On 6/2/2014 7:42 PM, bluechick wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 23:03:03 -0300, Joy Beeson
> > wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 29 May 2014 07:42:33 -0500, bluechick >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>
A few years back I bought several heavy duty plastic baskets, square
ones. Have been storing like things in them since. Two years ago or more
we bought a bunch of flowers to dress up the yard at our old house and
they came in plastic baskets that held six four by four inch plastic
pots for flowers. Planted the flowers and ran the baskets through the
dishwasher on a warm cycle and converted them into freezer baskets too.
In addition I keep a chart taped to one side of the 15 cubic foot
upright freezer that tells me where everything is. The only problem with
the system is that my lovely wife just tosses stuff in the big freezer.
I keep meat in the upright freezer part of the refrigerator and know
where what is on which shelf. I get itchy if I don't have things
organized. I may just be sick. <BSEG>

George

That's why tomorrow afternoon is "rearrange the big freezer day." T