I would my generator just enough to keep my freezers good

I would not be letting it run balls to the wall just so I could watch Pat Sajak and Murder She Wrote and the regular 10 hours of daily Boomer television consumption.

Run it 4-5 hours tops in a 24 hour period.

Use it to also charge a battery bank of several deep cycles too and then run low demand appliances off of those batts via DC to AC invertor