Home Improvement: Painter's "Pro" Tip

A few years back my Ace stopped carrying Benjamin Moore and started carrying Clark and Kensington. Both are excellent quality paints, so I'm fine with that. However, my complaint with C&K is that their cans don't last. Give them a year or two and the lids are a rusty, falling apart mess, even if you keep them in a closet in the house. My solution to this has been to use any free air tight container I can get my hands on to store leftover paint. Depending on how much I have, my top favorites are: clear juice jugs, mayo jars, peanut butter jars, and the containers my cats' tartar control treats come in. I know you can buy plastic containers, but why? Isn't there too much single use plastic floating around in the ocean anyway? As for the plastic buckets that the paint comes in originally, I keep those and clean them out for use in the garden, etc. They are handy for a multitude of tasks and can be spray painted for decorative use as planters or any thing else you might want a small container for.