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    Posted: 24 Apr 2018 at 6:59pm
We bought a small ice machine for making ice for the coolers when fishing down on Cape Hatteras, a lot better than buying a bag every other day for the month. Have use that ice machine for 3 years now!!  
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I'd move.
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Originally posted by TheBum

Wow, you must know a place for cheap ice. It's $2 per 10 lbs minimum down here in Texas, unless you can find one of those self-service ice "kiosks".
You just gave me an idea for a poll; the bagged ice poll. The camping trip time before last, I think we paid $5 for a 7 lb bag. Kind of a measure of the relative cost of living in any particular area.
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I buy it on post at Fort Campbell.
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Wow, you must know a place for cheap ice. It's $2 per 10 lbs minimum down here in Texas, unless you can find one of those self-service ice "kiosks".
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Posts: 3419 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Apr 2018 at 3:44pm
+1 to fridge bars and large cooler, I buy ice. With quality cooler my ice lasts 4-5 days. I debated ice maker. But figured I can buy that or 100 bags of ice.
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Posts: 592 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Apr 2018 at 3:39pm
We also like many here use a cooler for drinks and such. Though I got tired of buying ice every day and I was about to spend hundreds of dollars on a Yetti cooler so I made my own poor man version of a Yetti. Now I can get three days out of a bag of ice to keep drinks cold in the cooler, not bad for a $20 investment and a little work I'd say? 
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Posts: 1407 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Apr 2018 at 11:13am
Originally posted by StephenH

Refrigerator bars (spring-loaded, rubber tipped bars that are placed across the front of the shelves help to keep things from falling off. That way, you can stack some items and still have them stay in place. I also put a couple of them behind the upper shelf so that things would not fall off the back side. I do wish they had made the shelves a bit wider also, but have used the bars to help use what we have more effectively.


+1. They also come in handy for packing the pantry in our 179. We have shelves in the pantry and the bars keep items on the shelves.
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Thanks for some helpful ideas.  
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Posts: 1447 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Apr 2018 at 10:21pm
Originally posted by Pod People

We also use a cooler as an added space to keep drinks and vegetables cold.  We use the refrig for meats, cheese, eggs, milk and things that need to be kept cold and somewhat constant temp.  the cooler has the rest.  It lives in the back of our expeditioin and is readily accessible.
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