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A HOLDER FOR RELEASABLY HOLDING A GENERALLY-CYLINDRICAL CONTAINER COMPRISING: (A) BRACKET MEANS; INCLUDING A GENERALLY-FLAT RECTANGULAR UPRIGHT PORTION WHOSE UPPER END IS GENERALLY NARROWER THAN ITS BOTTOM END, SAID UPRIGHT HAVING A SEMICIRCULAR CHANNEL FORMED IN THE BACK THEREOF AT A TRANSVERSE LOCATION ABOVE THE CENTER OF SAID UPRIGHT SAID UPRIGHT ALSO HAVING A PAIR OF HOLES FORMED THERETHROUGH ABOVE AND BELOW SAID CHANNEL AND ADAPTED TO PERMIT A FASTENING MEANS TO PASS THERETHROUGH; A HOOK PORTION DIVERGING FORWARDLY FROM SAID UPPER END OF SAID UPRIGHT AND CURVING UPWARDLY AND THENCE REARWARDLY TOWARD SAID UPRIGHT PORTION, THEREBY FORMING A TRANSVERSE FORWARDLY PROJECTING FIRST PROTUBERANCE ON THE FORWARDMOST SURFACE OF SAID HOOK PORTION AND A GENERALLY UPSTANDING TAB SECTION; A BASE PORTION FLARING FORWARDLY FROM SAID BOTTOM END OF SAID UPRIGHT AND TERMINATING IN A CONCAVE EDGE ADAPTED TO GENERALLY CONFORM TO THE OUTER SURFACE OF SAID CONTAINER; AND A SECOND PROTUBERANCE FORMED ON THE UPPER SURFACE OF SAID BASE PORTION HAVING A GENERALLY-STRAIGHT, VERTICAL FRONT EDGE AND LOCATED SLIGHTLY CLOSER TO SAID UPRIGHT THAN THE FORWARDMOST EXTENSION OF SAID FIRST PROTUBERANCE; AND (B) CLAMP MEANS; INCLUDING, A FLEXIBLE TUBE HAVING A LIMITED DEGREE OF ELASTICITY AND OF A PREDETERMINED LENGTH; AND A JUNCTION WIRE, HAVING A DIAMETER SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN THE BORE THROUGH SAID TUBE, WHEREBY THE ENDS OF SAID TUBE MAY BE SLIDE OVER THE ENDS OF SAID WIRE AND HELD TOGETHER BY SAID WIRE TO FORM A GENERALLY-CIRCULAR LOOP, SAID WIRE ALSO HAVING A BOARD CHANNEL FORMED THEREIN ON THE INTERIOR OF SAID LOOP WHICH IS SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN THE BREADTH OF SAID TAB SECTION OF SAID HOOK PORTION; (C) SAID LOOP FORMED BY SAID WIRE AND SAID TUBE BEING SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN SAID CONTAINER WHEREBY FORCIBLY PASSING SAID LOOP OVER SAID CONTAINER CAUSES SAID LOOP TO FRICTIONALLY AND ELASTICALLY ENGAGE SAID CONTAINER AND PASSING SAID TAB THROUGH SAID CHANNEL IN SAID LOOP FRICTIONALLY AND ELASTICALLY ENGAGES SAID TAB BETWEEN THE INNER SURFACE OF SAID CHANNEL AND THE OUTER SURFACE OF SAID CONTAINER DUE TO THE WEIGHT OF SAID CONTAINER; (D) SAID BASE PORTION BEING SPACED FROM SAID HOOK PORTION A DISTANCE SUFFICIENT TO PERMIT THE BOTTOM OF SAID CONTAINER TO REST ON SAID BASE WITH THE SIDE OF SAID CONTAINER IN CONTACT WITH SAID VERTICAL PORTION OF SAID SECOND PROTUBERANCE WHEN SAID LOOP IS IN A FIRST POSITION ON SAID CONTAINER AND TO PERMIT SAID CONCAVE EDGE OF SAID BASE PORTION TO CONTACT AND SUPPORT THE SIDE OF SAID CONTAINER WHEN SAID LOOP IS IN A SECOND HIGHER POSITION ON SAID CONTAINER.