On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 23:03:03 -0300, Joy Beeson
> wrote:

>On Thu, 29 May 2014 07:42:33 -0500, bluechick >
>wrote:
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>> I'd probably fall into one as well.
>
>I did a handstand in our chest freezer the last time we cleaned it --
>on purpose, to reach the bottom of the far wall.

Hi, Joy! Athletic freezer cleaning - it's all the rage these days.

>No way I could get inside without first taking out the partitions, and
>then it would be easy to open the lid -- it's held closed by its own
>very light weight and a rather feeble magnet.

Chest freezers still scare the heck out of me. I'm probably scarred
for life from my fear of my grandparents' freezer. I doubt I'm
exaggerating to say that that thing was probably a death trap. I
still remember how heavy the lid was. I'm sure manufacturers have
made alterations on the lids that make them easy to open from the
inside in case a child does get inside the freezer.

>I find it easier to find things under things than things behind things
>-- particularly since I can set the bag of breakfast sandwiches in the
>next bin over, so there's no risk of forgetting to put them back --
>the lid won't close until I do. The upright freezer that we run in
>fridge mode is convenient only because it's hardly ever even half
>full.

Yep, it's easier to move things up and out of the way in my upright
freezer than it is to get to things in the back. I have a
side-by-side fridge/freezer in the kitchen as well as the upright in
the basement. The side-by-side is very deep and I'm always losing
something on the back wall of it, resulting in me saying very
unladylike things while trying to get at said lost items.

>On the other hand, DH finds the chest-freezer lid a convenient place
>to sort things, so I often have to dispose of a newspaper before I can
>get a piece of bread, or I have to put away the cupboard and
>refrigerator stuff before I can put the frozen groceries away.

I can imagine the same thing being a problem here, with all sorts of
things stored on top of a convenient platform like that. Tools,
fishing gear, something too heavy to move easily, etc. I think that's
why I'd want another upright, even if they aren't as efficient.

I just hope all this freezer talk hasn't jinxed my old freezer. I
want it to work another 60 years!

bluechick