Tracy and I returned home from a recent trip to discover our refrigerator died prematurely. We filled garbage bags with spoiled food no longer safe for consumption. I spent the next hours ordering a new appliance online.
Modern refrigerators offer a bewildering array of high-tech features like internet connectivity, transparent doors, touch-screen pads, and inventory management. They also keep food cold.
One brand boasted four different ice options, including cubed, crushed, mini-cubed, and craft. The latter setting produces large spheres of slow-melting ice for bourbon and whiskey. Diluted, name-brand alcohol sounds like a first-world problem, so we opted for a simpler model.
My parents owned an ancient, harvest-gold refrigerator from the 1970s that tenaciously clung to life. It might still be running in some unknown landfill. Modern appliance self-destruct within a decade with planned obsolescence programmed into their electronics.
I’m just glad to have a new refrigerator that keeps things cold in the top half and frozen in the bottom half. Follow me for more household tips.
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I feel your pain. Mine broke after two years. It, and its replacement, make very loud noises. I have been woken up by them, thought someone was trying to kick down my front door, and been given near heart attacks. There are several pages in the manual dedicated to the noises. I miss the original refrigerator I loved, probably already 15 years old, that the previous owners left in the house when we purchased it 18 years ago. If I had only known.
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I feel your pain. Mine broke after two years. It, and its replacement, make very loud noises. I have been woken up by them, thought someone was trying to kick down my front door, and been given near heart attacks. There are several pages in the manual dedicated to the noises. I miss the original refrigerator I loved, probably already 15 years old, that the previous owners left in the house when we purchased it 18 years ago. If I had only known.
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