If like me you’ve ever wished that all that precious water didn’t just escape down the drain, you could try replacing your plumbing with a 5 gallon bucket!
This outdoor sink is made with some scrap wood and an old enamel kitchen sink and faucet.
Once the bucket is full, it’s splashed onto the garden, the lawn, into the radiator, wherever it’s needed.
By the way, 5 gallons in a lot of water. It’s exactly enough to take a thorough shower.
A bucket light makes an easy, durable camping lantern. That’s usually why they’re made. If you want to build a bucket light for camping, scroll down to the bottom of the page.
I use my bucket light for something completely different – photography. Good light for photography is highly dispersed, which means instead of tight and focused it’s wide and scattered. That’s why a cloudy day is better for taking photos than a sunny one.
So here’s my bucket light. It’s very easy to make, it just requires a bucket sized right to your lamp. In my case, my lamp fits best with the 3.5 gallon bucket pictured below.
One of the first Five Gallon Inventions I ever came up with was a river cooled 5 gallon bucket cooler.
This is the Cowichan River, a world famous river tubing destination.
Quick confession: since I live in Canada, nothing’s actually labelled as “5 gallons.” Also, the rumors you’ve heard about Canada are true – everything is in french.
I’ve gone my entire life without ever having an opinion about trash cans until now. We purchased this fancy-pants 5 gallon garbage can (don’t ask me why) and 50 5 gallon garbage bags. And this is what happened.
The bags don’t fit the can! Both are rated at exactly 21 liters so what’s going on!? Well it turns out you need to buy 8 gallon bags for this “5 gallon can.”
This isn’t the only problem we had with this 20$ can – which cost 20$ too much by the way. Since it’s wider on top than on bottom, every time we closed the door it fell over and spilled garbage all over the area underneath our sink. Thanks for that, Rubbermaid. Continue reading
Fact: To eat for a full year, you need 24 standard 5 gallon buckets of food.
That number is based on Costco’s $1,500 year of food in buckets. Their price works out to about 4 dollars a day. To invoke a very tired cliche, that’s one latte a day!
