Yaaaay! I am getting a new fridge!!! How sad is that?

I mean, I am sitting here actually excited at the prospect of a new fridge. Where has my life gone? ;)

The old fridge is missing the vent on the bottom, has duct tape holding two of the door shelves on, and if you put the food too far back it will freeze because the temp control is iffy at best.

I have been begging my husband...through the purchase of a compound miter saw and a chain saw (we have no trees in our yard that need clearing but,"isn't it cool?") for a new fridge. I finally sold him on the idea of crush iced, all the time, anytime.

Of course, it will be here anytime between 7 am and 5 pm. So they will probably show up while I am driving my son to school, in which case I shouldn't get my hopes up.

Just when did the thought of a new appliance become the focal point of my day?

Have a great day everyone!
MrsGrumpy

and needed to rely on your fridge? Congrats, by the way. I look forward to the day when I get a new washing machine.

to barter for a new washer. I would love to have the Neptune set. Hope you get yours soon!

getting a new fridge and dishwasher on Sunday. Not really excited, but the old fridge is going in the :He mans women haters club" and is gonna be stocked full of beer.

Alfalfa drunk.

DDQM

For the guys. :)

I need a new refrig and was going to buy one this month, BUT I had to spend $650 on my car. My dog developed a blockage of her anal gland that cost me $400. I had an anaphylactic reaction and took quite a few trips to the doctors and pharmacy, costing me around $400 out of pocket. My hubby just had a colonoscopy and polyp removal - that only cost us about $110 (because it was at the VA). Christmas is next month, so, if I get my new refrigerator, it will have to be a Christmas gift. It's a good thing I have a happy outlook on life or I'd be depressed. :-)

Oh, and, I forgot, our proptery taxes are due this month.

P.S. My old refrigerator, which was here when we bought the place, attacks me. It has openings in the door shelves that are wide enough for large Heinz catsup/ketchup bottles to fall through and hit you in the foot. I swear, I'd love to take a sledge hammer to that thing (on edit - also to the guy who designed the thing).

once when a jar of pickles slipped out and fell on my foot. It's a Magic Chef from the early eighties.

Mine is my Christmas present this year as well. I hope you get yours as well, and that you and your family have a happy and healthier holiday.

Hugs, Laura

they were manufactured at the same plant. Mine is probably from the same time period.

Thanks for the good wishes. Actually, we all ARE pretty healthy, but sometimes things just all happen at once. Happy Holidays to you too.

:hug:

We are getting a new one in January, and I can't wait either! I about went out of my mind with glee when we got the new dishwasher (again, out of sheer necessity). So, I hear ya loud & clear!

deal on this one. We were actually looking at T.V.'s and my husband said go check them out.

I don't think we appreciate the simple things that make life so much easier sometimes. I remember three days when the power was out in August and I have to tell you the white box was never so appreciated as when it came back on and I could throw all the soggy ice bags out and clean and stuff the cooler away. We must remember that it's been just a hundred years or less that we've had these wonderful appliances (refridgerator, indoor plumbing, washing machines, etc.) Talk about women's lib! Do you think women would have accomplished what we have outside the home without these blessed timesavers?

We should never take these things for granted as there are so many people throughout the world who live without them and would love to have them.

Enjoy your new refridgerator!

HUGE. I think I went a little overboard....

It might be a good idea to figure out how you're going to connect it to the water supply and run the plumbing first. You don't want to move the refrigerator twice if you don't have to.

bought the ice/water maker kit. The fridge is plugged in, but we haven't gotten to the water part yet. He had a date tonight....with our son. ;)

Mr. Nownow and I put a curse on our old electric stove four years ago, it was here when we bought the house and in good working order, if a little beat-up, and we didn't want to get rid of it just because we didn't want an electric stove -- as long as it was perfectly functional. So we said, when we moved in, 'as soon as anything goes wrong with it that affects the functionality, we'll get a new stove.'

So, four years later, the big burner on the front that we both used most started spitting sparks at the socket once in a while. I told Mr. Nownow it was starting to go -- that was about eight months ago. It still worked, in spite of the crackling noises, and I made sure I knew where the baking soda box was just in case.

Finally, a few weeks ago, the burner wouldn't heat up for him. We looked into fixing it, and it wouldn't have been horribly expensive but ... well, it would have cost more than the fifteen-year-old range could have been sold for, we decided.

So, we did a quick study on it -- Consumer Reports, mostly -- since neither of us had ever bought a gas stove. I spent the entire afternoon on Friday picking through options and reliability ratings, printing out descriptions and model numbers. By the time we went looking, we'd narrowed it down to two or three models, and we didn't plan on waffling or negotiating -- they were the ones, so if we didn't find one of them, we'd order the damned thing.

We found one of the ones I'd printed out, though. Bought it on Friday night, they delivered it on Saturday, and Saturday night, after lobbying me all afternoon, I told Mr. Nownow to go ahead and hook it up. I mean, it's *gas* -- I wasn't sure I trusted it to go well enough that somebody who's never worked with natural gas could hook it up well enough not to either gas us and our five animals or blow us all to bits.

Late that night, I was sitting down here in the family room, on the computer. Mr. Nownow had gone upstairs for a Coke. I heard this bizarre sound from the kitchen -- 'click-click-click - whoosh' -- over and over. Finally, I got up and went upstairs. He was standing in front of the stove with this strange little grin on his face, turning the burners on and off, over and over. The clicking was the piezo primer on the burners (newer stoves, apparently, don't have pilot lights anymore -- you coulda' knocked me over with a feather).

Yeah, we're thoroughly domesticated. But I remember all Mom's new major appliances, over the years -- she's only been through two stoves, four televisions and two refrigerators in the thirty-five years I can remember. Spending that kind of money should be a big event. If buying a major appliance isn't a major event in my life, I'm entirely too blase about money.

MrGrumpy can't wait for crushed ice. :)

of my refrigerator. Don't know why it drains, but it does. Its rusted and ugly but it keeps beer cold so it'll have to do. I need glasses!

Washer and dryer are 25 years old and still going strong.

And, yes, I do wonder often when appliances, housework and gardening took over my life. In other words, when did I grow up?

grate in the bottom was missing (I am telling you this was one sorry looking refrigerator) and it ran all the time, and then would leak water out the bottom. I took a leaf blower and blew out the back, and the leaking stopped until it clogged up again.

The old landlord wouldn't get one.

Now there's a new owner. I'll soak him for it.

if they don't need it. ;)

Pun intended.....
I got excited when my mom and dad bought me a new fridge 6 years ago when I bought the house I lost...Me and the kid had been making do with one of those "college dorm" fridges I bought at a thrift store for $20...

The house is gone, but I still have both fridges....

So I SWEAR I didn't steal your pun. :D

he's hardly working...er...I mean working hard. :)

last September had me completely GIDDY what with buying THE stove of my dreams and the fridge of my fantasies!

Screw flowers, give this gal fancy schmancy appliances ANY OLD DAY.

Hell, one of the best days of my life was when I got my Kitchen-Aide mixer! It's the whomper.

get MrGrumpy to see the need for it though. ;) They are great mixers.

Kitchen tools get used more than fix-it tools, or at least that's been my mantra the last few years. :)

the yard that needs no clearing. ;)

You don't want a cheap little bread carver to take out those dangerous dandelions! :)

Thanks for the laugh...and for giving MrGrumpy ideas. ;)

No pun intended! ;-) :bounce:

With space for popsicles for my grandchildren....ahem.

You can get those picture frame magnets to put pics of them in, saying "World's Greatest Grandma!" :D

:hi:

Husband thinks I've gone round the bend.

It has already paid for itself in reduced electric bills and food that doesn't spoil.

Congratulations! A new refrigerator is a wonderful thing.

I am looking forward to actually using the back part of a shelf again. ;)

I will be getting an additional refrigerator and a full stove and oven at the beginning of next year. I'll be able to have a really big party in my lab now.