I am so excited!

[tinabohio]

The husband went and ordered my upright freezer at Sears! 7.5 cu. ft and it was 20% off and I had a $5 coupon! Now I will really be able to take advantage of more Giant Eagle food deals. That's why I posted here :biggrin:. This will make it so much better for me!
Now to get it plugged in as soon as he gets it home Tuesday so I can go get my Eggos and other stuff Wednesday evening! I cannot fit ONE box of Eggos right now, and mommy just does not make waffles at 7:30 am on a Monday!
That and the Super Pretzels et al, they are taking up all of the space up in our freezer on the bottom fridge!

Here's hoping there's some stuff we need next shopping week too so I can fill 'er up!

[pittsburgh24]

Yay!!!! You will love having it - hopefully, there will be a ton more deals to fill it up

[neekyme]

Congrats! I wish my DH would had listened to me when I told him the 4.2cf was too small. I'd love to have a 7.5...ohh the Eggos I could fit in there! LOL You're going to love it!

[jen276here]

Congrats!!! I just know you will absolutely love it!!!

I just bought a new freezer too! We have our upstairs and downstairs refrigerator-freezers, but both were packed to the point of almost having to duct tape the doors shut. What a difference since we got it! Now I have beef/pork freezer, an everyday freezer (for items that we may have opened but not used up, like icecream, waffles, etc) and the big freezer for everything else and poulty items.

Happy shopping to fill it!!!

[sagesonamabuster]

I'd love to have another small fridge. That would totally make my day!

[MJKNEeley]

It's like you just had a new baby! LOL

I just got one for Christmas and it is quite full! You will LOVE it! It is easier to coupon frozen food items having it. Congrats!

[elena_398]

We got out Sear's deep freezer last year. Best money I've ever spent. Almost full already with all the frozen food deals. lol

[CrazyforYeshua]

CONGRATS!!!!!

If anyone belongs to the PIP program for their electric bill, see if they have the audit program where they come and audit your fridge and freezer.
They do that here, and my OLD (as in about 30 years old) freezer was using $21 a month, so they gave me a brand new Frigidaire 21 cf upright with all the bells and whistles.
FREE!!
Retails for $729 :BigHand::smile77:

[TerryTerrific]

Freezers should really come with a backup generator.

I remember in 2008, there was a thread about how owners of freezers dealt with a power outage.

It was not pretty.

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Terence in Brook Park, oHIo

[tinabohio]

I got some stuff in her today... aaaahhh! She's so pretty sitting there next to our (now) stacked front loaders. Just quietly doing her job.
I am grateful that we have not had any major power outages her like my friend in Parma gets. Those are AWFUL! She had her power go out in '02 and she had to struggle to heat her daughters formula (and her mother got on her about breastfeeding- just offer her a way to heat the formula lady!).
If we lost power significantly we'd be over at my aunts house in 5 minutes after loading our girl up into the husbands truck. My uncle has generator(s) amoungst many other things.
I can't wait to go get my steamfresh tomorrow afternoon! Time to get with the neighbors about ordering some meat to split!
Thanks for understanding the happiness people; I'm sure my friends on Facebook would think I'm more crazy than they already do!

[PK_OH]

Tina -
Congratulations on your new freezer! I love mine. We've had one for years - took a break from having one when we moved here and left the other one with our old house, and boy did we miss it! Mine is now completely full and it is great to know that I won't have to buy butter, frozen veggies, and lunches for a long while, and Eggos for a little while (coz we really go through those). We bought the original one we had back when we had very little money and I am still convinced that all of the money it helped us save is what made us able to buy our first home. We used to live on those frozen chicken breasts from GE (back then the sale was 99 cents/lb), free Lipton/Knorr rice, and free frozen vegetables. Lunches were free Hot Pockets/Lean Pockets, breakfast was free yogurt, which kept our basic food expenses (this was be4 kids) at milk and multivitamins so we didn't get any nutritional diseases.

One thing I do that gives me a quick check to make sure everything's been ok with my freezer when we've been out for a while or away for a few days is to keep a Ziploc bag of ice cubes in there. If you have a power outage when you're away, the ice cubes will start to melt, then when the power comes back on it'll start freezing again. You'll be able to tell this happened because there'll be a frozen puddle of water at the bottom of the bag. Mine's so full now that I'm down to a quart bag for this - I just use the ice cubes that come from the ice maker in my fridge/freezer. So far I haven't had any issues but this little check makes me feel better.

Hope this helps!

[FunnyFace]

I'm so excited for you! We plan to buy one this year and I can't wait for the opportunity to buy grass fed beef by the side and fill the freezer with awesome deals a few times a year instead of shopping every sale. Oh and to be able to cook in batches and have a place to put those meals and ... LOL Totally understand your excitement and giving "her" a living pronoun. ;)