So, I woke up on Tuesday to melted frozen berries and ice cream streaming out of the fridge.
The boys came running in saying something had exploded in the freezer. Boyd has a bad habit of putting soda in the freezer to get cold quickly and forgetting about it. What does this do? Soda cans explode in freezing temperatures. However, this was no soda accident!
The weirdest thing, the top 1-2 shelves of both the fridge and freezer were no longer cold. Boyd and I tried all day to figure it out. We turned it off, cleaned out the back of the fridge, underneath the fridge, took out food etc. We tried it all. So, we then went fridge shopping. Not the funnest when you are leaving to Hawaii in a week and a half. Oh well, things could be WAAAAY worse, and they have been, believe you me!
So, we had no milk for a few days and new Mr. Fridge was scheduled to arrive today. Old Mr. Fridge still wasn't working until late last night, when WALA! The water Boyd put on the top shelf (just a little pudddle, on purpose) finally froze. Although it started working again, we had already purchased a new fridge and we both decided we couldn't put up with a fridge that just gets cold when it wants to. That's just unnacceptable in the White house. I need my bon-bons frozen and my caffeine free Diet-Coke cold baby!
Well, the new fridge came today and guess what? It doesn't fit! Boyd measured everything before hand and we knew it would be a tight squeeze, but it's not squeezing anymore and has about 10 inches to go.
So, I sent the delivery guys home and Boyd will need to deal with it when he gets home. The good news is, Boyd can fix anything and I'm sure he'll figure out a way to get the fridge in it's rightful place.
Now, the rest of our appliances are calling for stainless steel and our floor is calling for wood! I wish it could happen tomorrow, but it won't, and I just have to be patient. I have a great kitchen, that I love. I shouldn't be so wanting and be more grateful. Boyd's been working on the basement for a year and we cannot do any other home improvements until that's done.
Stay tuned!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Death of a Fridge
Posted by White Family at 11:35 AM
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Sorry about the fridge, but congrats on the new one. You're right, Boyd-o can figure it out. I'm sure he'll be pleased to have that challenge.
Speaking of refrigeration, we just scored a free freezer. It wasn't working, but now it does, so. . .it's been in our car-port for 2 days till tonight. Date night, here we come! We're making room for it in our laundry room. Then, we're placing an order for a side of beef to fill that baby up.
Yes, I said "car-port." There still are respectable people in this world who have car-ports, rental houses, and rickety old vans with no heat/ac. And my carport just happens to have a freezer in it. Somewhere over the rainbow. . . .oh wait, there is no rainbow.
That sucks! That fridge was a POS from day one. We had to have GE fix it 2 or 3 times. What can I say though, it was only like $800 so you can't expect too much. It will make a nice basement fridge though.
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