[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

My parents bought a Sears Cold Spot deep freeze around 1963. It ran constantly and problem-free until last year, when my father shut it down because he no longer had a use for it.

[fatnotlazy]

My parents’ deep freezer was purchased from Sears in 1958. A mammoth chest freezer. Poor Mom was short. She couldn't reach the bottom. She would get my taller brother to pull out anything toward the bottom.

It's still running. Only downside to it is that it isn't frost free. Has to be defrosted periodically. And I'm sure the enviro-whackos would be displeased. It's an energy guzzler. But it keeps everything frozen.

Today you can't buy a freezer that big. And with all that digital and energy saving carp, new freezers (and appliances in general) don't last more than 5 years. For all the money we spend on these appliances, we get garbage.

[Rodamala]

3 years ago I was living with a friend on his great aunts farm. AujtbAida had bought a similar vintage Cold Spot chest freezer and I think I was the first person to defrost it since his aunt died in the late 1990s. It was a bit of an energy hog as it sat in an unventilated lean-to off the house and that lean-to had a huge solar load in the summer.