Sears has come out with a USA-made Craftsman bucket, featuring vintage and newer style Craftsman logos in white.
The standard 5-gallon-sized bucket isn’t food-safe, but can hold tools, supplies, paint, dirt, garbage, or anything else you might use a bucket of this kind for.
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It’s $3.99 and classified as a “hot buy,” meaning coupons and discounts might not apply. You can’t order it online, but it looks to be in stock at Sears stores.
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Adam
After reading yesterday’s tale…. What would customer service do if I called and said ‘I have a hole in my bucket!’ ? Sir, let me get you to the parts department right away.
Morgs
Even more curious would be taking it into the store, showing them the defective product, and seeing how they respond. Sad to even contemplate such things.
Morgs
(^ that was a reply to Adam, BTW^)
Nathan
so at 4 dollars is this cheaper than the homer bucket or the one from lowes?
I might be. Looks better than the homer bucket from home depot
might be nice to have a different one – would be great with a lid too.
but you know red for this – blue for that. I might get one.
Ken
I don’t know but it seems to be $1 more than the 5 gallon bucket at Napa.
Blythe M
I think a lowes bucket is $3
Nate
Go to Firehouse Subs, iirc theirs are $2.
John
Pretty soon we’ll see these lined up in the aisles of the local Sears store to catch the drips from the leaking roof. Or, they’ll issue these to employees at headquarters to bail out the sinking ship. Buckets? Really?
Randy
Hahahahahahaha!!!!!
Nate
I wonder if you crack your bucket, will they give you another one under warranty lol!
Morgs
Is this a B/D product, or Sears licensed product?..LOL
Tom
Gimmicky tools and now buckets ? Sears is headed no where !
fred
Home Depot sells their orange 5-gal pail for $2.97. It (UPC 084305355546) is make by Leaktite in the USA. If you want an unadorned white pail from Leaktite – HD will sell you a carton of 10 for $39 ($3.90 each) or a 3-Pack of black ones for $14.97 ($4.99 each). I guess (LOL) the orange Homer pails come with a discount associated with your providing HD the free advertising when you carry it onto the jobsite.
Lowes blue bucket sells for $2.98 so maybe they didn’t get as good a deal as HD did with Leaktite – or maybe the free advertising is worth a penny less to them.
pf83
Buckets cost more around here in California. Lowes lower-quality bucket is $3.08 and the Home Depot bucket $3.18. The advertising on the HD bucket becomes somewhat of an issue when it is used conspicuously: My neighbor noted at a recent funeral that the workers filling a plot were using a number of buckets with “LET’S DO THIS” emblazoned on the side.
John
I can honestly say that I have never wanted to own a Craftsman bucket. No temptation here.
Mike
You can’t order it online, but it looks to be in stock at Sears stores.
IF you can actually find a Sears store
Tony Clifton
I waited for Menard’s to have another 11% sale before buying a dozen to make into self-watering planters. Saving 32¢/each was worth the work.
jesse
if you say so. wow
RC WARD
What do they mean by not ” food safe” I keep dry dog food in a HD bucket, is that a bad idea?
Stuart
Some buckets are specially certified for use with food.
Lowes has an Encore one for $4.
I guess there’s more oversight regarding the plastic composition and potential contaminants during the production process.
Jim Felt
Containers not actually marked as being good safe are not technically good safe. Like safe to store open (like milk!) “food” in.
Packaged foods and dry pet food are likely safe. I just wouldn’t be 100% comfortable knowing that the buckets might out gas for some unknown period of time…
fred
Non-food grade HDPE containers may contain non-food-grade stabilizers, or colorants that can leach out into liquids stored within them. As Jim Felt says, HDPE has a fairly high outgassing rate which can be exacerbated by high temperatures. Perhaps of more concern is the type of mold release agent that was used in the manufacture of the pail. Some amount of that agent will sit on the surface of the pail and may be transferred to food.
Jim Felt
“Good” safe???!! FOOD SAFE!!!
Darn iPhone spellcheck in a coffee shop dumbass tapping.
Next up: proofreading!
Brian
Good to see they’re still coming out with new, exciting tools. This is going on my bucket list.
Mike47
+1 for Brian!
KMR
Is that even a real product photo, or did Sears just photoshop some Craftsman clipart logos onto a generic plain bucket photo?
John
Sears actually have a product in stock to take a photo of? That’s a novel concept.
Pic definitely looks like a photochop unless they figured out how to put flat logos on round buckets.
Tom
I actually did see these in the store recently. They looked wider and shorter than the Home Depot ones, but my eyes could have been playing tricks on me.
Noah
I like the bright green Menards buckets.
Drew M
Not really since I have a red Tractor Supply bucket but I would like to find a black 5gal bucket or basically any color 7 gal bucket.
Yadda
I buy my red 5 gallon pails from Fire House Subs. They are pickle buckets so they must be washed thoroughly, but you only pay $2 dollars per bucket and they donate the money to a Firefighter’s charity.
https://www.fastcasual.com/news/firehouse-subs-intros-re-branded-pickle-bucket/
Grady
This is the best Sears has to offer.
I can see one day a boy perusing through his grandfather’s tool box and asking “what’s Sears Craftsman ?”
94GTCoupe
Just ordered one online and its ready for in store pick up.
Free after shop your way suprise points.
I plan to use it for dirty shop rags.
jesse
Love this tool blog!!! Love! However, perhaps comments should be turned off for this one. It’s a bucket. 5 gallon variety. Seriously?!!? Restaurants throw them away all the time. Again, it’s a 5 gallon bucket. I don’t get it, perhaps my IQ is not high enough
Stuart
No way!
I was counting on seeing some funny comments.
I figure it’s a seasonal gift item, similar to Craftsman clocks, barbecue tools, coasters, and other such things that they’ve come out with in previous years.
It’s a little silly, but hey – at least it’s made in the USA.
fred
On a more somber note – the buckets do have a safety issue – when filled with some liquid and left in the presence of unsupervised toddlers. Toddler bucket drowning is not a common occurrence but we should strive to make it never happen.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/89/6/1068
Steve
I can think of only one thing to do with this bucket.
glenn
Prepared for a fire sale?
Sorry couldn’t stop myself from saying it!
Koko the Talking Ape
And it is BRUSHLESS!
Stuart
Ha!
But not wireless (if you look at the handle). =P
glenn
So that makes it cordless then.
glenn
Or Bluetooth perhaps?
Toolfreak
I saw this online a few weeks ago. Says my local store has it in stock, but I’ve looked all over and didn’t see them on the floor anywhere.
If the pic is accurate, that red is way off – not even close to the Craftsman shade of bright red. I’d rather have a black bucket, would be cool if they offered red and black like they do with tool boxes and other Craftsman stuff.
Also sucks there’s no lid, even seperately.
I guess they negotiated a deal to buy a few million of these for a dollar or two and sell them for a tiny bit of profit, plus the free advertising. I guess when you’re struggling, every penny you can get helps that bottom line.
Ann
I don’t currently need another bucket, but I might get one with SYW points if they actually have them at my store. The great thing about buckets is they don’t take up any significant extra space to store one more when you can nest it with one or more other buckets. 😉
Mike
Time for Sears to kick the bucket!
Bob
I buy the buckets in different colors and use them as various tool boxes.
For instance:
Orange (Home Depot) – Electrical
Purple (Lowes) – Plumbing
White (Ace? ) – Tile
Old 5 gallon paint bucket – Painting
Matt
I actually went in to Sears to buy a few of these a couple weeks back. The guy at the tool check out counter had no clue what I was talking about. I had him look up if they could order them and once he saw the picture, he recalled that our local K-mart (where he was previously employed) had a batch of these last year in red and also in black. Anyway, he said he couldn’t order them nor were there any in stock. I didn’t realize they didn’t have lids though… I use these buckets all the time to transport oil and chemical. I’ve always bought them at HD or Menard’s but they have lids that seal really well that come with them. I figured some Craftsman ones would be cool but a bucket without a lid is useless.
Ann
They do exist! Saw a display of them Jun 16 in one of those cardboard bins they put in the middle of the aisle. http://i68.tinypic.com/6z0kdt.jpg
Boggsy
Holy canoli! I’ve never seen one of these before. Where do you put the battery?
Not the greatest painter, so I hope it’s brushless.