Prior to becoming a Stay-at-home Dad, I was pretty much like any other cave dwelling guy on the planet – I loved power tools and gadgets.
I still do, but something alarming is happening to me.
Instead of drooling over the latest Hammer Drill or Cordless Bumfungler, I find myself coveting…
Chest Freezers!
CHEST FREEZERS?!
I mean, C’MON! What’s wrong with me? I used to be a man!
Now I’m all flouncy with feather dusters and coasters.
Before you know it I’ll be using lip balm and plucking my eyebrows.
A Chest Freezer?
I need to go to the pub and drink beer with men, and talk man stuff before it’s too late.
Have a great weekend!
Dave
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I know what the appeal is of chest freezers.
The clue is in the first word.
You’re all man Dave, have no fear!
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Cordless bumfungler – love it!
Pull yourself together man – scratch your bottom, cough and mutter about how many melons to the pound.
On the chest freezer front … they do make a rather pleasing sound when they are opened and closed. Ahem.
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No, no, no, no! Any woman will tell you that whatever you want to find in a chest freezer will always be at the bottom. The chest freezer rearranges your stuff the second you close the door! Go with an upright, unless you’re prepared to mark everything with a sharpie in big letters, and even then! Don’t do it!
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Tara
LOL
Give a dog a bad name.
My interest in chest freezers is purely to make me a better, more efficient housewife and to maximize the time I have available for other interests like .. art.
Laura
LMAO @ melons to the pound. Although I think the politically correct version is: melons to the kilo. I wouldn’t want to inadvertently offend anyone with my mutterings!
It’s so long since I’ve seen a chest freezer I’ve forgotten the sound they make. I must investigate this.
Betsy
I love the idea that the chest freezer is some kind of malevolent entity capable of moving stuff about.
I thought chest freezer only because I want to keep the thing in the shed and there’s not enough headroom. I can see that I might just create another problem for myself to procrastinate over with a chest freezer. How much food will I waste through never getting to the bottom of it?
Dave, Dave, Dave- freezers are about FOOD. Men like food – last I heard. And if you’re like my brother – it stores what he’s hunted and fished. He saves the $ he would have spent on meat and fish and uses it toward his boat or equipment for his other insane outdoor adventures. So you’ll have to try again to tell us you have feminine impulses. :p (Now it you tell us you’re shopping for a freezer in something pink and frilly – we might wonder.)
They do make some fairly short upright freezers.
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Avlor,
You know, you’re right. It could be a manly thing after all. I just need to kill me some critter with the intention of eating it and I’ll be a man again. Wooo hoo. Now, where’s my catapult?
The stubby freezer might do it. But then how am I going to fit the bigger critters in?
Avlor,
You know, you’re right. It could be a manly thing after all. I just need to kill me some critter with the intention of eating it and I’ll be a man again. Wooo hoo. Now, where’s my catapult?
Dave, I think the term you are looking for is trebuchet. Yes, that is it. Where is my trebuchet, with big manly, flaming balls of molten rock. Go kill yourself a squirrel or two with one of those my friend and you are indeed a manly man.
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Nice apron Dave – although I suggest you NOT wear that to the pub with the guys!! But hey, that’s just me…
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Sal
LMFAO
But how the hell do expect me to carry one of those around in my backpack? Let alone the balls of molten rock??
Lance
That’s not the problem. It’s when I suddenly whip out a pot of hand-cream that they give me sideways looks.
@Dave: Why do you think men rave on about the need for having a trailer? Or a big truck for that matter? I mean a big truck WITH a trailer is just the end all – be all to man-hood. Wait a minute. I don’t have a big truck or a trailer. Not even a little truck. Why does my masculinity all of a sudden feel non-existant. BRB, I need to go to the bathroom for a second…
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Sal
LMAO – Just don’t stay in there too long or people will start to talk.
Dave said – “Wooo hoo. Now, where’s my catapult?”
A ballista might be just as fun and you may have a little tiny bit of something left from your hunted squirrel that’s not squashed into the ground.
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Avlor
You and Sal are really making me work Google over today. I thought Sal was talking about a type face and I thought you were talking about someone who does ballet. LOL
Hey Lance…you are the one wearing pink in a previous post. I had to put that one in. You can get me back later.
Dave,
I have to hand it to you! You are a wonderful Dad that is making the best of a situation. You are happy and loving it.
I have to agree with Betsy that the chest freezer is not a good one. I inherited one from someone that said it was the greatest. First clue not to take it. I use it but things do get lost in the bottom. I am very unorganized but to stop wasting money I now make a little list of what is in the dark deep freezer. Before the big dig I at least know what I am looking for. Hey, you can be manly and use big ugly tape to mount your list to the freezer. That will work.
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drink a pint for me… I’m having a Juice Box and watching the Home Shopping Network. [sigh]
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drink a pint for me… I’m having a Juice Box and watching the Home Shopping Network. [sigh]
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Hey Cricket — I should have suspected that one would come back to get me. Hey, maybe I can join Dave and the guys at the pub – me in pink, Dave and his hand cream (and apron) – whoa – scary thoughts!! And…now…I’m off to plot how I can get you back Tammy!!!
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Cricket
Thank you. I really am trying to make the best of it. I know which side my bread is buttered and I don’t want to give up this wonderful way of life – as tough as it sometimes is.
As far as the chest freezer is concerned… I wanted to install some sort of baskets or trays so I can organise it a bit better. The list is a great idea and something I intended to do. I was going to get a nice clipboard with paper template I was going to knock up on the computer. But now I want to go with the paper taped to the lid. Far more manly!!
CK
Seeing as how you asked me twice I feel compelled to drink two pints for you.
Lance
Is this the dress with the lipstick and tiara? Or is it another dress? Hahahaha
I could really murder a pint down the pub with you guys – as long as we’re wearing man clothes!!!
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Dave
If don’t use lipbalm and rarely pluck my eyebrows. Do you think that means I am a…MAN???!!
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Who better to make the “chest” comment than Miss E. (Tara)
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aconfusedtakethatan
Hmm? I don’t think so. Depends really. How frilly is your underwear? Don’t worry I’m not being pervy. I’m going to ask Turf Dad the same question.
Turf Dad
Underwear? Frilly?
(Don’t answer that. I only asked to dra attention away from me being pervy)
And it was ALWAYS going to be Mrs Sticky Fingers Tara (E).
Underwear? Just the pair you sent me buddy.
Poor Tara (E), some day she may be more like Turf Dad (C).
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I’m a little nervous about your obsession with Chest Freezers! As long as you aren’t pricing out knives, duct tape, rope, and chloroform too? ~nervous laugh~ Did you say your alias was Norman Bates. ~blood curdling scream~ Back to the boobs lad! Channel your inner man and if all else fails repeat after me “Nigella Lawson naked, Nigella Lawson naked…” LOL
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Ohhh now I know what you’re talking about it’s one of those gadgets used to freeze a pair of boobs and keep them at their perkiest. Sort of like a pause button for boobs..lol See I’ll turn it into a manly object yet. ~Grin~
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Turf Dad
Well, they were my Grandma’s and she wants them back. Preferably in the state the were sent to you – stainless.
Kirst
You misheard me. I said I wanted to keep my niBBles in there, although after thinking about Nigella Lawson naked I might have to use the freezer to cool myself down rather than the food.
Now look. You’ve got nothing to worry about. You just go and have a nice relaxing shower while I admire your kitchen knives.
All the best,
Norman.
LMAO!!!!! ~runs screaming~
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Now, I saw a bit on MSN news about an item called “mantyhose” and how the most manly of men are wearing’em these days, and coincidentally, my mom always said that if you freeze your hose they are less likely to get runners. So, well, another use for that chest freezer. Plus you’ll have the sleekest legs at the pub and the control top will smooth out all those pints….
Mrs. C
and LMAO
Welcome!
I’ve got to see some of these Mantyhose. Maybe I can wear them for a week and then post a review?
As for freezing hose I’m not sure I could go that far in the name of fashion, but then the guys at the pub will want to see my legs at their best
No worries. It’s the word ‘chest’ you are fixated on. You’re all man, Dave. All man!
Panther
LOL. I can’t deny it. I really am fixated.
Come and get me Lance! I am not in hiding. Let me know which Pub you will be in. I will come in with a camera. Live shots for free.
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