We did it because we lived out in the country and the trash only came once a week. If we left it outside, the various animals outside would get into it. If we left it inside, the cat would get into it. So anything that wasn't going into the compost pile or (after we gave up on the compost after fire ants infested it) wasn't thrown off the back porch for the deer to eat* went into the freezer until trash day.


* Sometimes deer ate it. Usually it was the possum that lived in the bottom of the wellhouse or the raccoon that lived in the top of the wellhouse that ate it.