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Congratulations On Your Purchase of a Frigidaire Chest Freezer

Say hello to convenience and goodbye to your food!

Bev Potter
3 min readSep 17, 2023

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Photo by Dev Benjamin on Unsplash

Congratulations on your purchase of a Frigidaire chest freezer! Families dreamed about owning this beauty in the 1950s.

Now it just means you can’t afford a self-defrosting upright freezer, but you still need someplace to store 18 Lean Cuisines, a tub of generic ice cream, and a package of chicken thighs that you will never, ever use.

Thanks to Frigidaire’s state-of-the-art technology, whichever food item you’re looking for will always be on the bottom!

And while you unpack the entire freezer looking for the frozen fish sticks your kid is having a meltdown about upstairs (Surprise! You don’t have any!), say hello to that ham bone you were going to use to make soup.

Greet each other like the long-lost friends that you are, because you haven’t seen this ham bone since 2018. When’s the last time you even made soup from scratch?

That’s right. Never.

But you still put in the effort to pop that leftover ham bone into a Ziplock baggie and chuck it into the chest freezer, which is the food equivalent of staying in a bad marriage.

You can’t let the…

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Bev Potter
Bev Potter

Written by Bev Potter

Legal secretary by day, insomniac by night. Ally. BA, MA. Humor, pop culture, and things that make you think. My weekly-ish newsletter is bevpotter.substack.com