My grandparents always had a chest freezer in their home. It was never where you would think it would be though. They had two stand up freezers in their back room, but the chest freezer was always under the back set of stairs. I guess this was because that was the only room they had for it, even though they had a huge house. This type of freezer can take up a lot of space, but that is because it holds a lot of stuff. They are quite heavy too, and perhaps this is why they are not as popular as they once were.

My grandparents were farmers, so this explains the chest freezer and the two upright ones. They were diary farmers, but they would butcher a cow on occasion. When they did this they needed somewhere to keep the meat. They kept a lot of stuff in those freezers, and if we ever needed anything we could always go lift the huge lid of the chest freezer to get what we needed. When my single mother was low on cash, she knew she could go get what she needed to keep us fed. This didn’t happen often, but it was there if we needed it.