5 Gallon Bucket

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Best Bucket Gifts of 2013

I like to hunt for Christmas gift ideas on Amazon’s bestsellers lists. You can be assured that items on the list are good quality for a good price, and you can get a second and third opinion by reading the reviews.

This year I searched “buckets” in the bestseller list to see if I could find anything worth mentioning. And I found an embarrassment of variety! Here are some of the best.

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Water Boiler

Count how often in a day you use hot water out of the tap. I can think of several – washing hands, taking a shower, cleaning clothes or as a shortcut to boiling water for pasta.

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Hot tap water is the ultimate modern luxury, but you can’t always count on it being there. Your hot water might vanish during a water boiler breakdown, plumbing trouble, a natural disaster, or even something as mundane as going camping.

With an efficient 5 gallon hot water system in place, you’ll never have to go without. Continue reading

SD Card Storage

When you buy nails, screws, hooks or many other types of hardware, pay attention to the case they come in. This compartmentalized organizer can be used to store all your flash memory so you’ll never lose it again!

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I emptied the above box of nails years ago, and I’ve employed the case in holding all the USB and SD flash memory I’ve accumulated since.

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