We’ve always planned that when we move, we would not take our old freezers but we’d buy new ones at the new location. One of ours is about 14 years old, one is about 9 years old. We have a third that was a scratch and dent model that’s about 6 years old and has never worked right despite having been worked on several times. We should have sent that one back but we didn’t.
Now . . it’s time to move and freezers are very hard to find. In fact, they’ve been impossible for me to find.
There’s an appliance store in Joplin that I’ve been calling and they told me several months ago that they suggested I order the freezer and it would be in sometime in September. Home Depot told me they should have some in the Fall.
Today I called both the appliance store and Home Depot. The appliance store said they’ve given up giving estimated dates. I asked . . those who ordered and paid for the freezers several months ago, are they getting them in the time frame you had anticipated? No! That’s what I was afraid of and that’s why I didn’t order one. If I’m going to have to move our current freezers, I probably don’t even need a new one!
Home Depot said basically . . your guess is as good as ours when it comes to when we might get them. One of them told me they weren’t very hopeful they’d have freezers before the end of the year.
How crazy is that??
So, my plan is to get one freezer empty . . in what . . three weeks?? We’ll move that one on the first trip, then work on emptying a second freezer and move that on the next trip. The third freezer . . it’s not making the trip so we can keep it here and use it when we come back and forth for a while.
pam dudgeon says
amazing! Like you, I would have never thought of freezers as being a scarce commodity.
Best wishes on your move, I think it’s marvelous!
Judy Laquidara says
It’s all so weird. When I was there, they had tons of fridges. It seems to me that if they can have lots of fridges, they should be able to make freezere but what do I know?
Linda in NE says
A hardware store in a town about 45 minutes from here finally got in the freezers they ordered six months ago. If they hadn’t already been pre-sold I bet they didn’t last long once that announcement came out on FB. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that ours keep working. The smallest one that sits near the kitchen is 25 years old. We did have one that lasted over 40 years before it quit, so I remain hopeful. I still haven’t gotten the canning lids I ordered from Lehman’s several months back.
Judy Laquidara says
I was wondering about your canning lids. That’s crazy. Our oldest freezer has been moved four times and I think that’s hard on them. The other one that we’re taking, we bought it here so it hasn’t been moved much so hopefully it will last for another few years.
Pandy Lolos says
We are in Arizona and did order a small upright freezer in April through Lowes. Yes we had to pay in advance for delivery in June. It did arrive in June actually a couple days before the estimated time when we purchased it. Just FYI that the system did work for us.
Judy Laquidara says
I think (but I could be wrong) that fridges are much easier to get than freezers, at least in MO, which is the only place I’ve checked. I would imagine that whatever is happening in MO is happening all across the country. A friend in MO went into Home Depot and bought a fridge maybe in June and had it delivered the next day. When we were there in early August, they had lots of fridges on the floor and said we could buy them and have them delivered within a day or so.
Tee says
I have an apartment sized refrigerator in my kitchen where my big fridge should sit. No fridges near us to buy and several places are not even taking orders any more.
I was told, not sure if it is the truth, that you should turn off the freezer and warm it up before moving it, so the sides do not shatter. Just FYI.
Judy Laquidara says
The movers always made us clean them out and turn them off a week before moving it so all the water would drain out and it would be dry so that’s what we’ll do this time too. I never heard about the shattering but it may well be true.
Nelle Coursey says
Sounds like a plan. You might want to donate it to one of the homeless places on Avenue D. I bet they would take it from you and you can deduct that from your taxes. There is an office in the old Avenue D Baptist Church. It is next to the little houses they have built.
Judy Laquidara says
It doesn’t work well enough to give away. It’s really in bad shape.
Rebecca says
I think freezers are an add-on, and people at the beginning of the pandemic bought them so they could stock them and be less dependent on what was seeming like an unreliable food chain!
The refrigerators, on the other hand, are something (almost) everybody already has. I’m not sure they’re so much making more of them as what you are seeing is what was already in the supply chain (even partially built).