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The Many Uses For Olive Buckets

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Some may ask, after my cheap Walmart olive bucket alert, what the heck do you do with an olive bucket?

Sure, you could tote some olives around in it, but seriously, how many olives can a person eat.

Olive Out uses hers all the time and in this instance she used it to hold some scrumptious hydrangea.

Olive bucket from Olive Out

Source – Olive Out

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I’ve always secretly wanted to put a little Christmas tree in one like Lisa at Fern Creek Cottage did. Isn’t that fun?

Olive bucket from Fern Creek Cottage

Source – Fern Creek Cottage

Kim at Savvy Southern Style has placed a luscious fern in her olive bucket in her lovely sunroom.

Olive bucket from Savvy Southern Style

Source – Savvy Southern Style

Ann at the beautiful White Lace Cottage used one to hold her fragrant lavender

Olive bucket from White Lace Cottage

Source – White Lace Cottage

Or if I build a fancy chicken coop like Heather Bullard did, I can give the chickens their very own little tree in an olive bucket. I’m not sure what the tree is, but could it possibly be an olive tree?

Olive bucket from Heather Bullard

Source – Heather Bullard

Other fun things you can do with them are:

  • Turn them upside down and use them for lampshades for hanging lights.
  • Use them to store wood beside the fireplace – picture birch logs and a roaring fire.
  • Use one in your bathroom to hold toilet paper – picture . . . well, maybe you don’t want to picture too much in the bathroom.
  • Gosh, just about anything!

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Using Olive Buckets In Your Home Decor



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  5. Too cute! I saw these for the first time at Gold Rush Days in Oronoco MN last August. I wondered ‘what do people want these for?’ Guess I was a bit behind the times. I did not buy one and maybe I should have. Duh.

  9. Visiting from Be Inspired where I saw your post on olive buckets at Wally World….will be checking that out….which led me to this post….now I really want one for a Christmas tree!! Following you via Bloglovin’! Love your blog….it is all that I love to do!

  10. Thank you for showing my beloved olive bucket. Now I must have a wee Christmas tree in it. But will the bad bad Gremmie cat let t be? That is the question. xo, olive

  11. Such great ideas! I love Lisa’s bucket with the Christmas tree, although I must say that I’d love to live someplace warm enough that I could have an actual olive tree growing in it.

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