On Friday, October 16, 2015 at 12:19:15 PM UTC-4, Arroyo seco wrote:
> On 10/16/2015 4:28 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thankfully so, or all of Chicago would be down here now.
>
> > 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
> >
>
> That would be Caliphonya, enjoy!

We can't move to California. My husband owns too many guns.

Cindy Hamilton