About ten years ago I was looking for an attractive way to store my son's Nintendo, since our little TV stand at the time barely held to TV and the brand new VCR. I was at Michaels and they had a sale on baskets. I chose a large handled basket and kept it by the TV. It worked perfectly - the console, games, controllers, etc where attractively out of direct view. Eventually, he got the newer nintendo and we got a larger stand, so now all the electronics and equipment fit on the stand. So now the basket holds the newspapers until they are ready to be bundled and taken to the Humane Society. However, through the years, the cats have found the basket to be quite attractive, too - whether or not the nintendo was in it, whether or not it's got newspapers in it! In fact, when my current kitties were kittens, they loved to jump up to the handle and hang! If I ever get a scanner, I will eventually post a picture of this!

Also, a few days ago, my son left his laundry basket in the living room. This is one of those cheap, little round plastic ones that he uses to take his laudry in and out of the laundry room. The reason it is still in the living room is becuase it has always had a cat in it since he put it there - even Big who is WAY TOO BIG! At the same time, my HMO sent me a box of asthma and diabetes supplies, and before I could even get it emptied there was a cat in it! So it's still in the living room, too, but it's getting torn up pretty quickly because once again Big keeps getting in it and he's WAY TOO BIG!