Hello everyone. My name is Rae, and I've subscribed to this list for maybe 8 or 10 months now. I've met some wonderful people here, gotten great ideas and advice, passed on a little of my own, and gotten a huge kick out of all the cute and funny stories I read. I love the stories the ferrets tell when they are able to sneak onto the computer, when Mommies and Daddies aren't looking. (Like the Mr. Sunshine adventure, by the Pietinkieville kids.) Delurking here with an urgent request for my precious fuzzies. I am looking for a free or cheap freezer, in excellent working condition so I can freeze ice for my babies. Hubby had to go back to school to learn a new trade when work injuries caused him to lose his job last June. We are getting payments from L&I, (equivalent of worker's compensation here in Washington State), so we're not suffering terribly, but huge vet bills and my broken car have drained us for awhile. Unfortunately, I don't make enough to live on right now, much less make major purchases like freezers. Our little fridge's freezer won't freeze things during really hot weather, and the refrigerator freezes only the stuff I don't want it to, in winter, of course. I just had to throw everything in the freezer out due to our hot weather here in the Seattle area. I work part time days and evenings as a nanny, but have some leeway sometimes to come by the house to check on the babies. Hubby gets here about 5:00, sometimes earlier, from school. Fortunately, in our basement apartment, it is cooler here than it is where I work, so the babies are better off here. I am buying bags of ice at the store and keeping them in the freezer until they melt so I can make ice packs wrapped in towels for Henry Longfellow and Missy to keep cool, because lately, the pop bottles and milk jugs won't freeze. I poured some ice into a cooler today and covered it with a towel so the kids could lay on top of it if they wanted. Henry thought it was a new kind of litter box and promptly did his thing in there. I got that cleaned up and then they decided it was a great place to dig and play. It really perked them up. I was worried they'd get too cold but they seem to have good instincts about what they can handle, and only played in there long enough to take the edge off the heat. My babies are my life and I have even turned down a free trip and free lodging in Hawaii because I can't bear to be separated from them. If anyone knows of anything available, or has a freezer they'd be willing to donate or sell really really cheap, please e-mail me at [log in to unmask] I would be extremely grateful. [Posted in FML issue 2383]