$20 Freezer

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Yes. $20.

Craig’s List.

Of course.

I can’t believe it! I’ve been watching Craig’s List for about oh 4 or 5 months now, looking for the perfect freezer for my family. I have seen about 24 dozen HUGE upright freezers or the chest freezers. And they ranged from $50 to $200! And where just not right. I wanted a medium sized chest freezer. About 7 cubic feet or so. It was too dark to see the type, but it was running great and needs a good scrubbing, but it’s in pretty nice shape. Only about 4 or 5 years old, the fellow said. He got a newer bigger one, so this was just taking up space in his garage!!!

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It looks like this one here… just perfect. I read somewhere that you can store about 25 pounds of food in a cubic foot. So 7 should give us almost 200 pounds of food! Oh my! That’s a lot. Well, I plan to use it to take advantage of all the awesome specials I find all the time… two for one meat deals at Kroger, great specials at our local meat shop, day old bakery items that are super cheap and for freezing our farmer’s market specials and of course, next year’s harvest! I can’t wait to freeze oodles of goodies from the garden and all! Just awesome.. and for only $20!!! Can’t hardly believe it.

The drive out to get it was so pretty…. Maggie went with me and we had to drive about 20 minutes out into the country to get it. Beautiful back roads and all awaited us. We talked on and on about our dream homestead farm some day. We’ll get it, someday.

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Beautiful fall colors next to the white headstones of an old cemetery.

Maggie had a kind of rough day today. We finally got an appointment to talk to the online school powers that be about getting her evaluated for some special services and all. She’s doing great, but she’s got a few areas that need some special attention and more level appropriate materials. It’s been a little challenging to get them to hear our needs, but finally, we were able to get an evaluation done. However, Maggie got a little frustrated with some of the testing, and some tears made for a rough time. She’s not one to get upset, but testing is very hard on her because she wants so desperately to be more age/level appropriate and is very aware of her shortcomings, yet overlooks her advances. So it was nice to have some time for the two of us to just talk and visit and dream about our farm.

Maggie is such an animal gal. She loves all kinds of animals and is very in tuned to them. I really think that she would be the most super farm manager in the world. (Of course, I would, I’m her biggest fan!) But she would…. she would be so focused on them, they would be blessed from the start that Maggie was their guide through life. I always think about that fascinately lady, Temple Grandin, also an autistic person, who is just so revolutionary in her work with large hooved animals such as cattle and horses and such. That is Maggie. She loves all animals, especially big ones. And small as well… but we started talking about those cool miniature cattle breeds and she was so fascinated.

And then, we got turned around and went down the wrong street and lo and behold… cattle. Minis. Scottish.

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Oh my gosh…. it kind of made my skin all goosepimply. I just love how we get these wonderful affirmations of our life’s pathway… like meeting Jen and Josh yesterday and now, this, the $20 freezer and the wooly little Scottish mini bull that was watching us and made Maggie just smile big and deep. She wanted to check them out on the internet when we got home and we definitely want to find out more!

That’s the way we’re going to roll from now on. Patience, knowledge and faith. Works for us. How about you?

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the banjo player for Deepwater Bluegrass, and the editor of BuckeyeBluegrass.com as well as the main graphic designer of the Westvon Publishing empire. She is a renaissance woman of many talents and has two lovely daughters and a rehab mobile home homestead to raise.

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$20 Freezer — 2 Comments

  1. Fantastic! I love the livestock!

    I am really excited for you about the freezer. You will probably find you wont have to shop as frequently now too, and that saves gas. :)

    More frozen onion space is always a plus. By the way, I also like to make my own soups and sauces and freez them in ziploc freezer bags. The kids can even put the whole bag in a pot of hot water, eazy peezy. :)

  2. there is a store around here, Strak and Van Til, I seen them selling those for 50 bucks brand new!! I would of bought one had I needed one. I barely even use the little one I have with my fridge.