible (in case you don’t use one, it’s easy to store until you need it) and have straight sides.</p>
<p>thanks everyone. i have a better idea now.</p>
<p>I have used those for storing toiletries, such as toothpaste and deodorant.</p>
<p>To keep your shelves more organized and allow you to store more in the same shelf space.</p>
<p>It’s a hat.</p>
<p>^ lol (10 char)</p>
<p>if only that were the first post…</p>