Another dilemma that leads to things not being thrown away is when they're quite nice, as with this basket, which I think once held a gift of cosmetics. It looks like something that could be, well, nice - for... um... stuff. And that's the problem, it's a non-specific container that doesn't quite fit anything one might want to put in it, so it ends up sort of wedged somewhere, and doing nothing but gathering dust. The genuine problem of the Thing That Will Probably Be Useful One Day. The problem being that that day will most likely be in the deep future, long after everything else has turned to dust. Though it's quite good at holding dust. So.