"Wayne Boatwright" wrote

> It seems we've always had a freezer. My parents always had two chest
> freezers. Even when I lived in apartments and condos I had an upright
> freezer tucked away somewhere. We left our old one in Ohio when we moved
> to AZ, but bought a new one almost immediately. It's not large, only 16
> cu. ft., but we got a really good buy on it at Lowe's.

I've had one for 15 years now. The old unit (left with the tenants when we
were in Sasebo Japan) was a commercial monster unit we never filled, but it
is now happy with a local church that has a soup kitchen.

The newer unit, gotten in Sasebo, is smaller but still a 24cubic if I added
it right 3x2x5 internal dimensions. Modern and energy efficient

I can estimate food savings with it. Roughly 25$ a month directly due to
being able to take advantage of sales in quantity and store stock making
stuff til there is enough to make a 4Gallon batch in the crockpot. Add the
savings of not buying stock <g> and we seem to figure about 25$ a month.

Figure it costs me a 10 mile round trip (nothing else that direction we go
to) just for seafood so thats about 1.10$ for my car and i have cholestrol
problems (beaten back to 220 only by a seafood diet), I can get in bulk
there and without the extra freezer, I'd have to go almost weekly. Call it
3 times a month.