Hubby and I have been on the hunt for a new refrigerator, mainly because since the resuscitation of the old one back in August? to the tune of $250, our beloved fridge has been going Sybill on us lately. One day the milk is just a touch not cold enough, the next day it’s the polar ice cap.
I don’t need a fridge that sings to me or tells me how beautiful I am in the morning (although that might be a nice add-on). I went shopping for a basic fridge with an external filtered water dispenser.
So, off we go to Lowe’s for their Veteran’s Day Sale. They had four rows of refrigerators. Your basic top/bottom, side-by-side, and the new french door top with the freezer bottom. We didn’t want the bare-bones top-bottom (no water dispenser or inconveniently located in the fridge). We looked at the new-fangle french door ones, but as much as I loved seeing the fridge portion wide and at eye-level… the freezer on the bottom was useless. I mean, who wants to DIG in your freezer? I would never find anything in there!
So, we are forced back to the side-by-side. And, now, we decide we want stainless. But did you know there are several different kinds of stainless? true stainless, faux stainless, satin stainless? Satin stainless won out (I did the fingernail test… shhhhhh) because it was the only one that did not scratch with minimum effort and showed no handprints.
In the end, our final choice was a Whirlpool Gold, which met all of my needs except it doesn’t talk to me. lol.
It does however, have a few bells and whistles I could have done without. Of course it was one of the only models that cannot be delivered next-day. So we won’t have it until the day before Thanksgiving next week. Or maybe earlier local Lowe’s helper says.
Did I mention I am hosting Thanksgiving?
Eventually, when I become independently wealthy, I will need to replace the stove and the dead microwave, even the dishwasher soon I bet. Now that it’s been 8 years since we last fully furnished the kitchen I’ll know better next time when I am thinking appliances aren’t THAT expensive.
For now, I thank Lowe’s for the no-interest financing… which allows us to buy food to put into the refigerator.
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I imagine my brand new pretty, shiny, stainless steel fridge will die long before the one we have in our basement. It’s from probably the 1950s, maybe 60s, came with our old house, still works just fine. So when the new one dies, I have somewhere to put my food. 😉
If you buy me, I’ll talk to you whenever you want :O). Eh, I’ll do that for free!Love the fridge.. so new and shiny!
LOL!That's a great fridge! I'm going to be doing new fridge shopping in the next year so you'll have to let us know the real world verdict on this!!!