If you remember lard buckets you are at least a 50′ s person. Since I was born in the mid 40’s, I grew up in the fifties. We always had lard buckets. They were metal buckets with snap on lids. The ones we got were about a half gallon, filed with fluffy white lard. Grosses me out now to think how much lard we ate.

Anyway, when empty we used the buckets to haul things like blackberries or hickory nuts. We used the lids as make shift plates when we had broken too many dishes. Sometimes we even used the buckets as “slop jars” or scrap buckets. If you don’t know what a slop jar is then you didn’t grow up in the country. Slop jars, chamber pots or whatever others called them, were used in the middle of the night instead of a trip to the outhouse.