I Need 101 Uses for a Bucket

[jhilgeman]

That's right. I need 100 + 1 = 101 uses for a large, white, plastic, 5-gallon bucket. Send me all your ideas, both realistic and insane. Here's what I have so far:

1. Self Defense

2. Portable Chair / Stool

3. Holds Water for Washing Your Car

4. Makes You Invisible if you put it over your Head (if you can't see them, they can't see you, right?)

5. Holds Dog Droppings (Doppings?) when you walk the dog.

6. Emergency Port-o-Potty (aka Holds People Droppings)

7. Protects Contained Belongings

I think I had a few more, but I failed to write them down last night. Don't ask - just suggest. And no, I'm not kidding, I really need all your ideas. :)

- Jonathan

[carju1]

Temporary goldfish bowl
portable mini step ladder
plant container

I'll have a think :)

Julian

[paulhiles]

Impromptu charity collections
Collecting water underneath drips (very novel!)
Throwing water over fires (equally novel!)
Christmas tree holder (if filled with soil and covered in wrapping paper)
Emergency rubbish bin

hmmm...there must be umpteen others!

Paul

[matauri]

1. For making really big sandcastles
2. For bailing out a boat
3. To wash the car
4. For a costume to play Ned Kelly ;-)
(edited: new suggestions)
5. To hold fish/crabs, etc, when you go fishing.
6. In anticipation of finding all the chocolate Easter eggs on an easter egg hunt ... yumm :-)
7. To catch really big huntsmen spiders when they are in the house (they get pretty big!)
8. Washing sand off your feet after a visit to the beach



Thinking.......



Cindy

[wenwilder]

1. Potato container
2. Sugar container w/lid
3. Airconditioner prop
4. Auto parts storage
5. Used oil storage
6. Brother revenge tool - when filled with paint and dumped over his head, my brother looks good in blue!
7. Artist Painting tool - when filled with paint and holes poked in the bottom
8. Storage for cleaning supplies in the trunk of a vehicle
9. Mop bucket
10. Peices parts container for a child who loves to take apart electrical items
11. Lego storage unit - so you don't have to step on the little peices while running through the house
12. Snowball arsenal
13. Snowman creation tool
14. Snow sled
15. Snow ski's
16. Suitcase
17. Cat cruiser - or bruiser depending on how you look at it - poor critters :(
18. File 13
19. Snake cage
20. Tadpole pond

(If you ever need idea's for what an item can be used for, ask a kid! I did!) :)

[tertius]

1. Stretch a skin over the top for a drumhead

2. Stretch one or more strings across the opening for a bucket harp

3. Set a pair of windup chattering teeth under the bucket and use it as a trap for the gullible (see who turns it over to investigate the noise!)

4. Set a RC (remote control) car under it, and guide it intermittently down the sidewalk the evening of 10/31...see who you can startle, and record how high they jump! (Works even better if the RC car has lights--cover w/ colored cellophane for an eerie glow while the bucket is in motion!)

5. Cut a slit in the bottom and secure the handle with the 2 ends extending out from the bucket, secure medical tubing between the handle ends with a leather patch in the middle--bucket slingshot!

6. Secure two dozen or so buckets end-to-end, filling alternate buckets with sand, creating a 5-gallon bucket caber for your next Highland games caber toss.

7. Cut a 'donations' slit in the lid, and suspend the bucket under a sign requesting "donations of belly-button lint for a school weaving project".

8. Secure an 11" polypropylene speaker to one end of a bucket, repeat with a second bucket. Connect to a stereo system with appropriate wiring after suspending the buckets inverted from your house eaves and propote the use as a weatherproof stereo speaker setup.

9. Make a small hole in the bottom, thread clothesline through the hole and knot securely. repeat the process with a second bucket, utilizing the other end of the clothesline. Hand one end to the incredible Hulk while retaining the second bucket. Alternately hold between ear and mouth as appropriate and use as a Hulk hotline can telephone.

10. Fill with water, add a dozen goldfish and a 5 year old with fishing pole, line, and split-shot sinker; use as a preschool fishing pond for parents needing a couple hours to do housework. Post Governmental Warning Notice on bucket pond: "Not appropriate for use around hyperactive children or children raised on sushi". [No offence intended for those members who find sushi a gastronomic delight... -T]

11. Cut 5" slot in lid on a given number of buckets, pass out at a club or user group meeting and announce a contest. Winner is the first person to fill up the bucket in the shortest amount of time with those unsolicited "free trial" AOL CD's. Contest rule #1: Eligible CD's must be addressed to the contestant, immediate family member, or residence address.

(There's my 10% contribution to "the cause"--and you're more than half way now!!!)

LoL
-Tertius

[Greyhawk]

Rather Large Canteen
Making Home made wine / beer
Making Moose Milk (alcholholic drink)
Foot stool
Suports for a wall unit (Place planks across the buckets, you need two at least)
Emergancy recpticle for the morning after the night before
Big Paper weight
Recycle bin
Prop for improv group
and my personal favorite

Conversation starter (leave it in your living room or carry it with you everywhere you go people will look at you strange and soon some one will ask why you are carring it)

Greyhawk

[Greyhawk]

My Girlfriend works at a salmon farm and she says the following.

To hold dead fish
To hold fish eggs
Yo holf the fertilizer for the fish eggs (trying to be PC here)
To use as a PFD (personal flotation device)
To hold ashes from a fire place.

Greyhawk

[Pilfo]

Take a bucket and fill it with water,
Put your hand in it up to your wrist,
Take it out, and the hole that remains,
Is the measure of how much you'll be missed!

Anon

[mikmik]

-Pretend to get foot stuck in one and pace nervousley all day in hospital emergency waiting room making a step THUMP step THUMP sound
-Pen and pencil holder
-Put pillow inside for cat to sleep on
-Tear up a whole bunch of bits of paper and pretend to throw water on the audience
-Play soccer with it at 4 in the morning
-wallet
-ashtray
-TV stand (or CRT monitor)
-Cereal bowl for those really big time late night snacks
-Make sourdough (Needs lid)
-Dirty clothes hamper
-fill with old newspapers like you were planning to recycle them
-holder for more buckets(One of them has to go on the bottom)
-put 4 or 5 inches of water in and then whirl around in vertical plane and marvel at how centrifugal force keeps water from spilling as it passes upside down above head

-completely fill with odd nuts, bolts, nails, screws, etc and put the lid on. Do this with about four our five of them and put one empty one at the back of the group. Ask your assistant to move them to the storage room on the third floor. Make sure the empty one has handle suckt in upright position and/or stick the bucket to the floor with small amount of glue, just enough so that it will let go with a firm but light tug. Then watch hole magically appear in ceiling when assistant picks it up.