License to Chill?

Thriftiness is a dish best served cold.

“Deepfreeze Freezer” by dok1 is licensed under CC BY 2.0

I recently read this really interesting New York Times story about families with multiple refrigerators and freezers, and what that fact can say about socioeconomic class, and even race and ethnicity. That got me thinking about my own family’s fridge/freezer habits.

Growing up, our family had one freezer-fridge combo in the kitchen and then a big standing freezer in…