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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Freezer Woes

We have a full size freezer that lives in our garage. We have had it through 6 moves, more than 10 years and I love it. It is very convenient when there are great sales and I can just throw the excess in the freezer. The only problem is...the door. If you don't make sure you push it all the way closed, it will stay open just enough to defrost everything. Ours was just left open...again...overnight at least probably longer.
Through my tears of frustration, I threw away 4 containers of ice cream, one of which was a very expensive 6 quart container of Schwan's ice cream, two packages of popsicles, a pack of ice cream sandwiches, and various other minor items that didn't seem like they would refreeze very well. I have actually started buying less ice cream products because I hate throwing it away when this happens, which is every few months.
My next task is finding the key we have so that it has to be locked every time and might cut down on the whole leaving it open thing.

5 comments:

Shosh said...

oh no. so sorry. maybe get one of those child locks - we had one on our fridge when the kids were little. its basically just a latch that attaches to the fridge with adhesive but if you remember to latch it every time you close the freezer then it would keep the door shut.

Shosh said...

oh no. so sorry. maybe get one of those child locks - we had one on our fridge when the kids were little. its basically just a latch that attaches to the fridge with adhesive but if you remember to latch it every time you close the freezer then it would keep the door shut.

Orah said...

I was going to tell you about the latch, but Shosh beat me to it. I had this problem once. But my freezer had more meat in it than dairy products, so my garage smelled like dead carcass when it defrosted. Uch.

heidi said...

Oh man that sucks!!! :-(

Shosh said...

are you on vacation? where are you?!?