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Juice Containers to Fill Empty Freezer Space


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A full cranberry juice container.We drink cranberry juice. To fill in the empty spaces and build up the bottom of our chest freezer, I freeze water in the 64 ounce cranberry juice containers. They lay flat and fit perfectly between the dividers. This helps to keep the freezer full.

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When the summer garden starts coming in, I remove the ice containers as needed. When defrosting the freezer, they are not as heavy and hard to handle as the gallon milk jugs I was using.

These containers of ice also work well in the cooler when we are traveling.

Recycled cranberry juice containers with water frozen and filling the back of a freezer.
 
A basket full of frozen juice containers filled with water.
 

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May 20, 20181 found this helpful

I thought *I* was the only one who did this! It's also a really good idea, for those inopportune times the power goes out- it's not often, but boy when it DOES happen, those ice jugs come in handy. I've also frozen smaller Coke-sized bottles for small ice needs, as in for an injury like a sprained ankle, or to cool off something in a larger tub the ice bottles come in handy.

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Not sure if this is in the article by the OP or not, as I haven't read it all yet- but you definitely want to under-fill the jugs, as when the ice forms it expands quite a bit. I "squish" the bottles down a bit, then fill them up- when the ice has formed completely, the bottle swells to it's full expansion. Thanks for posting- this is such a great idea.

 

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May 22, 20180 found this helpful

You are right about not filling the bottle to the top. Ice does expand. Thank you for adding that comment. I also have some Gatorade bottles of ice in the freezer and as you said, these smaller frozen containers do come in handy.

 

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September 9, 20220 found this helpful

What empty freezer space?? :)
Marg from England.

 

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