Answers.Body: <p>If you can't sell them making sand castles with them is an option I suppose. I would stick them in the loft for the future though if it were me. Simply because if you ever sell your LEGO boxed sets are always better and command a higher price.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>I don't find them very useful for storing bricks, but have used them as interim storage during a massive sorting project.  Also used 2 to grow tomatoes last year, but they tipped over frequently.  Best use I've found is as a small wastepaper basket.  (I recycle most paper, but I don't know what else to call a small trash receptacle.)</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Well the buckets themselves have value.
  If you can't use them you could sell them to people who want them.</p>
  
  <p>Your example set #5560 has an original box only listing on BrickLink, as do many other of the brick boxes, run a search for "brick box" you'll find lots.</p>
  
  <p>The prices vary from a few dollars, to ~$20 for you example. They don't seem to be big sellers, but there are some sales.</p>
  
  <p>If you have a lot of them and/or you want them gone quicker set up an eBay listing for all of them.</p>
  
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Body: <p>We have several bucket sets like #5560. </p>
  
  <p>Now that our collection is growing, it's becoming harder to find what we need in the buckets even though we have them sorted by color. Plus they are in a rather tall, wobbly stack in a corner and they keep getting knocked over. </p>
  
  <p>So I'm thinking of organizing the bricks into small drawers and getting rid of the buckets entirely. But that leaves me with a million ugly pink and blue buckets that have no purpose. </p>
  
  <p>I'm big on repurposing items rather than throwing them away. So tell me: what can I use these buckets for rather than storing LEGO bricks?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: "What can I use these buckets for rather than storing LEGO bricks?" Do you want to use these buckets for uses other than storing LEGO or storing stuff in general?
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Comments.Text: anything!  I just don't want to throw them in the landfill/ocean or have them sitting around taking up space.  They no longer work for storing/organizing lego bricks so I want to give them another purpose.
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Comments.Text: Theoretically you could use them as an inner support structure for large scale buildings like mountains or warehouses. I have no experience with it but it would technically keep such a large build 100% LEGO, while reducing its cost and weight.
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Comments.Text: I wish I had enough Lego to justify something like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPDolqztmBc)
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Title: Do you use the plastic buckets for purposes other than organizing your bricks?
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ThreadText: # Do you use the plastic buckets for purposes other than organizing your bricks?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-04-17)
  
  We have several bucket sets like #5560.
  
  Now that our collection is growing, it's becoming harder to find what we need in the buckets even though we have them sorted by color. Plus they are in a rather tall, wobbly stack in a corner and they keep getting knocked over.
  
  So I'm thinking of organizing the bricks into small drawers and getting rid of the buckets entirely. But that leaves me with a million ugly pink and blue buckets that have no purpose.
  
  I'm big on repurposing items rather than throwing them away. So tell me: what can I use these buckets for rather than storing LEGO bricks?
  
  **Tags:** piece-information, storage
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: "What can I use these buckets for rather than storing LEGO bricks?" Do you want to use these buckets for uses other than storing LEGO or storing stuff in general?  
  > **username_0**: anything!  I just don't want to throw them in the landfill/ocean or have them sitting around taking up space.  They no longer work for storing/organizing lego bricks so I want to give them another purpose.  
  > **username_2**: Theoretically you could use them as an inner support structure for large scale buildings like mountains or warehouses. I have no experience with it but it would technically keep such a large build 100% LEGO, while reducing its cost and weight.  
  > **username_3**: I wish I had enough Lego to justify something like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPDolqztmBc)  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2015-06-20. Score: 1
  
  If you can't sell them making sand castles with them is an option I suppose. I would stick them in the loft for the future though if it were me. Simply because if you ever sell your LEGO boxed sets are always better and command a higher price.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_5 on 2015-07-09. Score: 1
  
  I don't find them very useful for storing bricks, but have used them as interim storage during a massive sorting project. Also used 2 to grow tomatoes last year, but they tipped over frequently. Best use I've found is as a small wastepaper basket. (I recycle most paper, but I don't know what else to call a small trash receptacle.)
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_6 on 2015-05-01. Score: 1
  
  Well the buckets themselves have value.
  If you can't use them you could sell them to people who want them.
  
  Your example set #5560 has an original box only listing on BrickLink, as do many other of the brick boxes, run a search for "brick box" you'll find lots.
  
  The prices vary from a few dollars, to ~$20 for you example. They don't seem to be big sellers, but there are some sales.
  
  If you have a lot of them and/or you want them gone quicker set up an eBay listing for all of them.
  
  
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