diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
index a179d16ff..154237d9c 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ import scrapy
 from scrapy.linkextractors import LinkExtractor
 from scrapy.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
 
-from $project_name.items import ${ProjectName}Item
-
 
 class $classname(CrawlSpider):
     name = '$name'
@@ -16,7 +14,7 @@ class $classname(CrawlSpider):
     )
 
     def parse_item(self, response):
-        i = ${ProjectName}Item()
+        i = {}
         #i['domain_id'] = response.xpath('//input[@id="sid"]/@value').extract()
         #i['name'] = response.xpath('//div[@id="name"]').extract()
         #i['description'] = response.xpath('//div[@id="description"]').extract()
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl
index 69c606538..0544e0ae7 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from scrapy.spiders import CSVFeedSpider
 
-from $project_name.items import ${ProjectName}Item
-
 
 class $classname(CSVFeedSpider):
     name = '$name'
@@ -16,7 +14,7 @@ class $classname(CSVFeedSpider):
     #    return response
 
     def parse_row(self, response, row):
-        i = ${ProjectName}Item()
+        i = {}
         #i['url'] = row['url']
         #i['name'] = row['name']
         #i['description'] = row['description']
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl
index 9c0910d23..d8ff61f6e 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from scrapy.spiders import XMLFeedSpider
 
-from $project_name.items import ${ProjectName}Item
-
 
 class $classname(XMLFeedSpider):
     name = '$name'
@@ -12,7 +10,7 @@ class $classname(XMLFeedSpider):
     itertag = 'item' # change it accordingly
 
     def parse_node(self, response, selector):
-        i = ${ProjectName}Item()
+        i = {}
         #i['url'] = selector.select('url').extract()
         #i['name'] = selector.select('name').extract()
         #i['description'] = selector.select('description').extract()