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Hrm. Finding cheap, water-tight, food-safe plastic barrels is harder than I would have thought.

I've had luck finding these under the 'rain barrel' category in hardware stores and the net. Usually that means 55 gallon size, but you can also get smaller rain barrels too.

Yeah, that's what I'm following up on right now. This is for dry storage on the canoe trip, so ideally I'd find some in the 15-20 gallon range, with handles.

Standard rule: cheap, fast, good. You can have any 2. :)

Restaurant/foodservice supply might be useful here - once upon a time, my mother made a septic tank out of retired pvc apple juice barrels.

In the same vein, food service mayonnaise buckets - usually 5 gallons, and they have lids and handles.

Would a regular 5-gallon drum do?

Only if it's food-safe plastic. A lot of 5-gallon buckets aren't, mostly because of the dyes used in manufacturing.

Gatorade barrel? (If it keeps water *in*, it must be waterproof....)

Talk to fast food joints about grabbing a couple of their pickle barrels before they're thrown out in the trash. Food safe and water tight because they are used to transport 5 gallons of pickles in brine.

Pickle barrels were my thought, too. Pretty much any restaurant that serves lunch should have some.

http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/variant.asp?catalog%5Fname=USPlastic&category%5Fname=25&product%5Fid=292&variant%5Fid=75044

Hrm, that's not bad. If I can't find any recycled ones locally, I'll probably go with these.

I assume 1 gallon (http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=42) is way too small to be useful, and you need a wide mouth so this (http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=998) isn't useful.

What we always used for multi-day white-water rafting was big tupperwares in a waterproof stuff-sack. Everything went in the stuff-sacks except the beer, coz they float.

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