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Everything You Wanted to know About Buckets
Buckets are great! They can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and be used for all sorts of different tasks. You can use big buckets to hold a lot of liquid or hold your kids’ toys. You can haul stuff around and keep it all together in one, easily organized place. A bucket can keep things where they belong and get them to where they need to go without the mess of moving them all individually. Small buckets can be used to keep yourself organized, for cutting down on messes, for use with smaller people and smaller hands, or people who are not strong enough to lift a big bucket when it is full. In fact, sometimes smaller buckets really are they way to go, if only because the stuff that is in them is heavy and hard to lift or move.
Buckets come in many eye catching colors and can be made out of a nearly infinite list of possible materials. You can find them on the market made out of anything from bamboo to steel to plastic, and everything in between.
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Some people collect buckets, especially antique collectors who go around looking for old buckets to show off or re-sell out of their own collections. An antique or historical bucket can make a great addition to any décor scheme and can be used inside or out of the house to great effect. Indoor buckets can be used to hold things and appear functional, or simply as an added decoration accessory in the room. Outdoor buckets can, depending on what kind material they are made out of, be allowed to decay and rust, making for an interesting addition to a landscaping plan or artistic statement, or they can also be coated with sealant and protected. Older buckets that have been protected in this way can easily be turned into such useful items as garden planters, rain barrels and other functional additions to your everyday outside life.
Buckets are so common that they are a part of every day speech and euphemisms. For example, people might say someone kicked the bucket to mean that that person had died. How that particular expression came to be commonly used is a matter of debate, but one might suppose that you are not supposed to kick buckets so your only good excuse would be that you had died and could not help it. Maybe the bucket in this case is a slop bucket like for feeding pigs, and if you kicked it it would cause a mess so kicking the bucket might be seen as a very bad thing. In fact, speaking of messes in buckets, before we had modern plumbing and indoor toilets, a type of bucket known as a chamber pot was used for that purpose. That might be another type of bucket you would not want to kick. Chamber pots were traditionally kept under the bed and emptied out every morning either by oneself or by a maid servant, depending on how right a person was and whether they could afford to have someone else take out the dirty chamber pot for them.
Buckets have historically also played a critical part in fire fighting, with the advent of such cornerstones of society as the “bucket brigade” which were firemen or just ordinary townspeople who would line up between a fire and a source of water and pass a line of buckets along from one person the next and to the next and so on, with the person by the water filling the bucket and passing it forward and the person closest to the fire dumping the bucket full of water on the fire to try to put it out.
Buckets were probably the next great invention to be created since the invention of the wheel. They truly are one of the most useful creations that all human kind has ever produced. There is archeological record of nearly every culture around the world using some type of bucket for as long as anyone can find evidence dating back to.
Whether you are a kid on a beach building a sand castle with plastic shovels and buckets or a modern day gardener or an ancient Egyptian, buckets are very important in your every day life.
