Dangit!!!!!

So evidently the temptation was too much for me and i have outgrown my tupperdor. I bought a large cooler (on sale at Academy), cleaned it out, dried it, and put a bunch of empty boxes in there with a bunch of beads to let the environment settle down. The bad thing is that the tupperdor fit nicely under the bed, and well the cooler doesn't.

Now I have to figure out how to tell my wife why there is a large white cooler in the bedroom.

Assuming I am not allowed to keep a large cooler in the bedroom, this will have to go into the study. The problem is that one of the study walls is an outside wall of the house that gets TONS of sun. The temperature in the study is normally around 77-78 in the Summer while the rest of the house is a nice 73.

So my question is this: How do I keep the cooler cool?

I live in Houston so there is no basement. The closets have exterior walls and don't have AC vents so they are just as bad as the study. I was thinking of just getting one of those blue ice pack things and keeping it in there with a towel.

Any help and/or experience is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

spiffy