Woman puts chicken bones in freezer until it is garbage day because she doesn't want to waste?

Question

a garbage bag....

Since the chicken bones will stink if she leaves them in her house in the garbage, she puts them in the freezer until it is garbage day pick-up so that she can stuff the garbage bag full and maximize the use of her garbage bag.

Have you ever heard of anyone doing this?

Answer 1

If you do not have daily garbage pick up then I think it is a brilliant idea!!!

Answer 2

I have put potentially stinky stuff in the freezer until garbage day comes. When I did this, I lived alone out in the country and only generated one bag of garbage per week and I abhor garbage smells. I also had mouse issues at the same time and didn't want the mice to get into the garbage.

Answer 3

I do this sometimes.
If I cook something like homemade chicken noodle soup and have smelly scraps left over I will put them in a zip lock bag and put them into the freezer until garbage day.
I am sure to label it as "garbage" just in case something happens to me and people are going through my freezer wondering what the heck is wrong with me.

I would rather have these in my freezer for a little bit than have stinky garbage or run the risk of the critters getting in for a bite.

Answer 4

Yes, I do something like that myself. Things that I know will start smelling bad in my garbage container, I put them in a plastic bag in the fridge until the weekly garbage pick-up. We have to pay a per-bag fee, in addition to the cost of the bag itself, so I pack that baby to the max each week!

Answer 5

Yes. I've heard of this, and it makes a lot of sense. These days we use a lot of recycled Wal-mart shopping bags for trash, so we dont' have to worry, but many times we've frozen garbage rather than have it stinking up the kitchen or the alley.

Answer 6

In France we have not any similar problem, since garbage trucks come everyday -

Otherwise selective garbage once a week - plastics, paper and aluminium -

Once a week too wrecked TVs - furniture - etc

hand workers must bring their litters to litter special centers, where you can bring car oil, old chemicals, batteries etc

We live in a great world don't we ???

Answer 7

I'm a 150% vegetarian because in vegetables also we reject 50% vegetables, especially which are bigger in size. Since, our religion rejects non-veg food on rational grounds, I know why it's necessary to place it in freezer even the waste till the garbage day. The reason is that dead body starts disintegrating very fast and gives faul smell but vegetable waste won't smell so soon. Just to prevent faul smell from vegetable waste, that lady is putting it in the freezer. In ice, disintegration reduces to a very low level.

Answer 8

No.
You would spend more on the lost electricity from opening and closing the freezer and chilling the bones than on a garbage bag.

Answer 9

In the summer months, I put kitchen scraps, in a plastic bag, lined container, with a lid, and keep it in the fridge, until garbage day, to keep it from stinking... adding to it, as more scraps are created...

Answer 10

no, but if she really wants to minimize waste she can take those chicken bones, add them to a pot of boiling water with a halved onion, couple of chunks of carrots and celery along with a tied up bunch of herbs. Boil it for a while, like an hour and once you drain it you have some of the best chicken broth ever, almost for free. That is freezeable (I use old ice cube trays for portions).

Answer 11

No, but it's a good idea. Your freezer is going to run regardless. And it sure beats having that nasty "old chicken" smell in your kitchen or garage. I personally use the plastic sacks that you get at the grocery store and tie the material up tight and put it in my regular trash. That is also pretty effective at odor reduction.