Freezing Food

Ah, the convenience of having a freezer.... what would we do without them. When we got married and pregnant 2 weeks later I tried and tried to convince my husband that we would need an extra freezer (other than the one with the fridge). He didn't believe me. He had been a bachelor fir 34 years, why would HE need a freezer. Now he loves it. I was able to find a FREE freezer off the internet. This family had just bought a house and the previous owners had left behind a freezer. This new family already had one, so they were wanting to give away the old one. It is a standup freezer too !!! IT is great since we don't have to stack things on top of each other. It is probably only 7 cubic feet. But it's enough for our needs right now. When we got it, I got all excited and bought a little magnetic white board from Walmart to put on the outside of the freezer and keep a list of exactly what was in the freezer. My intentions of being organized were well meant, but weren't really successful. Of course you would want to buy a board big enough for the amount of food you will be keeping in the freezer. I bought the small one for our small freezer. See, as it is right now, we have to keep our freezer in the garage, since we are so tight on space in the house. It is a pain in the winter, when it's -30 C and we have to run to the garage to get something, which many times I wasn't even sure WAS in the freezer to start with. As for the list, it was ON the freezer door....in the garage. So here's what I've done. I finally erased the list that was on the board since the first time I had put it up, sad, I never kept it updated. I took inventory of what was in the freezer (I threw out a lot of old freezer burnt food, such a waste, but could have been prevented had I been organized). I took out my trusty little label maker and put categories on the little white board so they won't get erased when I change the list around every week. I wrote down all the inventory left, into the categories. And voila!! I am from now on going to keep the list in the house, on the fridge. I think this is a simple fix which I will hopefully keep up. I can now, from my kitchen, see whether or not I have a certain frozen good in the garage without having to go outside. If it is there, then I can go get it, and once back in the house, I can erase it from the board.