On Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 4:34:16 PM UTC-4, Arroyo seco wrote:
> 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.
Some people like winter. Sure, snowblowing gets tiresome along
about the third week in February, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere
really hot. Ideally, I'd live someplace where the heat never or
very rarely exceeded 80 F. Maybe after my big lottery win
Cindy Hamilton