5 gallon buckets at home

People tend to overlook how useful 5 gallon buckets are. Whether you’re at home, in the office, in the garden, on a campsite, chances are you’ll need a 5-gallon or larger bucket. Below are some examples of its uses around the home.

In the kitchen

There will always be something to keep in the kitchen. Most of the time, food and drink. But small kitchen utensils also need a container when you don’t have one. A few 5 gallon buckets in the kitchen can go a long way. However, when storing food and beverages, always make sure that 5 gallon buckets are made of food-grade plastic materials. It is always important to be safe than sorry. When you have the 5 gallon food grade buckets, you can start storing the sugar, grains, cereal and/or milk.

in the game room

Sometimes it is very frustrating when children start playing but never start to clean up their toys afterwards. Rearranging them one by one in a nice order on the shelves can also be very exhausting. Especially if they start picking on them in the next 5 minutes. Why not have some colorful 5 gallon buckets in there and teach the kids some organization? If the job is simple enough to do, surely they aren’t going to pout doing it, right? So, the car toys in the blue cube, the dolls in pink, the soft toys in yellow, etc.

In the garage

So many tools, so little space. 5 gallon buckets can be helpful in this case. What you need to do is assemble your tools based on features and sizes. Cleaning tools should be gathered with other equipment or supplies for the same function, placed in a 5-gallon bucket, then labeled on the outside to indicate what is stored inside. Do the same for garden tools or supplies and carpentry tools. A nice organized garage is what you will get.

in the study room

Research shows that Americans waste approximately 4 million tons of office paper each year. So here’s a little tip: recycle your paper and use it until you can’t use it. When you receive a letter or print a document you no longer use, store it in a 5-gallon bucket for future use. You may need to use waste paper one of these days and you can save the environment by using both sides of the waste paper stored there.

around the house

So it’s a cleaning day. Why don’t you grab your 5 gallon bucket and put your cleaning tools inside, going from room to room as you clean every part of the house? When you find garbage on your way, pick it up and throw it into the bin, then continue cleaning. When things are done hands-on, the cleanup job doesn’t look or feel as bad.

Those are just some of the things one can do with 5 gallon buckets at home. There are many other things when plastic buckets come very versatile in daily life wherever we are. Upcoming articles will discuss how 5 gallon buckets can be useful in the garden, at a campsite, and even in the office.