Who's guilty of this thievery?????

I think this must be a guy thing. I must buy a new bucket for the house every month (for the inside). I've been searching for the past two days for my last purchase. Finally, I go unlock the shop and hunt. There it is - sitting on the floor with parts in it. Just how many buckets/pails can a guy go through? My experience is about 12 a year and that's only cause that's all I'll buy.

Oh yeah, this isn't counting the 5 gallon buckets left over from the KW oil changes. Those all manage to get used up also.

Guess I need to search for a hot pink one and hope that does the trick.

 

Go right ahead... It'll be black after the first load of parts cleaner anyhow.... lol

 

Why is it I can have a ton of buckets but yet when I grab one to wash the truck,yup its the one with a crack in it!

 

Not so much buckets for me, but at work, funnels are like gold. Apparently 99 cent plastic funnels are harder to come by than the holy grail...which now that I think about it could work......

 

Hey Carlene I hear ya and I feel your pain. I once had a heart attack because I could not find a Waterford crystal candy dish my great grandmother once owned and it had been passed down to me. I cried for days. My husband and the kids all said they had absolutely no idea where it was. One day while in his garage I was looking for a box of nails and saw a glimmer coming from the workbench. It was my great grandmothers dish covered in grease, oil, sawdust and metal shavings and had 3 inches of a still unidentified liquid and about a hundred little screws. I came unglued. Turns out he told one of the kids to go ask mom for something to put these screws in and make sure it had a lid. I told them to get a plastic container. The dish was in the china cabinet and the kidlet didnt want to go all the way to the Rubbermaid cupboard and so she grabbed that. She got to the garage and put the screws in it for him and over time it got gross and yucky and he figured it was a yard sale find that I had given him to use. So he used it to clean his screws, nuts and bolts.
I played it smart and went to Wally World and bought him two sets of assorted Rubbermaid containers and have a sign on my china cabinet doors that reads "dont even think about it"

 

You want buckets? You can HAVE them....I'm a painter by trade. I've thrown out more 5-gal buckets than most people see in a lifetime.

Jason

 

Yeah, I use them for everything. Keep my log chains and ropes in them. Cut them down for parts trays and oil change pans, put holes in the bottom and use them for drag anchors when snagging spoonbills.

The other day i had a brilliant idea - I used one to carry water (it held about 5 gal).

My brother-in-law paints, and keeps a washed out supply in his shed. I go down there about once a year, and get a dozen or so to replace the ones that have cracked or "walked away." The Home Depot sells them for 4 or 5 dollars a pop!

 

Where do you live? I'll be there with my truck.

MR

 

Wife always takes the new one. When I wanna wash the truck, I can't find a decent bucket, so I go buy one. I get home go look for my stuff, come back and bucket is gone , I'm like wth? So I end up cleaning the old one, and using that.

About three days later I find the new bucket with a mop in it . Seems like she's a blood hound for finding new buckets, but ask her where dinner is, and all hell breaks loose.

 

Yep, some things you gotta just let go - unless you want your dinner in a bucket.

 

Funny bucket story: My dad drained some kind of fluid (can't remember what it was now) into a 5 gal. bucket. Come winter, he's loading up ice fishing gear, grabs this bucket (with lid) and figures it's loaded with gear (jigs, weights, etc.) Comments on how heavy it is. Once the bucket has sat inside the shanty for a hour or so, the liquid inside has melted. Now he stands up and accidentally knocks said bucket on its side. Normally, not a problem, but 4+ gallons of liquid forces the lid open, and this stuff went everywhere, including into the holes. Says dad: "Hope this @#$% ain't too toxic. Lets move to another hole."

 

 

I have lotsa buckets. I carry corn in them to feed my cattle with. I can't remember buying any of them though. They are mostly leftovers from tractor oil changes.

You know you might be a farmer if you think that someone who willingly throws out a good five gallon bucket has some "issues".

 

I have 5 gallon bickets spread thoughout. chains and shackles, nails, bolts, screws, wire, hammers, tools, lotsa oil, dog food, milo & corn for the squirrels, and even a few of them just holding air.
I love 5 gallon buckets. I even get laughs from the oil change place once or twice a year when I show up with buckets full of oil from farm implements.