You Know When it Rains, It Pours?
August 5, 2008 by Marye Audet
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So, you know how yesterday the backhoe knocked out our computer and phone?
Today the refrigerator breathed its last gasp and died.
Right in the middle of my 112 degree kitchen. The traitor.
AM I the only one old enough to remember those rounded topped, deco looking fridges with the tiny freezer? The ones that seemed to last forever and were still going strong after 20 years?
My refrigerator was an expensive model, well, to me. We paid over 1,200.00 for it. It was only 6 years old…SIX YEARS. That stupid fridge cost me 200 dollars a year.
I am all about companies going green, I am all about all of the really important environmental stuff…but daggone it, isn’t it environmentally better for someone to make a fridge that lasted 20 or 30 years?
So help me, if I had the money I would have the pantry turned into a walk-in!
So, we have the milk in a cooler and everything else sitting on the counter while we figure out what to do…Did I mention that we made a commitment to not use credit cards?
Stay tuned folks, it is going to get interesting…or else really hot and smelly….
Image:Personal Collection of Marye Audet
how do you manage to have all the animals that you have so close to dallas? my hat is off to you!
thanks larry
Larry, unbeknownst to many there are still small country towns south of Dallas proper. We are 20 minutes for the heart of downtown..Noone really notices us down here because we are not cool and rich like Frisco and Plano.:)
We only have two acres so it isn’t like we have a huge farm or anything…
Oh dear.
LOL!
Marye, big families wear things out more rapidly. Especially homeschooling families who are home all day using everything in their homes. It’s a fact. We were told with our first washer that it would last 13 years. 6 years later the repair guy told us it would be $400 to repair everything in it, that we better get it out of the house before it dropped some nasty fluid on the floor and that we were better off buying a new one. Back then new was $300.
They don’t make things like they used to, but you have to factor in that we grew up in much smaller families. The appliances lasted so long because they were hardly used.
Yikes! Sorry to hear it, Marye. I sure do remember the old, steady versions.
They were cool, weren’t they?
I DO remember those fridges! We had one OUTSIDE, not in a garage (sounds weird
), and it worked for years out there. Rain and all. Don’t ask me why they decided to keep it running after putting it outside (beer fridge? haha), and not give it away or get rid of it. But that buggar worked! What a strong little thing it was. I want one of those.
Me too Jo!