{"id":1019,"date":"2013-12-29T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T00:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2013-12-29T20:28:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T00:28:12","slug":"increasing-a-standup-freezers-usable-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/2013\/12\/increasing-a-standup-freezers-usable-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing A Standup Freezer&#8217;s Usable Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like my stand up freezer in general, but I have always felt like its shelves were inefficient.  Because the contents of the freezer (especially meat) often don&#8217;t stack well, it feels like only about half of the shelf&#8217;s storage area is usable.  Adding baskets is the obvious choice, but every time I look for baskets I find them to be over-priced and inefficient (the sides are usually sloped, and they are never the exact right size).  This fall, while surfing for a basket solution again, I had an epiphany.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIf I could fence in the front of the shelf, it would act as if it were a perfectly-sized basket (a non-removable basket, it&#8217;s true, but I&#8217;m ok with that).  I headed to a local Lowes and found some reasonably priced wire shelving that I could cut down and some zip ties.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1022\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000529.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1022\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000529-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The problem freezer with, hopefully, the solution.\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000529-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000529-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000529.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The problem freezer with, hopefully, the solution.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1023\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000530.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1023\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000530-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"I used an angle grinder to cut the shelving down into the correct size to fit between the two middle gaps.\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000530-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000530-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000530-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000530.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I used an angle grinder to cut the shelving down into the correct size to fit between the two middle gaps.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1024\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000536.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1024\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000536-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The first of the two sections installed.  I used wire ties to quickly (and reversibly) attache the section.\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000536-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000536-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000536.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first of the two sections installed.  I used wire ties to quickly (and reversibly) attache the section.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1025\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000567.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1025\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000567-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Both sections installed, and with this year&#039;s meat.\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000567-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000567-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/P1000567.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both sections installed, and with this year&#8217;s meat.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The whole project took an afternoon (including the trip to Lowes) and cost around $20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like my stand up freezer in general, but I have always felt like its shelves were inefficient. Because the contents of the freezer (especially meat) often don&#8217;t stack well, it feels like only about half of the shelf&#8217;s storage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/2013\/12\/increasing-a-standup-freezers-usable-storage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,20],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}