Free buckets!

[Choogie]

In case anyone’s interested, the bakery at our Walmart gets their cake icing in plastic buckets. Approx. 2 1/2 gallons to 5 gallon sizes. They save them if you ask them to and give them away. I use them for lots of things besides aquarium use. Just have to clean them out well depending on what you use them for. 

[Guppysnail]

Thanks. That’s a great find!  

[Widgets]

I remember getting the 5g pickle buckets from a local fast food place. They would otherwise throw them away, so they were glad to give them away to be used for something. After a while they started charging a small fee because so many people were asking for them and they could not keep up with the demand. Hope this lasts.

Icing buckets will sure smell better than pickle buckets.

[AndreaW]

On 3/22/2022 at 10:54 AM, Widgets said:

I remember getting the 5g pickle buckets from a local fast food place. They would otherwise throw them away, so they were glad to give them away to be used for something. After a while they started charging a small fee because so many people were asking for them and they could not keep up with the demand. Hope this lasts.

Icing buckets will sure smell better than pickle buckets.

My sister used a pickle bucket as a storage bucket/seat for girls camp one year. Her pajamas that were stored in the bucket smelled like pickles no matter how many times she washed them! 

[Choogie]

On 3/22/2022 at 12:29 PM, AndreaW said:

My sister used a pickle bucket as a storage bucket/seat for girls camp one year. Her pajamas that were stored in the bucket smelled like pickles no matter how many times she washed them! 

Just be glad it was a pickle bucket and not a Limberger (sp) cheese bucket! 😃