What's the oldest (or strangest), thing you have in your freezer?

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I have 5 parakeets (yes, they were dead before I put them in there), sitting on ice in various containers, foil, freezer bags (and no, I'm not making this up).

The oldest one has been in there for about 7 years, and the most recent one about 4 years.

I took them with me on one apartment to apartment move.

Other than that, there's some frozen meat sauce that's been in the freezer for about a year or so.

[donheld]

1. Why?

Are you saving the birds for something special?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. and I thought my two years of frozen corn

and five years of frozen ice in little milk cartons.

[absolutezero]

3. WTF

:wtf:

[Fiona]

4. my grandfather

he was old and strange.

[davsand]

5. I thought my 8 year old magic mushrooms might win--but not hardly!

I'm assuming you are doing the cryo thing for the birdies until you can bury them someplace nice???


Laura

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20. That had been the original plan.

Well.... sort of. Then I got lazy and procrastinated about it too long.

If you want the honest to Gods truth, the first one that croaked I wanted to flush down the toilet or dump in the trash, but the ex-GF talked me out of it. So, I stuck the fucker in the freezer until I could get around to burying it. I got lazy about it and in the meantime other keets that I owned met their maker and passed away to that big roosting box in the sky.

[fortyfeetunder]

50. Don't feel bad, I have one too

My bird died while I was on a biz trip a couple of years ago. Spouse put it in deep freezer. And that time of year, I couldn't really get out and dig...and two years went by. I have time now....

[Sporadicus]

6. Now I Don't Feel So Bad for Having a 3-Year-Old Bag of Mustard Greens

in my freezer, considering that I could easily pick new ones each spring.

[Nicole]

7. I think you win

Frozen parakeets is definitely strange! :scared:

[Nicole]

8. I have a bouquet of roses

that I am experimenting with. Want to see if they will freeze dry at home & look as good as the commercial ones.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. I have no idea.

There's stuff in there that I don't know what it is any more.

[RoeBear]

10. Planning a very small

Christmas dinner?

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12. Actually...

they are just the right size for a taco shell or burrito.

[RoeBear]

18. Remind me not to

stop by for Mexican food night at your house.

[Ladyhawk]

48. You still haven't told us why you have frozen budgies.

I'd kind of like to know.

[madison2000]

11. frozen peas for my migraines

There's nothing like a bag of frozen vegetables to lay your aching head in when you have a migraine. Any kind will do, but the smaller pieces will conform to your head better.

They can be reused several times, though never eaten of course. :headbang:

[NightTrain]

13. If I told you that, the lurking RWers would call Homeland Security on me.

Sorry!

[iconoclastic cat]

14. A ball of foil containing the ghosts of at least two Bee Gees.

[NightTrain]

17. For god's sake, don't let them out!

:scared:

[flamingyouth]

15. Poi

Maybe not that odd. Certainly not as unusual as seven-year-old frozen parakeets. :D

[AlCzervik]

16. You don't have a girly suit made out of girls in there too do you?

[iconoclastic cat]

19. It puts the lotion in the basket.

[AlCzervik]

22. It puts it's lotion in it's skin

[TXlib]

59. Or else it gets the hose again.

Hee hee!

KCDem and I will sometimes phrase requests to each other in this manner, when the other doesn't initially respond.

[Boswells_Johnson]

21. My Grandmother. She got too lippy. She hasn't been in there long,

but she's real old.

[SarahB]

23. Frozen breast milk.

It's been there over 3 years now. I'm not ready to give up the last vestiges of my lactating years. :(

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28. I think we should put my frozen keets...

and your breast milk up for bid on EBay and challenge each other for the highest bid.

Matter of fact... I foresee a DU poll! B-)

[SarahB]

32. With all the weirdos around here,

I suspect my breast milk would annihilate your keets. :D

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42. Wanna trade?

:9

[Modem Butterfly]

38. I knew a woman who kept her last placenta in the freezer

She would bring it out at parties if people asked (and someone always did). She and her husband were saving it to plant a tree with when their daughter got her first period.

Damn. I've known some strange people.

[SarahB]

39. Not so weird.

I tried to have a homebirth with my last baby and I was going to save the placenta and plant it under a tree (sort of an Earthy-birthy kind of tradition). Except I ended up with a 3 day labor, cesarean, a week long spinal headache, and my son had some temporary breathing complications that needed to be taken care of. By the time all that ensued, the placenta situation just didn't matter so much.

[Modem Butterfly]

46. It's not so much the placenta...

...which has a certain feminist appeal (although I admit that it makes me feel a bit squeamish). What I found to be weird was the showing it off at parties. Repeatedly. Ech.

[LeftyMom]

53. I can't imagine why someone'd want to show it around

it just looks like liver, but without the funny smell.

That lady needs a coffee table book or something.

[rug]

my son's pet hot dog

[rug]

24. my son's pet hot dog

[rug]

25. my son's pet hot dog

[guitar man]

26. A whole salmon

and it's damn near as big as Moby Dick. I was going to smoke it over the summer outdoors in the smoker, but I got extremely busy and didn't get around to it. I hope it is still good when the weather warms a bit so I can smoke it up

[sbj405]

27. Three kongs loaded with peanut butter for the dog

He's got separation anxiety. So every time I leave he gets a Kong frozen with peanut butter. It distracts him long enough for me to get out the door. :-)

That still doesn't beat the frozen parakeets. ;-)

[yellowdogintexas]

29. some very old hailstones that my daughter wanted to keep

for some reason.

some year old Hatch chilies

which still doesn't top the parakeets

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

30. A Trout... No, not Kilgore. But it has eyes.

[BiggJawn]

31. Nori snacks and 5-y-o bacon.

The Nori keeps better in the freezer ("Seasoned Sea Vegetable" is what the label says, but it's just little sheets of Nori with soy sauce)

The Bacon, I just forgot it and now I don't eat bacon so it's just sitting in there...

[Oddly Stevenson]

33. Time Magazine Cover

*- "Four More Years"

It's not for preservation, it's "freezer voodoo."

Don't laugh, it got the Carolina Panthers to the Super Bowl last year.

In fact, I'm going to add the "Man of the Year" cover shortly (I had a subscription, which has since been cancelled.) It's only a matter of time.......

[AccessGranted]

34. Old Turkey With Freezer Burn

I had some turkey leftover from Thankgsgiving, so I put it in a food storage bag. It is now grey, but I just can't bring myself to throw it out.

[Taverner]

35. I have a friend who has a jar of urine from 1989 in his fridge

You see, he works for the government and random drugs tests being what they are, he has this stored in his fridge at work.

I have no idea how he plans to warm it up in time, but I'm sure he does

[LeftyMom]

54. Bottle warmer?

That would probably get the temp close to body temp, certainly a better idea than the microwave unless he wants to make to office smell like an alley.

[the Princess]

36. Ground Ostrich Meat

I hav eno intention of eating it - I have no idea why it's still there.

[Chalco]

37. The flowers from the top of my wedding cake--15 years

[Z_I_Peevey]

40. Five year old blackberries

and a bag of horseradish root.

If there is somebody out there with something that tops frozen parakeets...well I just can't imagine.

[Midlodemocrat]

41. Year old turkey

that I got for free at the grocery store last Christmas Eve. I stuck it in the freezer and forgot about it until two days ago.

[katinmn]

43. a plastic brain mold for jell-o

not sure why the mold is chilling in the freezer. My daughter must have a plan for it.

[ernstbass]

44. That would require major excavation work

[bikebloke]

45. Frozen rags

A couple years ago, I ended some impromptu ice ballet with a freak fall. My whole leg swelled up (later it turned such a glorious black & blue from top to bottom I was tempted to frame it and hang it on the wall). A friend suggested wetting rags, then freezing them for make shift ice pads. I've left them in case I decide on an encore.

[Ladyhawk]

47. I have various sizes of frozen mice.

You know what they're for. :)

[Ladyhawk]

49. C'mon...my frozen mice could keep the parakeets company.

I refuse to be a thread-killer.

[Peter Frank]

51. I was divorced for three years before I...

...cerimonailly chucked an 11 year old piece of frozen wedding cake into the dumpster.

One day I just looked at the foil wrapped & glad bagged artifact that was cluttering up my freezer space and asked the obvious question, "Why (is it still there)?"

My only regret is that I didn't unwrap it before throwing it out.

[Kool Kitty]

52. A turtle.

Hector died last year. I put him in the freezer because I couldn't bury him at that time. Now I am used to him being there. (I know that sounds so nuts.) One of these days I will figure out just the right place to bury him, but until that time comes, he will continue to rest right behind the ice cube trays. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who keeps the dead pets in the freezer.

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58. Be careful when you clean out the freezer.

Two of the birds are in Tupperware containers (I like to think of them as "keet coffins"). One keet is wrapped in aluminum foil and I accidentally tossed him in the garbage when I was disposing of old left overs.

I realized it a few hours later and fished him out of the barrel then returned him back among the flock and frozen TV dinners.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

55. "The Devil And Daniel Webster"

A first edition signed by Stephen Vincent Benet. It had a really musty old bookstore scent on it, so I stuck it in the freezer.

About three years ago.

Maybe I should take it out now?

[BensMom]

56. A Paint brush

I read somewhere if you are painting and just can't find the time to properly clean up that paint brush you can just freeze it and it will be ready to go the next day. This works great for big projects that go on for days and days.

Now I keep a 2 inch brush in the freezer ready to go whenever I get out the gallon of antique white.

[Solly Mack]

57. that's just fowl

[TXlib]

60. Two stool samples, a semen specimen, and a booger collection.

[gizmo1979]

61. A lime popsicle from 1993

[tk2kewl]

62. Bait

[fluffernutter]

63. reindeer sausage.

ick

[WMliberal]

64. Blackfin tuna, king mackerel, and mahi mahi I caught about two months ago.

Huge steaks of each.

[cestpaspossible]

65. Al Capone's finger

[mr_hat]

66. 13-year-old deer burger. Gift from a hunter.

[NoPasaran]

67. They're not dead, they're pining for the fjords!

I'm surprised no one's said this yet.

Me, I've got some deer sausage a neighbor gave me two or three years ago. Eat Bambi? I don't think so.