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How big is your fridge?

Or do you even have a fridge? If you live in Ecuador chances are good you don't have one. Here in Shell that means that many people use boxed milk. It's a liter of milk that doesn't have to be refridgerated, and can be kept on the shelf for months. It also doesn't taste very good. Another option is to buy bag milk. Each bag is a liter of milk, and it's fresh. It's delivered to Shell twice a week, on Thursday and Saturday. Dustin and Taylor like the taste of the bag milk so much more than the box milk, so that's what we buy. We buy ten or twelve bags on Saturday, and that's enough for the week. I try to buy it from the lady who runs a little store just up the street. But when I'm in a pinch, and she's closed, I go across town to another place. The last time I was there, the teenage girl who was working there wanted to know why I was buying so many bags. The girl tonight didn't say anything, but I could tell by the look on her face that she wondered why I needed so much milk. It's really not that much--just about two and a half or three gallons depending on how many bags I get. But if you don't have a fridge in your house, how would you use up that much milk before it goes bad? People in Shell do their shopping every day or so, only buying what they need for the next meal or two. Shopping for the next week or two is unheard of.