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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Separate chest freezers aren't actually that common unless you live in rural areas.
Anyone with kids has one. Can’t feed a family of 4 on a fridge and fridge freezer.
It of course varies a lot depending on where you are but I live in the suburbs, and they're pretty common around me. Not necessarily an "everyone has one" kind of thing, but definitely something that you know a good handful of people who have them.
https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/data/2020/state/pdf/State%20Appliances.pdf
According to the EIA, about 33% of households overall, state by state it's as low as 19% in California, and as high as 65% in south dakota. So even in states like California, Nevada, or New Jersey where 94+% of people live in an area that's considered urban, if you assume 100% of the rural residents have freezers, that's still about 13% of those city dwellers with a dedicated freezer.
I feel like the biggest deciding factor is probably whether or not you own a house, which is going to have a lot of correlation to being urban/rural. They take up space, so not conducive to apartment living, and they're kind of a bitch to move so you probably want to make sure you're going to be able to stay in a house for a while before buying a freezer so that you don't have to deal with moving it every few years if your landlord jacks up the rent and forces you out.