The Wait is Finally Over! Organizing Our First Stand Up Freezer!
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- After saving for years, we finally upgraded our freezer and I am so happy! Join me in the freezer organization of 2 freezers!
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This is why I prefer upright freezers. Everyone says get a chest freezer because they’re more energy efficient. My response is that it’s not efficient if I lose food in the bottom. With an upright it’s so much easier to rotate the food, know what you have and it’s easier on the back.
Yep - if the power goes out, chest freezers are also easier to save - but yes to all of the other points you made! I can store more food now, and it's SO EASY to get to everything now - less food waste to freezer burn.
@@ThePurposefulPantry if you keep your upright freezer full it will stay cold for a long time. Mine stayed frozen in our January 50+ hour power outage. But I would still like an additional chest freezer for bulk foods like fish
I agree. I had an upright for that same reason.
🤣🤣I just made an enormous comment including same thought. We are anxiously awaiting for our upright-Ugh! Probably another month😣. WAY too many years of a chest freezer-WAY too many.
I have to laugh my friend! 😊 but I got to be honest. I did the bin thing too and it didn't last long. When Food is on sale especially meats, and you can't pass it up, those bins are gonna take up a lot of space and eventually one by one you will take them out. I tried the bin idea many times and it just didn't work for me. So what I've done was designated each shelf in the freezer for specific types of foods. One for meat, one for chicken, one for fish, one for freezing homemade dinners and odds and ends, and the bottom basket is for odds and small ends. I use my door panels for freezing small items I can place inside those one quart wonton soup containers we get whenever we order soup from Chinese take out. 😋 I love the jar idea for the doors too. But my jars become to valuable for canning and wind up having to transfer things out. But the wonton soup containers with lids work great as long as you keep liquids one and a half inch from the top.
Right - so you adjust. Nothing has to stay permanent. Whatever works for you works! Most of our meat is going to end up on the shelf canned, but this is the interim stage.
I loved the bin idea. I may opt for a flat bin with holes and like you thought to use each shelf as a general category. So much better than digging on your head🤣
OMG I'm the first commenter LOL I always see your videos way later in the day I just happened to be up earlier today LOL. I agree with you about chest freezers versus stand-up freezers I will never do a chest freezer ever again it is just too hard to dig out everything on the bottom
We had everything stored in bins and heavy-duty grocery bags, but even with that, getting to the bottom was harder. This is SOOO easy for me!
OMG! You’ve said it! Not to mention Defrosting the blasted things! Chests are not energy efficient when you have to unload it so much🤣🤣
Those door shelves are also good for chocolate chip bags. Stand them on end and line them up
So every time you open the freezer door to grab something or put something away, you hand all by itself grabs a bag of chocolate chips from the door, fills itself with a hand full of chips and then finds its way to your mouth ! That's your reward for having a well organized freezer - a little treat of chocolate chips......yum......
I would get a dry marker board the width of the freezer door. Mount it with COMMAND Velcro strips. Make the tape grid on the marker board. The command strips will be way less damaging to the freezer surface.
I used this method to secure a framed cork board to the side of my refrigerator/ freezer and it has been securely mounted for 3years so far.
Great video Darcy. I got rid of my freezer. It's just me, so I Can everything and I make Ghee. I keep 8 sticks of butter in the fridge . It works for me because I don't have children
I use a dry erase board that sticks magnetically to my freezer. I have columns for each type of meat and list below what I have. When I lay out meat for the week I update my totals. I do a full inventory once a year when we get our beef and I have to rearrange. I don't really track the store bought meals/ freezer meals.
I organize my stand up freezer with a dry erase board. We draw lines for the shelves and a side column is for the door. We're supposed to update it we put things in and take things out, but it doesn't always get done. I do a full inventory every so often.
Congrats on your new freezer!! That's so exciting! You've organized it beautifully. I hope this relieves stress as I remember the frustrations of a chest freezer. I'm happy for you & I could feel the happiness in your voice too! 😊❤
Thank you so much!
Ok, I have what looks like the same freezer. My inventory is on a flexible magnetic dry erase board just exactly where you said you wanted yours. It's about 20" X 24". It works great. I divided the board into 4 parts. One for beef, one for pork and chicken, one form fruits and vegs and the last one for misc. like butter, nuts, bread etc. I used marks to show how many of something in the freezer and then each time I removed say a hamburger, I would erase one mark and go. Some items I don't inventory and keep track of because they don't stay very long. Like ice cream, frozen muffins, or snacks. Good Luck with your new freezer!
Thanks! That's the same basic idea I have about how to track. Thanks for your tip!
I love those containers!!
They worked perfectly for us!! I was glad they were also on sale when I got them!!
@@ThePurposefulPantry , could you post a link for those?
www.containerstore.com/s/multi-purpose-bins/d?productId=10022942
Inventory with graph paper listing items by shelf/bin and place in sheet protectors. On graph paper put a /for each item. Have dry erase markers to / other direction to make an X when take item out of freezer. I just tape on freezer as many as I need! Easy & works great!
Congratulations. Stand up freezers are great.
The best!
We know🤣🤣. Can’t wait for mine to arrive! Learned after many decades and our folks with chest freezers. A lot of things get lost. It was a shocker of what we found in in-laws freezer. There were things way too old on the bottom they kept repurchasing on the top. My folks thankfully gave up the chest in the basement years before they passed. We were all brought up with the chest being most efficient especially in a power outage, but we have generators and solar now.
I love my upright freezer. I try not to put stuff in my chest it is 54 years old and still working. My parents gave us the chest freezer Christmas 54 years ago
The frost up kinds were built to last forever. Newer - especially new ones, that are frost free, like cars, now have a built in life expectancy of like 10 to 15 years, then it's cheaper to buy a new one, over trying to find parts to fix up the one you spent good money on. I had a repair man tell me, new appliances are now made kind of crappy and not designed to last. I think a good idea is to put away 20 - 50 bucks a month away and not touch it, so in a few years, when your expensive appliance gives up the ghost you already have the money saved for a new appliance.
I have a clipboard hung on the wall near my fridge and freezer. It includes a list of all my freezer meals, including date made. I also have my menu plan, shopping list, and a couple other things on there to keep everything food related together and organized.
Nice job thinking of the flash freezing shelf! Smart. Always hard to balance that stuff!😅
Looks great, I painted a very large chalkboard to keep the inventory from my freezers in my UK kitchen so i can sit at the kitchen table and write the food list for the week and then if i take something out i change the board, hope that's helpful
That's a great idea!
I LOVE the idea of an extra shelf for flash freezing and I’m going to look into getting one - thank you once again for valuable info!
Glad it was helpful! There are some hanging shelves you can get from the Container Store (or I'm sure any other really big box store) that might be less expensive than a new shelf for your freezer, so look into those, as well.
Saving a space for flash freezing was brilliant! Congrats on freezer and organizing. Does feel great. 😃
I have an idea for your empty shelves. I keep my herbs and spices in the freezer because they will last forever in there and i don't have to worry about having them turn stale and wasting money. Also, powders, such as garlic and onion won't stick together in the freezer.
I don't bother, but it's a great way for you to. I don't have empty shelves any longer :D :D
So helpful! Not the fake social media perfection, but just real life organization! Thank you!
it wont be big enough shortly lol, I am ready to buy a walk in freezer lol
Really like that idea for the extra shelf for flash freezing.
My parents gave us their old upright freezer years ago. What a gift. It's still running strong. We recently defrosted it and reorganized everything. I really like those clear plastic bins, I'm going to have to look into them.
We freeze bread one shelf for buns , sliced bread & english muffins we shop at the day oul bread store . Prices are 3 or 4 loaf of bread for the price of one at the grocery store.
The flash freeze shelf is genius
Thanks!!
Thanks for the great info and all your hard work!
Nice - so happy for you.
Congrats on your new freezer!
Congrats on new freezer ! Looks great. Your bins n labels are super.
Love the flash freezing shelf.
I love your freezer organization! Now I need to go get a butter bin!
I just bought this exact same freezer. Thanks for sharing your storage tips.
You have inspired me to reorganize my upright freezer, thank you!!❤❤
I've had an upright freezer for 27 years and I LOVE IT! I'll never go back to a chest freezer. I also have a side-by-side refrigerator for the same reason - stuff gets lost!
Good thinking for the flash freeze shelf 🙂
Love the flash freeze shelf idea! You just solved one of my biggest problems. No more jamming the sheet pan wherever I can find a spot. Thank you!
You are so welcome!
😂😂same here. As soon as it arrives after 2 mos I will be done processing. So can’t wait to kick the chest freezer out the door. Maybe I will make a root cellar out of it😁
Congratulations on your new, big, upright freezer!
The flash freezing shelf is BRILLIANT!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️
I have been watching your you tube videos non stop! I'm trying to soak up some of your knowledge. I really have enjoyed you! I recently purchased a Nesco. I haven't used it yet. I'm so excited! I'm from NW Arkansas. Thank you so much.
Congratulations.
Thats exactly what my hubby did! It really made a difference. Great minds think alike
You might ask -- what happens if the power goes out? www.thepurposefulpantry.com/freezer-tips-for-a-power-outage/
Hook up a generator.😅
Edit, I just checked this out, good tips.
I'm really glad iv watched this video, I'm going to get another freezer but not sure what one.Thank you so much you have helped with my decision 💖
We used strong velcro, and attached a dry erase board to list our inventory.
Next to duct tape, I love velcro !
OMG! I just bought the same exact freezer this past Friday. I went to TH-cam for suggestions on organization! I actually have those bind from the container store I have used for other things. Bug with my extras I am now going to the freezer!!
Congratulations on the new freezer! 🎉
Thank you!! 😊
I just have a typical apartment fridge, and it was a jumbled mess. Your video inspired me to clean my fridge and freezer and organize. I like those bins you got from Container Store so went and got some- they were on sale too!
Great video! I am getting a new upright freezer next week, and I’m going to laminate graph paper, put a magnet on the back and use erasable markers to do my inventory then change it as needed 😉
Darcy, can you give me links to your bins for organizing?
It's in the description box - it's just The Container Store. www.containerstore.com/s/multi-purpose-bins/d?productId=10022942
Exactly what I've been looking for. We too had a couple LARGE chest freezers for 50 yrs. Defrosting them was a pain as I couldn't get down to clean the bottom of the freezer. Almost fell in head first a couple of times. So we got two upright freezers but organizing them didn't come easy for me. Hopefully this video will help. Also I appreciate the plastic container link. Amazon is "out of sight" on their container prices!!
Congratulations! 💚💛💙 SO excited for you, Darcy! It's a big deal to achieve a goal like this nice upright freezer. Way to go, kid.
I adore my upright freezer. Never did like a chest freezer and my daughter loved them until she got an upright and now she has 2!
Love this video! So nice to see how ppl organize their fridge, freezers, chest freezer, stand up freezer.
I've seen some ppl have a magnetic white board with wipe off marker just put on their fridge/ freezer. And they just put what they have on it.
I really need to do this! I love the extra shelf And the containers! I bought 25 lbs almond flour a few years ago, and haven't used it as fast as i thought i would. So it's taking up a ton of space in my freezer.
So smart to have a temperature alarm.
Yep - it is the only way I'll have a standup since you lose everything much more quickly with them. It kept going off during all the stuffing and filming, though - drove us mad! LOL
We need one! How do you hear it though if its closed in the freezer?
the alarm is not in the freezer - it's the sensor. The base is in our kitchen where it is easily heard
This is amazing and I am so jealous! So happy for you. I can relate to the chest freezer issue. Thank you for the video!
Thanks for watching!
Freeze hummus and feta!! Yes!!! I'm psyched now
I grew up with a chest freezer and it was such a pain for my mother. So I made sure to get an upright when I got my own house. Love it!
Nice freezer. Adjustable shelves is a real plus. Mine used to look organized, not anymore, lol. It sure fills up quick.
Just came across your video and this is by far my favorite upright freezer organizational video. Love those bins, makes everything look so organized and easy to find.
Awesome! Thank you!
I totally understand, after years of struggling to find things in my chest freezer, last year i bought an upright freezer, best decision you will ever make 👍💕
Bless your heart! Very happy for you !@
Thanks so much! It has been a great upgrade for us! I love going to get food for dinner now :D
Love your videos! I am saving up for a small chest freezer! It will be perfect since its.just me and my 2 kitties. I am SLOWLY working on building up stock and a.good pantry for when money is tight. ❤
Your freezer looks amazing 😍 we have an upright freezer that needs to be defrosted about once a year - it has four shelves so very similar
A few years ago I unloaded the freezer into some semi-transparent rubber maid totes and realized when I was ready to load up the freezer again that 3 of the totes fit on to the shelves basically turning the shelves into drawers - so much easier to manage!
Great idea!!
@@ThePurposefulPantry yeah, I’ve had this freezer for 15+ years and have only felt organized using it since using the totes - I’m kicking myself I didn’t try this earlier !
So organized! Envy. Read that peanut butter will take off that adhesive on the door. Great idea the flash shelf. Love the Cricut labels and the storage bins. I have a half size/apartment size upright which gets so much frost in it. I hate defrosting that. I just stuff things wherever in the freezer. I don’t find much on sale or clearance.
I love the idea of having bins in the freezer! Wish I had thought of that! You are such a smart lady!
I watched a lot of youtube videos then figured out something that would work for me. I do have to say the flash freeze section is all mine, though :D
I have always had an upright freezer. We bought it in 1994. It is still working. The amount of people who tried to change my mind was amazing. So glad I stuck with what I wanted.
Small world...our 21 cf garage ready upright freezer just arrived today!! We are SO excited! Thanks for the great organization ideas 💗.
That is awesome! Have fun with it!
Great organization of your upright freezer. I had a chest freezer and I’m short, so getting to the bottom was not happening. Look on She’s In Her Apron’s channel, she has a freezer inventory chart. I took the pruned one and had it blown up and laminated, works great.Thanks for sharing and have a blessed evening!!
Congratulations on your new upright freezer! It is the only way to go. I've got 2 and I'm so glad that I didn't get a chest freezer.
I'm quite grateful for the job the chest did for us for so long - but yes, am happy about this!
Thank you so much for this video!!! We have been looking for a good storage solution for our freezer for quite some time. Going to the container store this week! lol.
And the idea of the extra shelf for flash freezing is totally brilliant!!!!!
Couldn't post a photo here, but i used adhesive vinyl to create a reusable calendar on the side of my fridge. My fridge has a textured surface though, so i had to put down a base of white vinyl first, then put the black vinyl grid for the calendar on top. Its been in place for several years now and has held up well.
Thanks, KellyAnn - I got your email with it ;) Thanks.
What a coincidence , we just got a new up right freezer as well. I also went for bins in the freezer . I now just need to label and store like with like. Enjoy your new freezer 😉
You, too!
Love your freezer organization. We have bought the Lost Ruby Ranch goat cheese, It is very local to us. He has all kinds of flavors. Love it.
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Darcy, we were in the same boat with you concerning our 20+ year old chest freezer. We ordered our new upright freezer and it will be delivered Thursday. I love how you have your new freezer organized. I plan to do something similar. And your labels are beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
I hope it works for you - I'm so glad not to have to crawl into mine to get things now!
Nice big freezer.... I tend to vacuumn pack most everything and file them in their own category bin like a file cabinet...saves alot of room & hassle trying to find items!...Good luck & Have fun organizing.... Thanks for the video!
Yep- I do, too, but we got to where we were just living off the top layer and I quit - now that everything is in and organized, I'll be processing a lot more vacuum sealed like we used to.
Bravo! Looks great. Did the same thing only with totes from dollar store.
Congrats on your freezer. Upright is so much easier for frozen food storage (we also have a small chest freezer but for big bags of dry goods..primarily flour and legumes, keeps them from getting rancid and/or bug infested). The flash freezing shelf is a brilliant idea! I am always trying to balance my trays on top of other foods. As for inventory, I think a chalk board is the best way to go. Hang it near the freezer and keep altering quantities as needed - get two boards, one for meats and the second for veggies and fruits. Better than doing anything on the freezer door itself.
Everything in both my upright freezers is vacumm sealed & I find the stuff tends to slide around too much, on both the glass & the wire shelves. I tried the bins,,but still wasn`t working for me. So I bought inexpensive semi-see thru laundry bags...filled them up & stacked them up. no more slip sliding & falling. Not the prettiest..but as I`m the only one that gets into the freezer..I pretty well know where everything is. I keep map lists on the side of 1 freezer. But I can see the bins working if more than 1 person is getting in & out of the freezer. Looks good!
My freezer went out as well it was 38 years old and I'm getting a new one it was supposed to come this week but they said it'll be one more week longer. I'm so excited mine's an upright and it's frost free. I agree with what you said I love some things in the freezer but I love dehydrated and canned food as well. After my freezer went out and I lost much food couple months ago made me nervous
Congratulations on your new freezer. My upright just went and I had to get a box freezer to save my food. It was a large freezer and now I so miss it. I hope I can find another one soon.
Love those bins. I use the reusuable shopping bags with handles and label the side of them and slide them in on the shelves because they are pliable & hold so many things when I vac seal meats and lay flat. i just pull out a bag and fill it from the bottom and take a meat package from the top as the top is the older stuff! Love it i have 3 tall upright 20 cubic freezers! I want more but the fuse box wont allow it right now lol Also I stock butter too & 2 of the 1 lb packages fit nicely in front of each other on the door shelves My 3 freezer doors are all butter lol
Great job on organizing your freezer space. I keep track of our freezer inventory in a binder but love the idea of having a dry erase board on the door. I also love the idea of getting an extra shelf for flash freezing. Never thought of that. Genius!!! ❤
Thanks! I was excited when I thought about it as we were shopping and hoping the one we settled on would let it work. We couldn't find ANY in stock that wouldn't take a long time to arrive, so we bought the largest we could actually get, and I was excited to see that I could make it work!
@@ThePurposefulPantry oooo, I hope mine is big enough, just 2 of us. I have limited space and didn’t want to go too big for energy usage. In the video it looked like size I ordered, but pics can be deceiving. And yes, have to wait 2 mos and 1 more to go-sigh.😊
I marvel at how quickly you speak! It is far faster than I am able to absorb what you are saying!
Sorry - it's how I speak. You can always slow the video down a little if you need to.
Congrats! We purchased a new upright freezer that is designed to handle the heat of a garage which we really need in the Texas heat.
We couldn't find one that could be delivered in a reasonable time in this size! So hubby is going to build an insulated shell for this one - it may not be pretty, but it will be functional. We were just out of time and things had to move quickly for us with other things happening in our home right now.
I have chest freezer in garage and upright freezer in the "shop". I love having both. I keep the bulk of things in the upright.
Investing in an upright freezer is one the best things we ever did. We use baskets that have holes in them, vertically store vacuum sealed foods. Butter in door, meat in baskets, bottom for hams, turkeys and extras. One basket had chicken etc. Dated and filed with newest in the back. This has really saved money and less food. waste. Best system we ever used. Been doing this for about a year. Surprised freezers din't come with baskets to help people with organization.
Congratulations Darci!!
Thanks! I've been waiting a loooong time :D
Congratulations 🎉 I love my upright freezer😊 Don’t forget you can freeze loaf bread. We buy a lot of bread when our favorite goes on sale and freeze it. We also have several 1/2 gallons of milk. I have lots of precooked hamburger that I vacuum sealed, raw sealed pork chops, hamburger and hamburger patties. Flour tortillas freeze and vacuum seal well too!
Yep! And now that I can see things again - and can properly organize and freeze, we'll be pulling out the vacuum sealer more for the things that are staying. The zip lock bags were for things in the front freezer that we moved through more and had no space for in the big one. But I'm hoping a large part of the meat will be canned over the winter.
I have 2 chest freezers and 2 upright I love them all the inventory on the door is a great idea I love the idea of knowing what I have I try to keep each meat in separate freezers por beef and chicken I have a small chest for hamburger only it seems to work for me
I do a freezer and pantry inventory which I keep in my calendar because I have my meal plan on one side and my actual calendar on the other side. I put it in a sheet protector so I put the paper in the middle so I can pull it out to do my meal plan. I would hate to have it on the freezer because it isn’t where I need the information but everyone does things a little differently. I update mine at the end of the month and then use all of that to plan the next months meal plan. It would be super easy to put a board on the fridge or mark it there but it wouldn’t help me as much.
Just a note for those in cold climates. Make sure the brand of freezer you have has a condensor that won't go bad if you put it in an unheated porch or garage during the winter. Not all can withstand freezing temperatures if that area goes before freezing.
Our Home Depot has them labeled as "Garage Ready"
Some refrigerators and freezers are designed to work in cold environments, they have heaters to keep the oil in the compressors at a nice temperature so when it kicks on, it doesn't stress to motors trying to push around cold oil.
Looks great! I love the bins with the labels, I need to do that because mine is out of control! For inventory I purchased some large soft magnetic whiteboards that just stick right on the fridge & have done lines to match each shelf then the contents of each shelf. Once I do the bins like yours, it will be (top to bottom)
eg: Shelf 1) Lamb: 1x 500g lamb mince, 2x lamb steaks etc etc
Shelf 2) Fruit bin: 1x 500g raspberries etc
Shelf 3) Pastry bin: 2x shortcrust pastry etc
I think that will work. I actually have a separate large fridge & freezer indoors & the same large set both the same size as your freezer (we call them pigeon pairs in Australia) outside on the covered verandah as I do a lot of cooking & raw feed my 2 dogs. So outside is excess stuff for canning, dehydrating & bulk meat/veggie purchases etc & dog food ingredients & inside is like yours; what we’re working through for the next week or so. There’s only two of us but I like to buy in bulk!
I have tried a lot of manual organization tools but recently switched to an app. It is so fabulous! It is called Food Checklist. I am tracking both of my freezers and my prepper pantry. You check things in and out and you can even categorize and put in expiration dates. You can even scan the UPC symbol on prepared foods for quick check in and check out. I love it!
Where did you get the app?
@@vonlucy in the Play store on my phone.
@@FrazzledMomNFriends I looked it up in the play store but couldn't find one with that exact name. I just went through google on my computer and found it. Thanks.
@@vonlucy sorry I didn't see your question before now. I had to look it up "Food List Tracking & Shopping" by MeadowLane Media. Glad you found it!
On m’y stand freezer I got a magnetic white board With the pen attached I put on the door and when something goes in I write it down and wipe it off when it comes out. If I have like five packages of ground beef,I will write ground beef and put five little ticks beside it and when one comes out, I erase a tick mark.
Congratulations, Darcy...we bought this exact model freezer last summer and have really loved it. Thank you for linking the bins, I'd like to be able to stack the butter that way. I thought I'd put them in the door but ended up putting lunch meats and smaller packages of meats so they could be found easily. One warning: don't wear flip flops when you are opening it. Sometimes it really sucks in/seals hard and you have to yank to get the door open. I did that 9/02 and ended up getting my big toenail completely ripped off. Wear shoes! :) Years ago I used a magnetic dry-erase board for inventory but discontinued it because nobody but me would scratch off 'withdrawals'.
YIKES! yes, we've noticed how hard it is to open - you almost need 2 hands which is hard when your arms are full of food to put in!
Glad for you. I had 2 upright freezers. One just died and to replace would have been out of my budget. I ended up getting a chest. Hope the other one does not die.
I'm glad you got a nice up right freezer I'm sure you will love it. They make magnetic white boards you can mark on and erase. I think you will save enough money on less food spoilage to it to pay for your freezer initial cost.
I didn't really have much spoilage in the chest freezer - it was the fact that it was old, and my back just doesn't love lugging stuff out of it any longer. But I'm loving this thing a lot - especially the organization. It's been fab!
Hello Darcy My name is Carla Jo nice to meet you , just subbed to your channel. I have a chest freezer . I wish I had one of those stand up freezers that is so cool!
Dry erase board, taped on the outside. Works like magic !!
But this is already smooth - no need to buy something extra for me! :D