Now all the cash is spent, it's still the grand romantic gesture, in another kind of way: dangling a line off the wall at high tide and waiting for a crab, taking him home in my bucket, cooking him on the Campingaz stove, cracking him open and eating him – one of the sea's great bounteous luxuries for nowt.
Now that I'm a father I've left my job at Walmart and spend my third bucket cooking dinners, giving baths and reading books to my kids before bed.
A pool of melting ice had formed around a boulder, and a porter crouched and filled his bucket for cooking.
They include sleeping mats, buckets, bowls, cooking pots, water purification tablets and a few utensils.
The interior is organised with pride: neat rows of buckets and cooking pans, a kettle, a plastic tablecloth, a laundry basket, a made bed, a lino floor, a photo of Soweto's Kaizer Chiefs football team.
Additionally, UNICEF has provided more than nine miles worth of plastic sheeting for emergency shelter, thousands of water containers, buckets and cooking pots, and is distributing around 80,000 litres of water each day.
Once they have reached the relative safety of the camp, people are given basic supplies including plastic sheeting, buckets, and cooking utensils, by UNICEF and partner Médicins Sans Frontières.
Off to the side are a slop bucket, a cooking pot and a little red stool, apparently used by the "doctor". "This was one of the most important postwar sculptures in L.A., and it really belonged at the museum," said Stephanie Barron, LACMA's senior curator of modern art, who led the campaign with Henry T. Hopkins, a veteran museum director and UCLA professor emeritus with close ties to the artist.
When other places began ladling sauce from a bucket, Totonno's was still cooking plum tomatoes canned in San Marzano.
In another largely Muslim neighbourhood, PK12, families camp out in grass and mud with buckets, carpets, mattresses, discarded rubbish, cooking pots over charcoal fires and a constant fear of lobbed grenades.
* The start-up kits include locally-procured foam mattresses, cooking utensils, plastic buckets, plates, cups, spoons, slippers, bath towels and soap, to meet the needs of a family of five.
