I shall give a 3 piece buying guide that has one main point - helping you to figure out what you need. It's not related to buying, not yet, because you need to know what you are looking for first and what kind of options you have concerning upright freezers.

The main concerns you probably have when deciding for a new upright freezer are size, features and the power it consumes. We will find out more about latter two in other posts, lets talk about the size first.

There are lots of different sizes to choose from and you will find upright freezers with 1.3 cubic feet as a starting point and you will also find a 6.2 cubic feet freezer that will satisfy all requirements. Now, depending on what you need and what amounts of food and drink you need to store, you will pick your freezer.

What happens usually is that people buy an upright freezer and use it only up to 50% of its possibilities. The cause of this is that people hope they will find some great offer and will need to store great amount of food all at once. But they usually do not use they experience and base their decision on a "what might happen" situation. Picking a larger upright freezer is not such a sin, but why waste money on more expensive product that will suck your electricity when you don't actually need it? Think about how much food you DO spend.

Besides the miscalculated quantity, people forget that they can't keep the food in an upright freezer for eternity. There is a period of 6 weeks that you should pay attention to and consume all the food in that time limit. After the 6th week, food becomes dehydrated and the nutritional value drops. Remember those ice crystals you notice on your meat or on ice cream? That is dehydration on work and it makes you throw away the food you've payed for. Calculate those 6 weeks along with the consumption, and you will get closer to what size of upright freezer you need.

Combining the food requirements and the 6 week period you can get to the size you need for a freezer. This should be two main points of your calculation. Mix them with the food consumption of your household and you will be one step closer to decide what upright freezer size you want.