You can pay $4 and pick up a 5 gallon bucket at your local hardware store. BUT, I like having high quality and nice looking detailing products and this bucket is worth the extra investment! Clean and simple, looks good with a blue or red Grit Guard.

This here is a quality bucket. Don't go thinking you can just get any old flimsy bucket from the dollar store and have it hold up like this baby. Trust me, I just broke my dollar store bucket. It wasn't fun; water spilled everywhere. Plus, you can flip over your DI bucket and use it as a seat! That's two products for the price of one! (although using your bucket as a seat may or may not be a use endorsed by the fine people at DI)

Hard to say a lot about a bucket, but this one works. Great price, and when bought with a shipping discount, a no-brainer.