Fall Cleaning

[billroper]

We went to the grocery store and returned with a great many perishable items which needed to go into the refrigerator. Unfortunately, the fridge was being determinedly full. Well, I could fix that. What in here should actually come out?

The leftover pizza from last week could go. Let's check the other leftovers. Ok, that's ok. That's not.

And then I found the remains of The Great Jello Spill of 2013.

Before I was done, I had pulled everything out of the fridge and enlisted daisy_knotwise to clean the shelves that I removed and sent over to the sink, while I triaged the food that had come out.

Then I started to reassemble the fridge.

And I realized that it was no longer running.

Ok, maybe it had shut off in self-defense with the door hanging open for that long. So I turned it off and finished putting it back together, putting all of the surviving food back in. And then I turned it back on.

And nothing happened.

So I pulled out the laptop and started pricing refrigerators, an exercise that I've been engaging in lately given that the fridge is seventeen years old.

And the compressor started running.

Apparently, the secret was to scare the fool thing into working...

Comments

[kizoku42.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm worrying about my own. It was used when we bought the house 21 years ago and I've fixed it 3 or 4 times.

[billroper]

Consumer Reports suggests that if your fridge is older than 10 years, it's probably not worth repairing. Of course, that's just a rule of thumb.

[kizoku42.livejournal.com]

They probably assume a service call too, not a home repair with a service manual. :) Still I'm sure its time is coming. I'm looking into the possibility that the county may -give- me one as part of an energy savings/low income program.

[kizoku42.livejournal.com]

:) Looked it up and my fridge is 21 years old.

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

Something lingers in the fridge!
Run away!

[billroper]

The Jello had moved past lingering to merging with the structure of the shelves, actually... :)

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Good trick! If only it could be counted on to work every time it's needed. :-)

When the big tornado came through the area in 2011, my power was out for several days. I was in Milwaukee at the time, and I downright welcomed emptying my fridge and freezer when I returned. Yes, I lost food, but not that much, and it was great to start fresh after 7 years here.

When the power went out for days following a big Halloween snowstorm a few months later, I wasn't as pleased....

[billroper]

Ow! Ow! Ow!