Do you lock your freezer
@GardenGerty (169406)
United States
October 6, 2024 5:22pm CST
This discussion only applies if you have a separate freezer. They often have locks.
I can understand. At my other house the freezer was on the back porch. Some people have theirs in garages.
Many years ago, when I still had at least one younger kid at my house, I had a "play fort" equipment with a slide, swings, etc. I hung a hammock under it as well.
A neighbor had a son with some behavioral issues, who "ran away". It turns out he was sleeping in that hammock, and eating things out of my deep freeze, like bread, etc.
That was when I started locking my freezer.
I just remembered that when I was pushing freezers around this weekend.
What is in your freezer? My upright one is not full at all because I thought it did not work, so I cut down on what I bought. I will move my turkey into it from the chest freezer. That will help with things for sure.
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@AmbiePam (120533)
• United States
6 Oct 24
My grandma had a separate freezer that went in her garage, but she never locked it. Quite frankly, she had so much food in there I don’t know how she’d tell if something was missing unless she was looking for one particular thing that particular day.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
7 Oct 24
I only knew because his mom told me, and asked me to lock it.
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@AmbiePam (120533)
• United States
7 Oct 24
@GardenGerty I wondered how you figured it out.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
8 Oct 24
@AmbiePam He probably told his mom himself. You know how kids are.
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@2ndchances24 (12188)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
6 Oct 24
I have 2 stand up freezers, 1 in the trailer for husbands food & 1 in the cabin with my food
we have no reason to lock ours it's just the 2 of us & we don't have any 1 come over so.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
7 Oct 24
Anymore anyone who would break in would steal electronics not food anyway.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
8 Oct 24
@2ndchances24 They had best be warned.
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@2ndchances24 (12188)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
7 Oct 24
@GardenGerty if any 1 breaks in our place they won't
be making it out alive or even in 1 piece & WON'T be found.
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
7 Oct 24
I don't have a separate freezer, just the one that's part of my fridge.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
7 Oct 24
Yeah, those do not have locks and when I was a newly wed that is all I had.
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
7 Oct 24
@GardenGerty Did it have one of those little cubes that needed defrosting every week?
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
8 Oct 24
@BarBaraPrz No. My first refrigerator I bought was second hand and had an ample freezer on bottom and was frost free. $65 at the thrift shop. I remember those you are describing though.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
7 Oct 24
My deep frezer has a lock but I don´t have the least idea where is the key. I have never locked it. The freezer is in my garage and the maids that have worked here are forbidden to open it unless I tell them to. It is not so much because they might steal anything but they could leave the door ajar. So the freezer that´s part of the fridge is for everyone´s use and this other is mine.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
8 Oct 24
@marguicha I will be right over for cake.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
7 Oct 24
I do not know where my keys to my freezers are at this time, but they are indoors. A left open freezer would use a lot of electricity and you would still lose a lot of food.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
8 Oct 24
@GardenGerty Exactly. But only I use it. And I tell Anita that I´d cut her hands if she used it.
But seriously, there is nothing anybody would be interested in getting out of there. Except now that I have a piece of frozen cake hidden there.
But seriously, there is nothing anybody would be interested in getting out of there. Except now that I have a piece of frozen cake hidden there.1 person likes this
@kaylachan (84699)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
7 Oct 24
The only freezer I've ever had was attached to my fridge and those don't have locks. If I needed to lock something like that, I'd never have one.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
7 Oct 24
A lock would also prevent a child from crawling in to "play". I do not lock mine.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
8 Oct 24
@kaylachan Most are the top of the fridge, although I have had some bottom freezers.
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@kaylachan (84699)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
7 Oct 24
@GardenGerty Well ours is the top half of our fridge. Somehow, I doubt a child would be able to reach it. Not that I have any children.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
7 Oct 24
Having a stand alone freezer lets you organize and the temperatures are colder for your meat. As I understand it.
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@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
7 Oct 24
I do not have a separate freezer, I don't need that much and after my last grocery order on Saturday I have a full freezer.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
8 Oct 24
When I bought extra freezers I had seven or more people living with me. I doubt I will ever buy another one.
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@sallypup (69157)
• Centralia, Washington
7 Oct 24
I'm glad that kid found a way to eat. I don't have a way to keep the critters out of a bag of cat food so that's in the back chest freezer. And lots of bags of summer fruit, some wheat kernals that we make flour from. Sometimes there are vegies from the store and cheese and bean burritoes.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
7 Oct 24
I do not think the kid really was doing without at home. He was mostly playing at running away, as he chose my house, a safe spot, less than two blocks from his house and stayed put. I think he did not want to clean his room. We kept an eye on him. He was about twelve.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
7 Oct 24
I do not remember a lot of the details. It may have been him "playing" at running away. I started to do that once, and my parents offered to pack my bags. Took all the steam out of my intentions.
@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
7 Oct 24
We have a chest freezer in the garage. It is loaded up with food and frozen dinners. My husband is a food hoarder! Have a good week.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
8 Oct 24
I hope he comes home and uses some of that food.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
8 Oct 24
I thought that they all pretty much came with locks on them.
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@luisadannointed (11842)
• Philippines
7 Oct 24
Wow it only comes to mind right now that locking it is very important, I just saw it on stores they lock it when they are about to closed, but if you have kids inside the house I think it is better to lock it they might harm themselves as they are playful.
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@FourWalls (86575)
• United States
7 Oct 24
Wow, I couldn’t fill a separate freezer! My parents had one when I was a kid, back in the days of going to a butcher and getting a LOT of meat at one time. I have four containers of my infamous potato soup, potatoes and broccoli for more infamous potato soup, and frozen yogurt bars. Wow, I’m a big time hoarder.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
7 Oct 24
Now that my upright one is working I need to rearrange. I like to buy turkeys and hams and large pieces of meat for the chest freezer. I have lots of broth in it right now but it would be more accessible in an upright. I bought the chest freezer the time my upright went out because it was inexpensive (scratch and dent) and I wanted to save my food. So I got the upright fixed and now I have two.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
7 Oct 24
As long as there is no body taking things out of it, you are in good shape.
@somewitch (1470)
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7 Oct 24
I don't know if the cellar freezer has a lock, but nobody enjoys going to the cellar so the risk is minimal. 
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
7 Oct 24
I think the days of stealing from the freezer are long past.
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