Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36989864-20181121142547/@comment-35901641-20181204142037

The frost free freezer on the side of my fridge is barely 10" wide. Our through the door ice maker broke after about 2 years (we hardly used it anyway) and you are right, that thing is a huge waste of the already limited space. I bought the upright freezer for only $25 dollars when my oldest boy was around 8 years old. That thing was over 20 yrs old at the time I bought it, so it has to be at least 40 years old now. Everytime the compressor turns on you can hear it rattle (I rattle now too, so I can sympathize) but it just keeps on ticking away.   You know how they put those "energy star" labels on new appliances telling you how much electricity they use?  I feel pretty sure when that freezer finally bites the dust my electric bill will go down by at least one third!

When we have a need for a large amount of meat (which isn't often these days) I like to drive to a meat packer located in a small town about 30 minutes away. It is a better price than in our chain stores and also tastes better. I went to the beach for 8 days at the end of October and picked up a 15 lb box of bacon to take. It was much less expensive than buying individual packs in the grocery so my thinking was that it wouldn't matter if we didn't finish it all. But we had a pretty good size group (core group of 14 with more coming and going throughout the week) and it was finished on our last full day, so it seemed it was the perfect amount and they want me to do it again next year. It's kind of weird though, just having a box of bacon with only wax paper between the three 5lb layers and no plastic wrapper to have to cut open. It would have been the equivalent of 15 of the regular store bacon packs (and probably more since I think many of them are only 12 ounces per package.)

Wow, that was a lot to write just to tell you that I agree with you about fresh meat, he he.