What does your freezer look like?

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My neighbor, whom I've long suspected is an aspie, won't pile packages in the freezer. I thought it was very weird, what with 4-5 small packages of food all lined up and filling the whole freezer, and him complaining he doesn't have room for more stuff there. Then remembered that some aspies here have mentioned that they don't like foods touching each other on the plate, so maybe some aspies don't like foods touching each other in the freezer either, even if packed?

It's a grey box with a door and it's very very cold inside.

Any more daft things you wish to connect with autism?

I think it is an interesting post. I wish I only had 4 - 5 small packages in my freezer. Mine is stuffed full.

Empty.

I created a habit of using food as a stim when I was a kid and I'll gradually eat everything if it's full (obviously, I got fairly chubby back then and I've worked it off, since).

Small and it slides open and it's at the bottom of the fridge. it's full of ice and the frozen foods has ice on it. Then we have a freezer out in the garage my parents bought and it's shaped like a fridge and it has food in it and still has tons of room. No ice piled up in it nor on the foods.

I store food in the freezer like I store anything else: very haphazardly.

Empty and full of water because I had an OCD moment and unplugged the fridge for fear that the electrical outlet would burn the house down.

Yeah.

I don't like to put too many things in mine because I think that if it gets too full it will not cool efficiently and that will strain the motor and then the fridge will break and I will have to talk to my landlord about a replacement and will then have to wait however long it takes for the landlord to buy me a new one. Or I could go and buy one myself and just charge the landlord for it. hmm. This was about freezer storage, sorry.

My definition of "too full" is maybe a little strict. If the space inside is more than, say, 25% occupied I start to get nervous. This is an OCD thing for me. Reliability of the fridge, that is.

In my freezer right now are 2 tupperware containers: chicken, one near empty packet of perogies that I mean to throw out, two empty boxes of ice cream that also need to be thrown out, 1 ziplock bag of a sausage that I bought but didn't like but also felt wrong about throwing away so put in the freezer, 1 ice cube tray. I don't like throwing out frozen items that are perishable when the weather is warm because they may make the garbage smell before the garbage collection comes around. It's cold now. I should remove those items. I will do that tomorrow.

This would be very much in tune with the rest of my neighbor's personality. Interesting, I wouldn't have thought of that myself.

As to the sausage, be very careful! I had exactly the same thing happen to me, and in the end I had the "great" idea of throwing it to a stray cat that lives outside the building. Since then, 2 years ago, I've become the area's stray cats mommy.

It's not frost-free so it's really over iced and I have no problem with the food packages touching each other, it's just that I struggle to get things in and out with all the iced-upness. I think I don't defrost it regularly as part of my executive dysfunction issues.

Unlike the rest of my life, mine is neatly organized and labeled. I actually have an inventory list on the front of it so I remember what freeze-ahead meals I have in there.

My freezer did not have shelves in it, and I also felt there was not enough room in it. It isn't that I have a "problem" with stacking things on top of one another. It is more that I only "see" the things that I can see and the rest of the stuff in there gets lost. I bought expandable shelves (like the kind you put in your cabinet to rest plates on...they are made out of wire and do not require hard installation) and put them in the freezer and now I can stack things but still clearly see what I have in there. Perhaps getting some kind of shelving system would help your neighbor. Then you can still see all the contents, but you use the vertical space better.

I think I have more things to think about than whether things in the freezer are touching or not.

Not as daft as the ''is liking sweets an Aspie thing?'' thread I found a few weeks ago.

Mine is currently full of organic chicken and wild game, vegetables, fruit and a couple frozen dinners I made for if I'm short on time.

Mine has a severed human head.

But, seriously, the only thing noteworthy about my freezer is it tends to contain food that is past its expiration date. I'm eternally forgetting what I bought.

My freezer is a skeeery place that I avoid going. It is full of frozen foodz, and I can't find any of the foodz I wantz when I go there, so I have to yell for my mommy.

He has two stories in the freezer, and you can see each package very well because he doesn't put one in front of the other or stacked, only lined up, with a space between them. And he says it's full to capacity.

Yesterday, as an emergency measure, in despair because he couldn't get hold of me to remove some of my stuff from his fridge, he stacked two packages one on top of the other. He was distressed. I've been trying in earnest to set him up with some acquaintances of mine (he very much wants a life partner) but they tend to decline because of "unexplainable things" like this one. I wish I could help him in more effective ways... Fortunately those who believe it's stupid to help one another in life are a stupid minority.