Well I think it was canebreaker that mentioned going to restaurants and asking about used buckets.....thanks for the tip, I got close to 20 buckets now from about 3 different businesses. Course I checked with 5 different places. and only scored on 3 of them so not all places had them. Burger King has pickle buckets and since there's tons of Burger Kings I thought I'd mention them for those wanting to get some. I may do some more than I'd planned on doing now that I've got more buckets. It's really the crete that costs so much at close to $5 a sack but that ain't too bad.