Eventually, each color becomes more or less associated with the pony that uses the bucket. So when I can venture into pastels, I’m even more excited. Reds, blues, yellows-yes, please, but the primary colors are always easy to find.
When I need to shop for feed buckets, I take the colors seriously. I know some people like all of their feed buckets to match and will buy strictly one color for uniformity and aesthetics. Sometimes-if it’s almost too far gone to be useful-I use it as a makeshift trash can. Sometimes it gets relegated to life as a grooming bucket… a place to toss dandy brushes and sweat scrapers and a carrier of shampoo bottles. Sometimes it becomes a garden bucket… perfect for transporting garden soil, protecting wobbly seedlings, or hauling garden tools. But the life of the bucket isn’t over yet! When a feed bucket can no longer be used for feed or water, I repurpose it and give it a new career in another field. Okay, so even the most durable feed bucket sometimes gets damaged.
Or, if all else fails, to push hundreds of pound of body weight against the buckets with all their might. And it’s not from lack of wear and tear, because some of my ponies think that feed buckets represent an open invitation to rub, itch, bump, and scratch. Thanks to the amazingly durable construction of the average feed bucket, they usually do last for years and years and years. It’s not so much that I mind having to buy a new feed bucket once in a while, it’s just that I get sort of emotionally attached to my feed buckets (I know, it’s a little weird) and I like to be able to use them for years and years and years.
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