Not only does an ottoman make sitting in an easy chair even more comfortable than it already is, but there’s some evidence to suggest that straightening out your body by using an ottoman may actually be better for your health than just sitting regularly.
We should probably start off with some of the beautiful bucket ottomans from around the web before I depress you with my own attempt. But part of living the bucket lifestyle is function before form, after all. Way before form, sometimes.
Previously we’ve shared the 5 gallon grain thresher, which separates – literally – the wheat from the chaff.
But naturally you’ll want to grind that raw wheat up into flour, right?
This is the Nutrigrain grinder, which works with the optional bagger to bag flour neatly into a 5 gallon bucket.
If you’ve ever ground your own flour you know how much of a mess it creates. One misplaced breath will cover you and your kitchen with a fine coating of white dust.
This flour bagger was created to solve that most irritating problem.
This is an attempt at a comprehensive list of plastic bucket manufacturers in the United States and Canada. All entries will be accompanied with as many important details as possible – inculding website URL, manufacturing location, and where to get them.
It’s great that these new smart phones can take such incredible video, audio and pictures. In the past it took tens of thousands of dollars in equipment to produce the video quality that today is available to anyone with pants pockets and a cellular plan.
But I’ve always found taking video frustrating because that incredible camera is trapped within an awkward little wafer that can’t be mounted on any tripod that I’m aware of.
So I’ve taken the ultra-thin design that Steve Jobs spent half his life working toward and made it huge and clunky again!
The bucket mouse trap is the most popular article on Five Gallon Ideas. Since my readers are obviously nuts about trapping, I’ll happily share a few more bucket traps with you over the next couple weeks. Can you guess what this one is?
