Last weekend our freezer failed. And here - that means that your whole refrigerator system breaks down since the freezer and the refrigerator parts are always connected. The Husband had just arrived with a week full of groceries and I was about to try to push the frozen items in to the tiny freezer half when I was met by a sauce of water and thawed food... We just had to turn around and head out and head for Lowe's and HomeDepot. No time for research or price comparisons.Turns out that you can't have a refrigerator that fast - so with an interim solution of a freezer box (that we have thought about anyway) and an new, tiny office refrigerator set up in the garage we have made it through the week, and luckily the warm temperatures last week was exchanged with lower temperatures cooling the garage preetty good. We still lost a lot of food. And it's been a hassle to go out and in of the garage to get food.
But now we have a new, more energy efficient refrigerator - and a freezer box. We really are "freezing" people and are so annoyed at the small freezer half of the refrigerator solution that is the standard here. It's impossible to find the free standing freezer/refrigerator solution they use in Scandinavia - where they both part are the same size - and if one part fails - you don't have to exchange the whole system.
And we have opted for a in-door-ice maker (there are hardly any refrigerators without ice makes and they take up a good quarter size of the freezer part...), hoping to get some more space to freeze food...
But it was not money that was planned to be spent - I had lots of other plans for stuff for the house... like the newly painted guestroom...
2 comments:
American "freezer" people tend to buy a separate free-standing freezer that they keep in their garage. If our garage were bigger, I would freeze even more stuff. While I like the water from the fridge (filtered, cold, and all that good stuff), I completely agree about the ice maker- big waste.
I'm sorry you guys got stuck buying an appliance. That's never where anyone wants to put their money.
Ally - yes - and the only appliance I really WANT to buy - is a new washer and dryer - and they gets pushed down (this was our third appliance - micro went first, then dishwasher and now refrigerator...). What do you do if you live in an apartment? Do people have freezer in the free standing garages too? Refrigerators in apartment complexes tend to be even smaller (with only the top freezer part). I like the clean, cold water - and now I will be less annoyed with the waste of space - with our new freezer in the garage (and no, to answer your husband - we do not plan to keep people in it... ;-)
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