The tip I have to share this week is actually my mom’s idea, but she doesn’t have a blog so she won’t be sharing it with you Works for Me Wednesday readers.
We mill our own grain and bake our own bread. This means that we have five-gallon buckets full of grain to deal with in (or near) the kitchen. They hold about forty-five pounds of grain apiece, which makes for heavy buckets. Enter Mom’s terrific idea: rolling plant stands. A twelve-inch-diameter rolling plant stand
Great idea!!
Great tip!!
My babies and toddlers think it is great fun to push those buckets around–and I don’t have wheels on the bottom of mine! I keep my flour in 3 gallon buckets with gamma lids and my wheat in 6 gallon buckets (the open one has a gamma lid) near my grinder in my pantry. I just keep my oats in the 6 gallon bucket with the gamma lid (I have those on all my open buckets–wheat, oats, popcorn, powdered milk, bread flour, all-purpose flour, rice, beans, etc for ease of opening) in the pantry. I can’t lift the 45 pound 6 gallon buckets by myself. I have to have my husband lift those.
Your rollers sound nice, though! My children would never bring my buckets back!
Wow; your toddlers can push your buckets?! You must have strong children! (I can barely push mine. 🙂 ) I can imagine the little ones running off with the buckets on rollers, though. “Wheat Bucket Derby, main hall, in ten!” lol