Have enough to be useful, but don’t overfill with these baskets because you will always have to remove one or two to see below (ideally you will only have one or two that you can push left and right depending on what you need to grab below as well). I LOVE using sliding baskets in a chest freezer, and they usually come with a couple already there, because these can house the items that are used the most frequently (remember that you want to make things as easy as possible for your day to day life in everything you organise). The cheap and easy solution – cardboard boxes can be found that fit the space – and work really well to add compartments to the freezer (just watch if the freezer ever defrosts because the cardboard will break up and be useless though…. Always get stackable ones if possible so you get as much storage capability as possible, and I would suggest handles because this just makes it easier to grab them when needed. Plastic baskets with handles (or without) – can be used to create fantastic storage in your chest freezer. If you’re good at DIY, then creating actual compartments in your freezer could be the answer! Use Plastic Baskets Here are some fantastic ideas that you may want to use (don’t forget to measure your freezer and get the sizes that work for you!): – Use Large Bagsīags for life that you can get from most supermarkets are perfect for this idea – as you can use the height of the freezer to store a lot, and be able to lift it out with ease as they of course have handles! Use Fixed Compartments
Now it’s time to finding a method (or a mix of methods) that will work for you and the way you want to get things organised. With all that planning and decluttering done, now comes the fun part! The answers to all these answers will be very personal to you and your circumstances – so make sure you’re clear on what you want.Īfter all – you want to make life as easy as possible going forward, so a little planning up front will do wonders for your sanity later because you’ll create a solution that really works for you. What containers does it already have, and what others have you already got that fit and that you could use in your freezer (no need to buy extra if you can re-use from around the house).Where will the chest freezer be kept? Is this easy to access & does this make a difference in what you store there?.What food do you want/need to store there? (& how much of each type?).With all this in mind, before you start organising your chest freezer, you want to have a plan.Īfter all, it’s cold in there so you don’t want to be moving things around until you know what you’re doing (am I mentioning the cold aspect of things too much?! – I HATE getting cold hands and my fingers have a tendency to literally turn blue when I get them to cold – not good!). Enables you to rotate food so that nothing gets lost at the bottom.Once filled with frozen food, even the smallest of containers can be quite hard to manoeuvre. You have storage that’s not too heavy for you to move around.(and again – cold fingers aren’t needed……) You can put it back quickly – because there will be a place for it, and it will fit.You can find it quickly without having to take everything out and rummage around for hours (cold fingers are NOT good).
#Cheat freezer how to#
It’s not restrained by very many compartments so you can fit anything and everything inside it – BUT you haven’t got built in organisation and so it can be really hard to know how to use it to its best advantage.It’s big – which means you can store loads in it – BUT you can also lose a lot in it as well.Although a chest freezer is a great asset in any home – the very reasons why it’s so good are the things that can make it a liability if not used properly: –
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