Well, I went for it and bought 2 Yeti's today at Bass Pro Shop. A 62 quart and a 25 quart. They're stupid expensive (!) but I'm hoping the ice will last a longer time than with the Coleman Xtreme's we have and ultimately save me money in the long run. I had two gift cards worth $75 so that saved me a little bit. I drink iced tea literally by the gallons (as those here who know me, know) and I brew it fresh camping and if I'm making margarita's for the group, too, then I can easily go through a few of those 22 lb bags of ice. Between the iced tea maker, my cups of iced tea and the margarita machine I'm crazy on ice usage! I also bought the Magic Chef portable ice maker on sale for $150 at Kohl's and that thing has been cranking out ice pretty fast. So far I'm really pleased with that thing. Got some commercial 22 lb ice bags, too and now I'm good to go. HA! The smaller cooler should hold a big bag of ice nicely and make it through a typical weekend of iced tea making without much ice melting and the bigger cooler will house our regular food stuffs. The Xtremes will still come into play for holding the food when it's a margarita weekend using more ice in the big Yeti. With the previous coolers I was running out of ice due to it melting too fast.
-Alan
--- In tabtrailers@yahoogroups.com, "alan_mcdowell" <alanjmcd@...> wrote:
>
> Cindy, that's what ours are, the Igloo MaxCold and they are quite nice
> and keep the cubes for several days. I saw the Yeti's online and they
> sound even better but for the money we'll probably be sticking with the
> Igloo for at least this next season.
>
> Deb, I remember your set up with the electric cooler and it was pretty
> neat but I think it gets cold down to 20 below ambient, right, so if
> the temp was 80 outside your cooler would only be 60, right?
>
> As for the block ice vs. cubes we use both that way I've got cubes for
> my tea.
>
> Thanks everyone for the replies and good info! GAWD, I love this
> site/group! :-)
>
> -Alan
>
>
> --- In tabtrailers@yahoogroups.com, "cynthiaostrowski" <candj@>
> wrote:
> >
> > I just looked at the yeti pricing--too much for me
> > $449./120 Qt.Tundra.
> > I have an Igloo MaxCold 5 Day cooler 120 Qt.--under $100.@K-Mart. The
> > only way I can Get 5 Days is to use (3) 10 pound BLOCKS of Ice, but
> > this works for us. Sometimes you have to look around for the Blocks,
> > but they are Best.
> > ps. I too had a latch break and they did send another replacement
> > part, but I just put Duct Tape on the old one and am getting by, but
> > our use is not heavy. cindy
> >
>
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