We had a freezer we had to defrost and it was a bear! We kept it in the garage, and I hated doing it. The ice build up was horrid. I wish I knew about putting Vaseline all over the insides. I wonder if something like Pam spray would do the same thing? When our freezer died, (it was very old, we bought it used many moons ago), I went with a frost free freezer. The guy at the store tried and tried to talk me out of getting a frost free freezer and get a regular one. I stuck to my guns and got what I wanted. We rotate our food, and since our kids are going through growing stages every other week, we do not keep food in there long enough to go bad!