Harbor Freight's 5-gallon bucket is for more than just carrying tools and holding materials. Here are some innovative ways to use this handy tool.

If so, this is the perfect year to finally figure out some sort of metering apparatus so that greedy preteens are less likely to steal your stash in one sweep.

They used 5-gallon buckets with snap-on lids to make "sit upons." With a couple of vinyl tablecloths, some holofil material and glue, they created decorative padded seat covers for their buckets.

Enough flushable wipes to fill a five-gallon bucket almost shut down the entire sewer system in Keiser, Arkansas.

[Figjam] took a 5 gallon bucket, wrapped the inside with two layers of swamp cooler matting, made a loop of hose above it connected to a submersible pump and ran a fan out the top with piping.