BUCKET (VAALI/THOTTI) Dear friends,
Yesterdaywhile returning after purchasing some medicines, I found plastic items spreadon road side close to my residence. I had purchased two days back two smallbuckets for wash room use. I needed one more. Knowing it was remolded plasticitems I purchased two small buckets, a large tray for my store and one pot forgrowing money plant inside. The first quality buckets purchased were priced Rs 110-00, but these secondquality buckets were only Rs 50-00 for the same size. Nostalgic memories about bucketscame to me. I thought of writing about the same. Gopalakrishnan 22-4-2022.(Former ITS) 1 Galvanized iron buckets In my boyhooddays though plastic soap dishes and combs were available, other plastic itemswere rare. The plastic also was brittle on those days. Laterproducts were of quality and notbrittle . We had galvanized iron buckets of different sizes for domestic use.Medium buckets were used for fetching water and small buckets were used fortoilet use. It was a practice to keep starch water in an old bucket fordrinking by cows. Till motor for lifting water became common, water was fetchedin GI buckets from the well. In the bath room for elders many used wide coppervessels to keep water. Water was carried in bucket to bathroom. 2 Brass and copper buckets. Tinned brassand copper buckets were used for keeping dishes during feasts. Smaller oneswere used for various purposes in the kitchen. During feasts large buckets werea measure for preparing items. 3. Plastic buckets During myhigh school days itself plastic buckets became common. Large buckets replacedcopper pots for storing water in kitchen. Smaller ones had more use like takingclothes and other bathing items while going to river for bath, for toilet useetc. There was a period either male or female member going to river ghat, only with a colorful plastic bucket. 4. Aluminium bucket For kitchenuse Aluminium buckets started appearing. More and more people started takingbath in home, Aluminium was sturdier for bath room use. For feasts use ofaluminum vessels became common. They had the advantage over copper and brassvessels since tinning was not necessary and had less weight. During 1990’sjust like that I purchased two aluminium buckets for bath room use. Itcontinued in use till 2004, my retirement. 5. Stainless steel buckets. Theappearance of stainless steel buckets made a change with caterers. All their aluminium items werechanged to stainless steel including large number of stainless steel buckets.Dishes after preparation are stored till date in stainless steel buckets for serving. Exception is some sweet itemlike Boli, and papad. It is a scene with most caterers’s serving staff inuniform, ready to serve with bucketsarranged in a table during feast. 6 Change in use of Plastic buckets. Now mostlyplastic buckets with cover are used in store rooms, and ordinary ones in bathrooms. Salt is stored in plastic bucket with cover in most homes, if not kept injars. Modified ones are used as wastebox. Other than in work area, plastic bucket use is reduced in kitchen. Plasticbuckets are widely used in outside use in homes. Clothes from washing machineare taken in plastic buckets for drying on clothesline. 7. Rectangular plastic buckets Though forsome time such buckets were common, they did not become popular. 8. Leaky bucket The leakybucket algorithm is a method of temporarily storing a variable number ofrequests and organizing them into a set-rate output of packets in anasynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network. The leaky bucket is used to implementtraffic policing and traffic shaping in Ethernet and cellular data networks. 9 Use of plastic buckets Due to wearand tear the plastic buckets of even 1st grade may break in course of time.Scrap merchants collect old buckets. So in most homes after 4-5 years plasticbuckets are changed, if not broken by the time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/918257452.228070.1650626515800%40mail.yahoo.com.
