Design & DIY

Cottage Coach: How to fill up a large bucket from your sink using a dustpan

We’ve all been there, struggling to fill up a bucket with water from the sink—the sink is too small and the bucket too big. The dustpan is likely not a household item you think of performing double duty but it works exceptionally well as a funnel for filling up buckets, as it does for sweeping up the dirt. Watch Cottage Coach Adam Holman in this video and add this to your list of handy hacks for around the cottage.

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