Beginner equipment recommendations?

[Gramps]

Lemme explain why the holes in the bottom of the dive bucket work for me:

I take off my gear and put it in the bucket, which I have on the ground. Any major gear drainage happens while we are all standing around talking dive talk "I went to a zillion feet and saw this huge fish, blah, blah" When I'm ready to split, most draining has occured. I put the bucket into my vehicle and it sits on the rubber backed carpet. Any or remaining drippage fall onto that instead of my van carpet. The rubber backed stuff dries out pretty quickly and to be honest, doesn't stink. Run the car vac over it and put it out in the sun every once in a while. Swank!