Senselessly Random: My New Refrigerator.

Last week, just a few days after returning from our vacation, I embarked on a frig conversion that I had been wanting to do for years. I turned one of my chest freezers into a refrigerator. My husband and I have been getting frustrated because, no matter what we do. our power bill keeps
getting higher. We've gotten rid of several power users but it doesn't seem to make much difference. While I don't think this will help much either (power company issues) it's a start toward getting things down enough that we can move to solar. Anyway, all this helped finally convince my hubby to do this conversion.

Before we left, I ordered this thermostat. It allows you to keep a warmer temperature in your freezer. It's very easy to use, I just set it, ran the sensor between the lid and body of the freezer and let it hang about 2/3 of the way down into the freezer. I haven't taped it or anything yet. The thermostat itself, I mounted to the wall behind the freezer so it's easier for me to adjust if needed.

The hard part of this project was moving all the stuff around in the kitchen to make room for the chest freezer. Everything had to be scooted about a foot and a half down on the one wall as well as rearranging a few things to make room for the other stuff that was getting booted out of the way to get that foot and a half. I swear that over half of what we own is in the kitchen! But, I did it. The old frig is outside waiting or a new owner, things are moved around and things are in working order. While it's only been a week, it seems to working very well!

This freezer is a bit bigger than what we actually seem to need, but it was already here so it's what I used. It does make it easier to organize stuff I suppose. Here's a pic that kind of shows how stuff is laid out in there. I do want to find another milk crate to use to hold more stuff, but this is working for now.

While researching this and others' experiences, I read that moisture is a problem and you have to towel out the bottom on a regular basis. So far, not a problem. Maybe it's our single digit humidity? While you can see the moisture on the walls, it has not collected on the bottom yet.