Sorry to hear of your plight old son, it just goes to show you never know.
Although it looks unprofessional, I still prefer my trusty milk crate to a pointer on a lot of jobs.
Holsten Pills is my weapon of choice 
very strong if you can find one
i use a "lucozade " crate .. i cleaned what had been an old pub and it had been closed ten years but the pub yard still had loads of crates and the woman said take yer pick . i took one blue Scottish &Newcastle crate and 1 lucozade