Ah memories….
Back in the day, my dad occasionally would open our family fridge and announce to my busy mother (and all within earshot), “Pat, we have a science project in here!” Since neither my brothers nor I ever conducted refrigerated experiments at home, the announcement meant mom had overlooked a leftover of some sort …that had begun to acquire some manner of surface dots and other amoeba.
This month, Where Bloggers Live is peeking into the chilled closet of secrets…our refrigerators.
For me, this WBL post topic occurs one month too soon.
Our refrigerator is eeking along, just about two weeks shy of being replaced as part of “The Great Kitchen Renovation.” Although it sits dutifully in its current location (one that changes several times a week while my hero of a brother moves it around to perform the day’s electrical tasks and drywall installation), the fridge occasionally groans under the shadow of the replacement that was delivered more than two months ago.
Old Silver, which I’ll call her for clarification, is the second family refrigerator we purchased over, lo, these nearly 40 years. Pretty reliable workhorses, those two; although the first had significantly greater longevity than the second.
Nevertheless, Old Sil was joyfully selected for a particular feature: it boasted a pantry drawer that was large enough to accommodate a party-sized pizza box. And it did so with great frequency when the kiddos all lived home.
As for the rest, her stainless steel exterior collected finger prints like a police station booking office, and I often lamented that we chose pizza storage over cleanliness.
Bahahaha, there was no lamenting! It was pizza storage for the win!
She was difficult to clean,,,there were no instructions for how to get tiny crumbs from between the double walled plastic drawers. I turned to Samsung with no avail. However, Mama Youtube had the answer via a video made by some saint who was able to separate the drawers without cracking off the little tabs that held the drawer together. I was not so fortunate, and many of the tabs had cracked off during my frequent attempts to retrieve the aforementioned crumbs.
Sil was a standard depth fridge, and because she nestled extra-snugly to the left of the no-longer-existent pantry closet, we were never able to open the right side fully.
This time, now that it’s just Mr and I, we’re going to try living with a counter-depth refrigerator… I felt that this will be akin to going on a food storage diet…but we’ll see, as Mr had some surprises up his sleeves.
For her final days, Sil has been packed with salad, taco and sandwich ingredients; a splendid and ridiculous array of condiments; assorted juices; and coffee creamer (aka the MVP).. Mr eats a lot of salad…I’m more into “girl dinner” during these ongoing days of a deconstructed kitchen. THEREFORE…the current view of what’s in my refrigerator is thus:
Sil’s shiny exterior is currently adorned with hasty cleaning streaks, some likely undetected fingerprints, and–I only noticed a moments ago–a degrading splatter of drywall mud compound. Poor unappreciated Sil. That ain’t no way to treat a lady.
Join me for a peek into several other refrigerators to see what’s in cold storage with:
Daenel at Living Outside the Stacks
Bettye at Fashion Schlub
Sally at Within a World of My Own
Jodie at Jodie’s Touch of Style
(Leslie and Iris are on break this month.)
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Ahh, I am intimately familiar with the science projects. I now just call the produce section at the market the science project section, cuz really…that’s how 90% of it’s going to end up. Although right now I have a little pack of frozen hash browns in my tiny freezer (that doesn’t actually keep anything frozen) sporting the loveliest patches of green and blue. That’s a hard thing to throw away here so til I “need” the space in the freezer, they’ll just sit there, experimenting away.
Ooh, room for a pizza box, that’s some upper-crust stuff right there. I would gladly take that over a fingerprint-free door. You chose well, ma’am.
Now I want pizza. And grapefruit juice. You KNOW how I feel about grapefruit juice.
Do you have a HA HA HA estimated date of completion? In the kitchen, I mean.
Bettye xoxo
Estimated date of completion: 🤷🏻♀️
I am not really the driver of this train. Sometimes I steer. Sometimes I put crap on the track and derail. Most of the time I help shovel coal. …You get the idea.
BUT… we are nearly caught up with the all things that were in progress…and simply “maintaining” for a while before the next part begins is going to be a lovely change.
Our refrigerator is quite similar. When we were looking to buy a new one our sales person had mentioned something about pizza storage as well. Lol.
That’s when they had me, Hena! Pizza box 😍, (And thank you for commenting!)
Only two refrigerators in 40 years? That’s amazing! We had more than that in our last house, and we lived there for about 30 years. I don’t even want to think about the number of refrigerators we’ve had. Our second house had an interesting mix of colors in the kitchen…the paneling was green; the range was milk chocolate, and the refrigerator was coppertone (at least, I think that’s what they called it then). I cannot wait to see the reveal of the whole house renovation! I didn’t even know you could buy refrigerators of different depths, though I did know they come in different heights. The mister certainly didn’t even though I tried to warn him. He just had to remove a cabinet and cut it down. He now knows to listen to his wife…hahaha!!
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I was pretty surprised as well that two fridges lasted so long (of course I’m not counting the garage fridges, just the inside ones). That first one was an amazing purchase! Incredible ROI !! Your second house sounds like it was a lovely melange of autumnal hues…and would match some of the pyrex with which I will not part.
We are just about at the “eye of the storm” with our adventure. Almost caught up with the things we can do ourselves and about to determine what happens next!
I’m ashamed that we’ve never named our fridge. Our robot vacuum, yes, but never the fridge.
And can we talk about the difference between you (a neat freak) and me (the slob) because I have NEVER searched YouTube to find how to clean anything in my house, LOL.
I will say that we do like the non-stainless steel coating on the outside of ours although for the life of me I can’t even remember what it’s called.
But you will update us when the new fridge sees the light of day, right?
XOOX
Jodie
To be fair, I only named it as of this post, haha. You had me giddy all month, btw, when you called me a neat freak. I would’ve told Mister, but he would have spit his coffee out all over the white cabinets and they would’ve stayed that way until the next time we have company.
The new fridges were partially installed last night. Partially, because the handles are backordered, so they can’t put the decorative fronts on until they arrive. But they are open-able from the top, so we will no longer have to step over the junk in the garage to retrieve our food every night. Good times.
It will be VERY fun to write an update post. Soooooo close!
I enjoyed getting to meet Old Sil as she enjoys her final huzzah as your refrigerator. You are BRAVE to go to a small fridge! I don’t even understand what a “pantry door” in the fridge would mean; I guess that’s appliance-speak for “pizza box storage”…because that is 100% for a pizza box! OK, now I want pizza.
I ALWAYS want pizza.
So as it turned out, one of Mister’s surprises was, essentially, a his and hers fridge (if you can believe it). So yes, smaller, but two of them. I have a feeling they will both be “hers” when it’s time to clean them.