Food preservation during the harvest and chest freezers

We go through phases here on EnviroMom where we seem to get stuck in a category. Given that it's the harvest season, predictably, all I can think about is food. Berries, melons, greens, tomatoes, cukes. Yummmmm. Produce.... Sorry. Had a (healthy) Homer Simpson moment there.

The good news this year is that I am not as panicked about the weekly CSA produce as I was last year. The CSA just seems normal. I even got to offer some guidance and advice to some CSA newbies. I don't feel like I have veggies coming out of my ears. I've been taking the approach to freeze whatever we don't eat in any given week. However, that's led to a small problem. My freezer is full. The good news about the freezer being full is it gives me a great excuse not to buy any more of those darned frozen convenience foods any more (i.e., frozen waffles). The bad news? There's no more room in the freezer.

So after doing some research (mostly picking the brains of people who have supplemental freezers and who do food preservation via freezing), we are getting a chest freezer. It should come sometime later this week, and I hope to celebrate the arrival of the freezer by going berry picking and filling that bad-boy up! We did opt for a chest freezer, which I understand can be a bit awkward to search around in. I'm hoping to set up some kind of map or list of what's in its frozen depths, and we'll cross things off the list once they are removed from the freezer. I've always meant to do that with my regular freezer but haven't. That's why I can characterize my relationship with my freezer as follows: I love my freezer; I hate my freezer. The other day I found stuffing from THANKSGIVING in my freezer. How in the heck does that happen? The stuffing is the best part of Thanksgiving next to the pumpkin pie! In any case, it became part of a strata that was marketed to my family as "leftover pie" and it went down quite nicely.

Do you have a chest freezer? How do you keep track of all the stuff frozen inside?