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I'm having people over for New Year's Eve. I did half my cleaning last night, the other half was scheduled for tonight. I stopped by the grocery store on the way home and picked up a few things. Got home, and went to put the freezer stuff in our big freezer in the garage. . .
It's warmish. All the frozen veggies have thawed. some of the meat has thawed.
Oh, joy. Frost has apparently built up where we can't see it and the freezer won't function again until it has been defrosted. So, I call my mom, find she has room in her freezer (hopefully) for our stuff, apart from that which has thawed and the stuff my housemate has let freezer-burn because she never eats anything but frozen dinners any more. I throw out probably a hundred bucks worth of food that we don't dare eat now, and pack up all the rest in a cooler and a bin and schlep it over to my mom's. Who fortunately only lives about 15 miles away.
We manage to get it all wedged into HER freezer around HER stuff. Then I go home, eat, and finish cleaning the house in between defrosting. And we're trying to defrost a freezer in the garage in the middle of winter at night. My mom loaned me this neat little defroster thingy-- it's probably from 1952 and it's a heating element inside a metal cage with bakelite feet. I used it for a while but the housemate kept panicking because 'it smells funny' so I finally gave up and unplugged it. I just hope the freezer thaws by tomorrow night so I can go get all my food and repack the freezer before any of my guests actually arrive.
*sigh*
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It's warmish. All the frozen veggies have thawed. some of the meat has thawed.
Oh, joy. Frost has apparently built up where we can't see it and the freezer won't function again until it has been defrosted. So, I call my mom, find she has room in her freezer (hopefully) for our stuff, apart from that which has thawed and the stuff my housemate has let freezer-burn because she never eats anything but frozen dinners any more. I throw out probably a hundred bucks worth of food that we don't dare eat now, and pack up all the rest in a cooler and a bin and schlep it over to my mom's. Who fortunately only lives about 15 miles away.
We manage to get it all wedged into HER freezer around HER stuff. Then I go home, eat, and finish cleaning the house in between defrosting. And we're trying to defrost a freezer in the garage in the middle of winter at night. My mom loaned me this neat little defroster thingy-- it's probably from 1952 and it's a heating element inside a metal cage with bakelite feet. I used it for a while but the housemate kept panicking because 'it smells funny' so I finally gave up and unplugged it. I just hope the freezer thaws by tomorrow night so I can go get all my food and repack the freezer before any of my guests actually arrive.
*sigh*
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Well, at least you didn't lose all of your food... :P
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I hope you'll have a great time with your guests, though!!!
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Yes, depression is, well, depressing. I just keep hoping she finds a way out.
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Have fun tomorrow night!!!
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re: freezer defrosting, I use big pots of boiling water. The rolling boil furiously hot type. Set one on each shelf of the freezer, close the door and come back in 10 mins. Voila. I believe this would be the lazy arse poor man's means of thawing, but it works like a charm. Good luck!
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Nowadays, since neither of us cook, we make do just fine with the tiny top-of-refrigerator freezer. :)
Angie, a work friend, went over to dinner at somebody's house the other day and when she got there, this woman's FURNACE had died. After helping her determine how to get somebody to fix it (since she was the first one there), Angie and the other dinner guests huddled about eating in the freezing-cold kitchen.
Personally, I'd have hustled everybody off to McDonald's if nothing else! ;
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I'm sorry, Kellie. It's the last dying gasp of that fucker, 2004....
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*g*
2004 has been one for extremes. *g*
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In some kind of karmic sympathy ploy with your freezer, my water heater burst yesterday.
Luckily we noticed very, very early, and got it drained (thank you, clever children!) before the water got very far. Now I also know that the sump pump more or less works. Oh, and how good is it the have your water heater burst the day before a holiday, rather than on the holiday?