Well… I’ve been on this bug where I think I want to buy a freezer. Yep a chest freezer… I have a place for one and over the weekend I found a great deal on Craig’s List and thankfully it was a little too big for my space so I had to pass.

Wait. Thankfully?

Yeah… as much as I really want a freezer… it really occurred to me, I am hardly using my frig freezer properly… why do I need to buy another appliance to run, and cost me to try and fill it when I’m doing such a awful job with the one I have!

Sometimes waiting is a very good thing.

Here’s my freezer right now. Let’s examine it, shall we?

Okay, first.   Ice Cubes.   I have almost 1/4 of my freezer devoted to ice cubes.

And usually that ice cube bucket is empty.

And so are most of the trays it seems most of the time.

We are not good ice cube makers really.  I try, but the recipe is so difficult.  It’s the fill and PLACE IN THE FREEZER part that I seem to have trouble with.

And then… there are like 3 bags of yucky store bread in there.  We got them when our old bread machine died and hadn’t replaced it yet.  With homemade bread, we eat it and never freeze it.   It’s supply and devour.  It doesn’t linger and take up space.   Here we have more freezer space taken up with cheap $2 or $3 worth of bread that is getting so old that it just cumbles when you thaw it out.

There are two bag of cheap-o meatballs in there.   We got them, and they are okay, but kinda well, not really that great.  They have been in there a couple weeks now, so obviously not real high on the food chain for us.  Oh yeah, and one nasty breakfast TV dinner that has been in there for about 3 months now.   No one liked them…. I got some for $1 each at Meijers and thought that was kinda a deal.  We ate a couple and then decided it was something close to cardboard.

Now, the only good thing is that there is a bit of good meat shop wrapped packs in the bottom and to the right.   A couple pounds of ground beef, two packs of marinated chicken, some pork country ribs and a little sausage.   Which takes up less than 1/4 of the freezer.

(Oh yeah… and some ice cream in there.   The only reason it’s still there from our birthday party/Mom’s Day celebration is that the kids were gone for the last three days…  I am not a ice cream gal… they are…  ice cream doesn’t last long in our house… hahaha)

The door is not much better.   There is a little bag of dog bones that the butcher gave me…. a ham bone from Easter that I’d like to make soup with…  and a nearly gone bag of ravioli.

So, why on earth do I need to spend more money for another freezer?

I feel like my own mom….  I can hear the words in my head.   “You can not get another freezer until you learn to take care of the one you have.   Honestly…. ”

Gosh inner Mom voices can be so mean sometimes.

So, starting tomorrow.   I am ditching the nasty breakfast dinner, crumbling up the bread for the birds and ditching the nearly always empty ice cube bucket. I will allow the ice cube trays, but I think I’m going to try and make sure that I FILL THEM UP when I use them.

I think I’ll get the ham bone out and we’ll make potato soup in the crock pot tomorrow.  And I’ll clean it all out and all.  I’m wondering if I took out the shelf in there, if I would be able to pack more in… hmmmm…..  i might try it and see.

No more bread and junk in there.   I am going to go to the butcher shop tomorrow and see what is on sale.   And then get a good amount of that.  And a few other things.  And see how neatly and more organized I can get my freezer to run for awhile.   Now as pick your own crops and all come in and we want to start buying in bulk and all, then it might make more sense to get a freezer.  But not until I can prove to myself that I can keep the one I have jammed packed with good stuff…  sweet deals and all that.  Tomorrow is the Perrysburg Farmers Market…. can’t wait!  Yum!  We’ll go and see what is available…  and maybe find some goodies for the freezer!

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