We grew up in the sticks (another old saying, I guess), but to us the slop pail was for anything that could be passed to the hogs (although there was an extra can for coffee grounds and egg shells for the chickens) and the honey bucket was the chamber pot. We heard "waste not, want not" a lot.
Originally Posted by Aurora
In my grandmother's house, it was called a "slop jar" aka "chamber pot". No pigs involved.