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eBay. You can Buy It Now -- the unpainted version -- for just $4.99. Gotta love the eBay.

I was going to add that excellent Buy It Now link above, except their shipping and handling is almost $13 to my zip code.

These things are quite a joke down here in the south. They are readily available at roadside stands and country fairs. Wouldn't be caught dead with one in my house.

I remember my grandma having one of these and my mother considering buying one at a craft fair back in the earlier nineties. I don't think this will ever find it's way into my home.

Is it cute in person? Because it looks a little Lillian Vernon-ish in the eBay auction photo.

This is a scrollsaw project. I work for a company that made designs for baskets like this. The apple design is super popular. They are all made out of one piece of wood too which is kinda interesting...

Having not grown up with one, I love it! It's so happy. Reminds me of NY apple logo.

I agree with a few of you......craft show/fair special. In my eyes....'crap' show/fair.

I found quite a few on Etsy.com... kinda pricey too...
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5627845&section_id=5324142

are you kidding? it's one of the most ridiculously chic or chicly ridiculous things i've ever seen

Yuck! And, yes, it has two purposes, but surely one already has a thousand trivets and bowls in one's house, so adding another "doubly useful" one is just adding more clutter.

we had one of these when i was a kid, very hideous in my opinion and make me think garage sale right off the bat. i was happy to see it go.

also the thoughts of craft fairs and people with 6 teeth and a cig hanging out of their mouth selling them comes to mind.

ick. i've NEVER liked these. tacky and ugly.. never been fan.. growing up in the midwest i've seen them everywhere and every version. would never have one in my house.. nope. never.

I have one. Shaped like a two-headed goose. A hand-me-down (was told it was made by Grandpa - never doubted this, but until today I'd never seen others, either.) Didn't realize it was a trivet... this is potentially more useful? Right now it never sees the light of day. (Too tipsy as a basket.)

Like some of the other people here, I too encountered scores of these at craft fairs in the US in the 1990s. Perhaps AT ought to visit craft fairs once in a while?

I thought they were horrible and tacky as well, but then my friend's mom got me 2 of them for my birthday. I spray painted one metallic gold and made it a fruit bowl, the other I painted 8 different colors and it holds my silk scarves in my closet. Once you throw color on it, its entirely transformed.

Found at Coombs here on Vancouver Island!!

Oh, this takes me back to a good Southern craft fair -- next tater/onion boxes! All in all -- practical and kind of ingenious I suppose though.

Pearl River.

I suppose it's possible to dislike these without vomiting, right? I think that reaction must be regional. I just thought they were a little farty/country/folksy* for my taste (you know, like a braided rug, etc.), having seen them before but apparently not to the degree of exposure that causes people to cackle with real disgust. That said, I have one, but it's part of a visual joke collection I'm building (the joke isn't the item and vice versa, but it's a "prop" I guess).

*Some items I'd put with it in this category are wildly popular, however. They might call it kitsch or quaint or whatever, but people eat it up, and I can't really tell the difference.