So when you buy previously used… You don’t get to be picky. Sometimes there is a dent or a scratch. Maybe each container is not the same size. These difference are what make our products unique, why they still sell better than their corporate counterparts. We don’t just sell you a rain barrel, we sell you an idea… We help you reduce your carbon footprint and “point-source-pollution”. When you buy a Home & Garden product from Maxi, whether it be a drum stove made from a steel drum or a pickle barrel turned into a rain barrel or compost tumbler, you are reusing a container for a sustainable purpose. Your rain barrel or compost tumbler’s function is exactly that, to save rainwater and make nutrient rich compost but there is more too it the that, we want you to know that we do this so you can be proud of that barrel. You can tell your friends, family, neighbors, the clerk at the local grocery store, just tell whoever about it’s environmental benefits and hopefully they will tell somebody. We believe in what we do and thats a start, hopefully soon more people will realize it’s not about how the barrel looks (though we try and get the best style “terra cotta” color barrels we can find) but what it does. I guess it’s the age old argument of what matters more, fashion or function? What do you think about aesthetic versus the purpose or function of a rain barrel? Let me know here or please go ahead and tweet me @MaxiContainer.