We've been saving for a new freezer. We gave our big chest freezer away when we moved. We bought a used 14 cu ft freezer when we got here. I discovered I liked an upright freezer, but 14 cu feet is not big enough. I also discovered I like a frost free freezer, as this one isn't. If you store anything in the door, you have to put a 5 gal jug of water in front of it to keep it closed. ::snort:: The freezer I settled on was $749.00. We've been saving....I figured I could get our 1/2 a cow in our current freezer and nothing else. I do have two fridges with freezer compartments, so we were planning to hunker down.
A local friend, Kim, called to tell me that she'd found the same freezer that I had my eye on at Lowe's for $578.00. I began to think that if Mike and the kids just gave me money I'd be able to add other birthday checks to it and be about 1/2 way there. Then Mike suggested we call the company with his backordered Christmas gift and tell them to cancel. He said to put the $ for that on the freezer. I didn't like that idea. I told him it was my tool and I'd be using it most. We realized HE'LL be eating more of the cow stored in the freezer, than I will. ::snort::
We were discussing this when Kim called back and Sears was having a one day sale on the freezer - 20% off/free delivery. We got it for $599; that's a lot cheaper than $749. It's a top pick for it's size from Consumer Reports. It's 20.3 cu ft; NOT as big as our old chest freezers but I think it will work well. It's frost free. We've been planning on this purchase and working towards it for over a year....I have a couple ready to take the old one. They've just adopted sweet Julia and could use more freezer space. I will not have to do headstands to dig things out of this one; though I may need a step stool to reach the top shelves. ::snort::
Here it is: Mike's Christmas Gift, De'Ettas birthday gift, Our Anniversary gift....
We ran into Kim and Brian at Sears - they bought one too and we had some fun fellowship there in the aisle.
We also went to a Victory Rally for Operation Christmas Child today. Mike was on the program.
Gotta get to bed...church tomorrow.
9 comments:
Congratulations on the great deal and the fun new present! Fill it well and enjoy.
Cool! (LOL)
And I'm glad I'm on Firefox!
De'Etta, Happy Birthday, Happy Anniversary and Merry Christmas! LOL I'm so glad you were able to get a deal! I'd love to have an upright freezer (we have two fridges).
I'm excited. Of course, I need to figure out WHERE it's going to go....but that will come. LOL
Sis: Graet on the freezer. I loved my upright years ago and the no defrost junk is great.
BEWARE and select real carefully the step stool you get..... :):)Just kidding... Don't want to fall.
What a great freezer! We have been considering purchasing a freezer here. Seems kind of extravagant here...most folks don't have freezers here. It would just be so nice not to have to go to the store so often. I don't think they have the stand up kind here. Just the chest type. Any helpful hints would be greatly appreciated since this is an appliance I have not bought before!
Jamie Z.
Thailand
What a wonderful freezer! Congratulations!!!!!!
If, and that's a big if, we ever decide to move I think we would get rid of our big chest deep freezer at that point and go with an upright one. I LOVE our new upright one, but it's quite old and the newer ones with pull out drawers would be much better. Anyway... GREAT BUY! I bet you'll enjoy it!
Jamie,
I think Mom had a small chest freezer when we lived in the barrio in the Philippines. Did you mom?
Tips - look for one that you think you can easily organize and care for.....our chest was HUGE - but it was hard for ME to sort through. LOL The new chest freezers have little dividers and baskets....
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