On 10/15/2015 2:05 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 02:26:40 +0000 (UTC), "Yes"
> > wrote:
>
>> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:19:57 +0000 (UTC), "Yes"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Kalmia wrote:
>>>>>> Yes wrote:
>>>>>>> Off topic - Are there any consumer refrigerator manufacturers
>>> who >> make >> refrigerators for use in the home that devote say 60%
>>> of the >> machine to >> freezer space and the remainder to cold
>>> space. It >> seems like the >> ratios for regular refrigerators may
>>> be 20% freezer >> and 80% cold.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why do you want so much freezer space? Are you 100 miles from
>>> your >> > food source? I'd rather have more COLD. For me, the
>>> freezer is >> > just a place to lose or forget stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>> For me the solution was simple, I acquired a second refrigerator
>>>>> freezer, for $100 from a used appliance store, granted it's no
>>> frills >> but no one sees it in my basement, twelve years later it's
>>> still >> working fine. For very little money I have lots of both
>>> extra fridge >> and freezer space... also solves the problem of what
>>> to do with the >> produce from my vegetable garden. I like the idea
>>> of a second >> fridge-freezer just in case my main unit stops
>>> working, I have a place >> to move the food.
>>>>>
>>>>>> AND - in case any fridge designers are reading this -- how about
>>> a >> > foot pedal to open the door when we're laden with stuff to put
>>> away? >>
>>>>> That won't solve the problem, you'll still have both arms full,
>>> get a >> cart/small table on wheels... although a properly designed
>>> kitchen has >> counter space adjacent to the fridge.
>>>>
>>>> Not a feasible solution for me. I live in a 1,000 sq. ft. condo
>>>> with a galley style kitchen built in the late 70s. It was laid out
>>>> quite well for then, but attitudes, designs and gadgets have
>>>> changed drastically since then. My budget hasn't. sigh.
>>>
>>> All you'd need is a small cart that folds for storage... how many
>>> times do you shop in a week? Most times when I do a large shopping I
>>> place all the bags on the kitchen floor, items for the fridge right
>>> next to... more than half what I buy gets carried down to the
>>> basement. I mostly use those cloth/insulated shopping bags. My only
>>> shopping problem is keeping the cats out of the bags... Barny can claw
>>> open a 20 pound bag of dried in a heart beat. I have to keep dried
>>> cat food in 6 gallon galvanized covered pails, I have several. I'm
>>> positive you don't buy more groceries than I do, I buy more groceries
>>> in critter food than a family of ten.
>>>
>>> Maybe you need to move, to a real house.
>>
>> Have a spare $400K then?
>
> Seems you have Champagne taste with a beer pocketbook.
> Move to where real estate is less expensive. Where I live one can buy
> a very nice 3 bedroom 1,500 sq ft house on several acres for half that
> price, and plenty of well paying jobs of all kinds nearby.... search
> real estate in Albany County, NY.
>

Yabutt...

You get some crappy winters there.

Good cheap real estate can be found all over the desert southwest, and
you don't have to buy snow tires.