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It looks a lot like a trash can. A really expensive trash can.

A really, REALLY expensive trash can.

Seeing as how we're in a recession, can AT maybe try to post more beneficial topics and items? More DIY stuff, more sales, more anything-thats-not-a-$630-hamper?

Thank you kindly!

That's $629 and it doesn't even wash the clothes. I can't imagine "falling in love" with it. It's not even covered with any diamonds! Talk about being taken to the cleaners!!!! ::groan::

Are you KIDDING me??

Heh. I just managed to get a little SimpleHuman trash can for my kitchen a few weeks ago. This hamper is too aspirational for me!

That said, tbh, most hampers on the market are purely awful -- either they're large plastic trash bins with perforations, or they're cotton sacks with flaps held by wooden stands (actually my favorite variety right now, but not so nice to have out in the open -- putting anything in them makes them misshapen), or they're really flimsy expensive baskets.

It might be nice to see the more affordable knockoffs of this one, assuming they fit the aesthetic of the purchaser.

well, if you have that kind of money to THROW AWAY for a laundry basket... none of those functions wld really apply to you as you will most likely have a personal man servant who does your laundry for you every day... so you don't really benefit from the wheels (carry wha?), the split mesh (he sorts it out), ventilation (u can beat up your servant if he doesn't launder daily)...

and if you're not that rich and bought that basket - you really need some proper lessons on where to spend your money.

I wonder if Bernie Madoff has one of these?

I have something like this - it's called a washing machine.

this is almost offensive. honestly.

I have an old built in hamper in my apt -- used to be quite standard here in NYC. For $400 less, you can still get something like it:

http://www.nextag.com/wall-mount-hamper/shop-html

of for $625 less -- try IKEA:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/search/?query=laundry

okay, i try to forgot the price. i really try.
got it. now: it's still a laundry hamper. nothing else. i like beautiful things around me too, but - you don't have to design every little detail of your life. it just makes you ugly (inside).

If someone could help me find an attractive laundry basket for under $100 I would be appreciative. But an ugly one for over $600... no thanks.

No doubt this hamper makes quite an impression but it is NOT worth $629. Ever. No matter how much you make. As someone pointed out, the washer you put those dirty clothes in might have cost you less than the hamper. At least a washer saves you the time and the labor of physically washing your clothes. It comes with a quantifiable benefit.

This is just a glorified, self indulgent box.

Why would I spend that much on this?

My husband can't even manage to get his clothes in the hamper when the top is open, like he would ever manage to put his clothes inside this hamper with that little hole on top.

That looks like the sort of industrial trash can you'd see in a nice office building. It does not say "bedroom" or "bathroom" or "take me home and live with me". Honestly, even for free, I wouldn't want it in my house.

However, in the interest of full disclosure, I should say that I have never yet found a laundry hamper that makes me happy, at any price point.

Why?

I thought that this is a trash can. I read laundry but my mind registered the pictures and kept thinking"trash can".Till I read the description that "lets air circulate ... laundry". Seriously, what a waste.

WOW. For making that the price, they should be stuffed into one and pushed down a hill. Into LAVA. That's just crazy. It should make every piece of clothing stuffed into it new again, down to the price tags, for that price.

I gave this some thought. I suppose someone out there is just frustrated by all the wicker and plastic wicker and perforated plastic and unbleached cotton that there is for hampers. Something different, this is. Well, let's disregard the price. It is different. Design for life items, such as hampers, should be different. These are things that show*, and I think this item represents a huge gap in what's generally available. I don't happen to love this, but this isn't such a horrible item, except for the expense.

*except for that time my mom said she wanted a laundry chute, and my dad cut a rectangle in the wall, put a little door on the hole with molding to frame it, and I think lined it with aluminum flashing. Ever since then, towels (mostly) have blocked the 4 inch depth between the bathroom and the hall closet until someone in the basement jabs a broom handle up in around it, where it falls into a basket.

I have the aforementioned beige cotton hamper - it's a sorter really, stays folded up in the closet until I have to sort a lot of laundry (also with my baskets). I do not love it, but it's functional and puts away easily. I also have a mesh bag "hamper" that hangs on some sort of oval frame on a hook on the inside of the bathroom door, which I swear was by Martha Stewart at KMart (based on the "ever-open" design I guess?) - one of the best $10 (or so) I ever spent, even if the locking plastic clip on the drawstring didn't last that long, and I don't double-duty the bag portion to the laundry room. It is totally convenient, and unobtrusive in my life. I've had it since before she went to jail, can't find it online anywhere! Cherish good things, you may never find another one!

So yeah, this hamper might appeal to someone, and people who know something about these things should start making new-styled hampers at decent prices for people who just hate all the common styles you can't get away from. I mean this for all the hampers yet to be created that don't conform to the usual, not just expensive ones that look like a trash bin.

If you want some home items that are much less expensive but with some style, check out the Umbra website.

Also, I like IKEA as well, but it is not the only option for cheap good design, guys...