You may joke, but there’s a lot you can do with a bucket.
-> You can fill it full of Acid Splashes (technically instantaneous conjuration [creation] spells, and as such, the created acid stays forever) over the course of several months, and dump it on someone for several hundred d3 damage
-> You can stand on it for the +1 higher ground advantage to attack
-> You can fill it full of soup. Yum.
-> You can fill it full of holy water, prop it up over a vampire’s door, and knock. Fun for everyone!
-> You can sit on it.
-> You can dig a makeshift grave for Redcaps in snow with it, and thus not have to use your bare hands. Oh, wait…