milk crate big enough?

[crtrlovr]

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I'd seen someone else's post with that comment in it, so I thought I'd try to get some; our local walmarts don't sell or give away the buckets anymore, they said they send them back to the main distribution centers.

ETA: For nest boxes, my girls have a dresser drawer, a former waterbed headboard that has dividers in it making it 3 sections (laid on its side), a milk crate, and two cat litter boxes (not the ones the cats use to go in, the boxes the litter actually CAME in) with one side cut out. their favorite places are the milk crate and the cat litter boxes.

 

[Tala]

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I'd seen someone else's post with that comment in it, so I thought I'd try to get some; our local walmarts don't sell or give away the buckets anymore, they said they send them back to the main distribution centers.

I think that's BS, because a lot of my in laws work at WM, which is how I get the buckets so easily ---- BUT they just throw them away they don't send them back anywhere.

I'm pretty sure that the companies don't re-use icing buckets. We get the same brand icing (Brill? I'd have to go check a bucket) at Papa John's and we don't have to send the buckets back. They are cheaper quality plastic than the 5 gal buckets you can buy (such as at Home Depot) and the lids don't really fit as tightly as the kind you buy, although they have a nice O-ring seal so they do seal up without being SO hard to open like the hardware store kind are.

They don't even get them on pallets, just a few buckets tossed in with a load of produce. I really don't think they are even organized enough to have a "reclaim" program.

If they started keeping them it's a VERY new change.

 

[GeneGoddess]

I know this is an old thread, but I was looking up nest box ideas and...

My local WalMart SELLS their used icing buckets for $1 each. Of course, all of the local grocery stores give them away, as does Costco.