Help! Struggling to reach the bottom of new freezer.

I often did out my Mum's freezer when I was staying with her. If you store stuff in bags, you need tall, narrow bags, so you are not piling things on top of each other, and all tops are accessible.

Maybe something like this:

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When I had a chest freezer I bought a couple of wire bike baskets to put in the bottom of the freezer. I could then lift them by the handle.

Carrier bags lasted well then, but it was ten or fifteen years ago, so I don't know if they will still last well.

I also use large supermarket plastic bags in freezer, and keep one basket in bottom which can be lifted out to check contents. My problem is always finding things I know are there. I have a “sort of” system, but it always gets rearranged when looking for something?

make sure any boxes on the bottom of the freezer have something in them.

The cost of cooling empty spaces in a freezer is more expensive than cooling space filled with frozen food.

I don't have any advice but we bought a very tall upright freezer to replace two smaller ones and I can't reach the top two compartments so have to keep a stool handy.

Keep it full so that you don't fall into it!

Not offering any help - have not had chest freezer for many decades - but this thread brought to mind our first freezer -purchased in 1960's. Large and heavy - was a commercial one _hubbie was working for a large chain of fish and chip stores at the time. The only way we could defrost it regularly, was to take everything out, then I would climb into it and then use towels to mop up the water lapping around my ankles.
reasonably easy to do when you are in the 20's!!!!!!

Yes, BlueSapphire - that’s what I was envisaging happening to me!

Thank you all so much for your answers. I’m very encouraged that the long life bags work well so that’s what I’ll do and I also think a grabber hanging up next to the freezer would be worth having too.

I’d never have thought of using upturned boxes to raise the floor of the freezer but think it’s a brilliant idea and something I might well adopt if I think I can afford to lose the space they’ll take up.

I do like this forum.

Yes I use the large supermarket bags as well, and also it makes it easier to know where everything is. I keep all my bread in one, for instance, and veggies in another. I think if I were to fall headfirst into my freezer I would probably end up like one of those bodies that they find frozen from the Ice Age!

I also use plastic bags to keep together like items.
But usually ask my dh to get xxx out of the garage chest freezer.

My mom couldn't reach the bottom of the freezer so I put large plastic boxes in the bottom upside down. So it was raised up and had a level surface to put food on.

I keep a long handled disability grabber stick by my chest freezer, it easily reaches to grab things from the very bottom of the freezer, but l also have used the Sainsbury’s bags for life with the woven handles that work well and keep the batches of bagged soft fruits from our garden tidy and together throughout the winter months. I also have an upright freezer with draws in my utility room for keeping the smaller items in, including a stash of ice creams for the grandchildren when they visit, much cheaper than buying individual ones from the local shop!

Do,you remember Hamster baskets for chest freezers?
What hamsters had o do with freezers always escaped me but they were quite the thing in the 70’s /80’s when we were all getting our first freezers (and possibly our last hamsters) ?

I use my freezer baskets to put groceries in the car boot. Very handy, better than bags.

Serious freezer envy here. We’ve only space for a fridge freezer .

Sorry to say I haven't got an answer, in fact I'm looking at fridges and freezers at the moment, and finding similar problems.
So I will be interested in the replies you receive!

I presume you are discussing a chest freezer?

I've had a few woven polyester type shopping bags in my freezer for over a year and they still look like new. I got freezer baskets with mine but I found them awkward to use so chucked them out.

I used sainsbury supermarket long life bags with the flat bottoms, excellent for dividing contents and for lifting