If you’ve got them keep them inside and out of the weather/ direct sunlight. The short Menards buckets with Gamma lids are my go to waxed dirt buckets. I had a couple sitting outside this summer and they sun rotted quickly and one bucket was full of water the lid looked good on that one but it was a mess.

Had some issues in the past with the O rings not staying in place they just expand and fell off. The ones I store inside I have no problems with but I’m not happy with using them in the field for very long. Now I have several buckets with no inner lids that won’t take a different lid they might be tough to get the threaded part off.

At $7-$8 a lid kit the $2 cheap lid is looking better but they sun rot also. Once the fur shed is back together this will be less of a problem.

I bought one and put it on my wax sand bucket a month ago, got tired of fighting the snap on lids, and I lost one of them going down the highway somehow. Day after I bought the Gamma lid I seen another brand in the grocery store for about 2/3 the price that looked identical except you can get them in all sorts of colors. I know my dad lost the oring off a Gamma lid, but so far I am really liking mine with no issues yet. But it hasn't seen a lot of sun or real cold weather yet, the two things that tend to seperate quality plastic from the junk stuff.

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I have several i have had for over ten years. I store sugar, salt, dried beans rice ect in them.
If your in them often the o ring won't last and if you use the bucket for a step stool the lid will crack.
. I like them for my purpose mostly long term storage foods.

Menards used to have them at like at that price? Hard to find good lids

Indoor long term storage is what they are made for really indoors they might last a long time but our season runs 7 months that’s a lot of exposure time. All plastic seems to breakdown in the UV rays over time some faster then others just the lids are not cheap.

I got one that’s been in the back of the truck with my dry dirt in it for several years now with no issues.