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Post by bookkeeper on Mar 1, 2021 16:56:09 GMT -5
I have two refrigerators at both houses. We bought a counter depth Kitchen Aid for the kitchen and an inexpensive Avanti apartment size frig for drinks and garden produce that sits on my covered porch. DH also has a mini frig in the garage for fishing bait. No more frozen worms! We also have a small chest freezer for our hunting and fishing adventures as well as freezing large blocks of ice for camping. We buy food in bulk, so I know there is a cost savings. Never having to buy bags of ice is a cost savings too. All of it gets unplugged when we leave for the winter months except the kitchen frig. We have a lot of capacity, but we only use it seasonally. A new appliance will pay for itself quickly in electric savings. I have noticed my cheap Avanti must not have much insulation. Each October my beer will freeze as the nights get colder. Then my garage floor is my new beer frig.
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Post by sesfw on Mar 1, 2021 16:58:35 GMT -5
No. We have just enough space for one
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Mar 1, 2021 17:00:48 GMT -5
We must have a ton of stuff because the fridge on order is 28 cubic feet and the second one is staying. Just the fridge part or the whole unit? My whole unit is 33 cubic feet.
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Post by oped on Mar 1, 2021 17:18:32 GMT -5
I guess mine isn't that big then. 25.8 I read.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Mar 1, 2021 17:22:17 GMT -5
We must have a ton of stuff because the fridge on order is 28 cubic feet and the second one is staying. Just the fridge part or the whole unit? My whole unit is 33 cubic feet. Whole unit is 28 cubic feet.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2021 17:44:56 GMT -5
I wish we could have a larger fridge in the house but adjacent and overhead cabinets limit us to "apartment size" which is probably okay. There's no place for a second fridge or a chest freezer in the house or garage; summer temps in the upper 90's to 100+ make garage freezers and fridges impractical anyway. We absolutely don't need more chill or freeze capacity, but my $$ saving and prepper soul wants it.
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Post by schildi on Mar 1, 2021 17:57:30 GMT -5
We have three refrigerators and one upright freezer. If you count the one in the travel trailer, then it would be 4 fridges and one freezer. One of the fridges is in the shop, a cool looking retro style, but only plugged in during the summer - mainly used for beverages of all kinds.
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Post by billisonboard on Mar 1, 2021 18:06:38 GMT -5
We have a side by side in our kitchen, an upright freezer in a back room, and an old refrigerator/freezer in our garage. The sole reason for the one in the garage is that it belonged to my wife's brother before he passed away and having it still functioning provides her emotional comfort.
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Post by nidena on Mar 1, 2021 19:30:24 GMT -5
My parents have two. The one in the garage is where they put all their extra beverages for when they entertain--which is (was) often. It's one of those freezer-on-top kinds that are in every apartment. Their "fancy" fridge is in the kitchen.
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Post by jeffreymo on Mar 1, 2021 19:59:06 GMT -5
Most people I know have 2. Our basement is unfinished and our garage isn’t big enough. For our next house we will have a 2nd - mainly for beverages.
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Post by giramomma on Mar 1, 2021 23:51:16 GMT -5
We just have a chest freezer in the basement. Pre-pandemic, and pre- four kids...we'd actually it to store preserved food. Strawberries from the u-pick places in summer are far cheaper than strawberries in the dead of winter.
We're probably go broke keeping a fridge full of beverages all the time if we had a fridge just for beverages..Unlimited drinks in our house would mean going through 7-10 gallons of milk a week, and easily 3 24-packs of soda (or the equivalent in other non-alcoholic drinks.) every week.
Actually, that sort of boggles my mind that we have the capacity to go through 35 gallons of milk in a month, if we let the kids just go into a beverage fridge whenever.
Having four kids can be a trip sometimes.
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Post by raeoflyte on Mar 2, 2021 0:00:22 GMT -5
We had our basement fridge hauled out, but its been tough without it. The top shelf of our fridge is 2/3rds insulin storage, so we don't have any extra room in it. I am trying to reduce what we buy, and being short on space helps keep that focus. But we'll eventually get at least a dorm sized fridge to take over insulin duty and give us more room in the main fridge.
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Post by taz157 on Mar 2, 2021 0:21:34 GMT -5
We have a fridge in our kitchen and a mini fridge upstairs in our loft. The mini fridge is strictly for drinks (i.e., bottled water and juice boxes). The kitchen fridge is for everything else (plus some drinks). DH hates our current fridge and I'm not the biggest fan of the side-by-sides anymore, but we aren't ready to get a new one yet. I did see one I liked at Home Depot yesterday, but there's no reason to pull the trigger and get a new one. The current one functions just fine. It makes noise during the ice making process that drives DH nuts sometimes. I just suck at keeping it organized after DH organizes it (mainly the freezer side). Here's what caught my eye: www.homedepot.com/p/Samsung-27-cu-ft-French-Door-Refrigerator-in-Fingerprint-Resistant-Black-Stainless-Steel-RF27T5201SG/312904394
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Post by Regis on Mar 2, 2021 7:29:43 GMT -5
I have a beverage fridge in the garage. As a homebrewer, I typically make five gallon batches, which is about 53 bottles. After carbonation, it seems to condition better by taking it straight to the fridge. My wife wouldn't let me put 50+ bottles in our house fridge.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Mar 2, 2021 7:35:56 GMT -5
Supposedly I've been waiting so long because we ordered a side by side. I hate the ones with the freezer on the bottom. I feel you lose so much capacity with the basket/drawer arrangement and having to be able to slide the basket in. I feel we can stack things up much better in a side by side. I've never had an issue playing Tetris with them. And if something doesn't fit, that's what the chest freezer is for.
It's also possible that we use our freezer a lot more than others. I don't like paying full price for meat so we stock up when there's a sale or we get to Sam's Club. The chest freezer also currently contains a side of beef. Actually more like a third they screwed up and we get more in April.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Mar 2, 2021 8:11:35 GMT -5
Sometimes the only thing in the one fridge I have is the light bulb.
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Post by TheHaitian on Mar 2, 2021 8:52:11 GMT -5
We could use one but my wife would not let me... maybe a freezer instead of a fridge.
We are 4 adults, a toddler and a dog and it seems like every 3-5 days I have to grocery shop, and we are not talking a few items, we are talking $100-200 each trip, plus Costco trip at least once a week.
Also all the members of the household (except for me at times when I am at work and forgot to bring lunch) eat 100% of their meals prepared at home. My wife and MIL started to loosen up a bit so once a week I started ordering out on the days I am off to give them a break : they were worried about that with Covid.
So yeah depend on your family size and if you are that house where everyone hangs out. My aunt had a second fridge plus 2 freezers because all her kids friends hang out At their house, so it would be a surprised to have 15-20 kids there at any given time and if you are there and she is cooking: you are eating.
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Post by chiver78 on Mar 2, 2021 9:16:32 GMT -5
after seeing more posts, I should update my original. I've got a French door, bottom freezer unit in the kitchen and a wine fridge in the basement living room. the drawers in the kitchen unit don't allow for much storage if I have something big like a turkey in there. frozen pizza boxes just barely fit across, with the center divider, too. I'm not a fan. but, it works so I'll keep it for now.
what I really could use is a chest or upright freezer for the pantry, I could get back to making my own stocks and buying a lot more in bulk to take advantage of big sales. I also need to get a small industrial fridge for the tiki bar outside, after giving away the rusted monstrosity that was here when I bought the place.
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Post by thyme4change on Mar 2, 2021 10:27:57 GMT -5
Supposedly I've been waiting so long because we ordered a side by side. I hate the ones with the freezer on the bottom. I feel you lose so much capacity with the basket/drawer arrangement and having to be able to slide the basket in. I feel we can stack things up much better in a side by side. I've never had an issue playing Tetris with them. And if something doesn't fit, that's what the chest freezer is for. It's also possible that we use our freezer a lot more than others. I don't like paying full price for meat so we stock up when there's a sale or we get to Sam's Club. The chest freezer also currently contains a side of beef. Actually more like a third they screwed up and we get more in April. My husband and I have been fussing about this. He swears there is less room in the side freezers. I look at the cubic inches and can prove they are the same size, but we could stack the food and see it. I will say that our ice maker is taking room from the fridge, so maybe a side one would have less room. For me, I don't keep much in the freezer - but my kids are currently on a frozen food kick. Now that they eat lunch at home, they prefer something hot. So we have chicken nuggets, pizza rolls, breakfast sandwiches, chicken dumplings, taquitos, etc. Once they move out, it won't matter what size our freezer is. I currently hate our fridge, but it is new and it was expensive. It is way too big. In a couple of years, I will slyly sell it and buy a new one. Until then, I just have to quietly and continually express my frustration, so my husband isn't surprised.
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Post by Bonny on Mar 2, 2021 10:43:09 GMT -5
We have a fridge in our kitchen and a mini fridge upstairs in our loft. The mini fridge is strictly for drinks (i.e., bottled water and juice boxes). The kitchen fridge is for everything else (plus some drinks). DH hates our current fridge and I'm not the biggest fan of the side-by-sides anymore, but we aren't ready to get a new one yet. I did see one I liked at Home Depot yesterday, but there's no reason to pull the trigger and get a new one. The current one functions just fine. It makes noise during the ice making process that drives DH nuts sometimes. I just suck at keeping it organized after DH organizes it (mainly the freezer side). [img src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/embarrassed.png" class="smile" alt=" "] Here's what caught my eye: www.homedepot.com/p/Samsung-27-cu-ft-French-Door-Refrigerator-in-Fingerprint-Resistant-Black-Stainless-Steel-RF27T5201SG/312904394We have something similar and I love the French Door with the bottom freezer. However we have the unit that has water in the inside panel and a standard ice maker in the top freezer drawer. I don't like the outside water units. They take up too much space and eventually those ice makers clog up. We also have the "Beer Fridge" downstairs. It's a small almost dorm sized unit that FIL owned back when he had a mobile home. That thing is OLD, probably pushing 40 years. But it's cute (looks like a safe) and other than the ice maker works o.k. I doubt it saves us any money but it's very convenient to an outside patio area and DH's "man cave".
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Post by countrygirl2 on Mar 2, 2021 10:46:37 GMT -5
We have 2 fridges and 2 freezers. Our kitchen fridge is new, just had it a couple months as our not very old one died. I like the 3 drawer fridges, hate the side by sides. We had one of those never again. Ours is always loaded down. We also about 6 months ago had bought a new one for the garage, didn't have it long before one at a renters died so moved it there, it was a big one too.
We have a smaller full size fridge in the garage, has overflow. I generally have 3 gallons of milk on hand at least. The big freezer is in the garage, its one of the big chest type and is full. I freeze corn, peaches, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries. Keep extra bacon, butter, rolls, and buy enough meat at the amish butcher for at least 3 months at a time. The smaller one in the basement has bunches of frozen peppers and onions from the garden and meat. It's down a bit now and by summer we will move all that upstairs, empty and clean it for the fall harvest.
But yes we use them all. Family of 3
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Post by bean29 on Mar 2, 2021 10:59:56 GMT -5
We have two full size refrigerators. A worthless side by side in my kitchen upstairs which I really really want to replace, and a French door Samsung that is about 8 years old in my kitchen in my basement. They are both pretty full. We keep extra produce (for DD's rabbits) in the basement one along with soda and excess beer and usually a bottle of wine or two. We also have a beer fridge in the basement. it is a cheap one, and it was broken for awhile, but DH replaced it.
The freezer in the side by side is hard to fit anything in. So we really depend on the freezer in the basement.
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Post by daisylu on Mar 2, 2021 11:14:05 GMT -5
We have 1 full size and 1 not quite full size, which is mainly used for drinks. I also keep anything I do not want scarfed up in there (cheeses & such). We have well water, so we go through a LOT of bottled water.
I doubt it has saved us any $, but may have saved some of my sanity.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Mar 2, 2021 11:17:09 GMT -5
Yep the new one we bought has the ice maker in the bottom freezer. The on the door and up top was constantly froze up. Been the same problem on several so went back to basics.
The only thing it saves is trips to town. Since we are rural I don't want to drive 12 miles at night dodging deer to get something I need to complete dinner. So its more for convenience.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Mar 2, 2021 11:22:54 GMT -5
We have 1 full size and 1 not quite full size, which is mainly used for drinks. I also keep anything I do not want scarfed up in there (cheeses & such). We have well water, so we go through a LOT of bottled water. I doubt it has saved us any $, but may have saved some of my sanity. I started doing that last Summer with the kids and it worked great! They don't ever go in the beer fridge outside so I can hide stuff in there.
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Post by alabamagal on Mar 2, 2021 12:47:41 GMT -5
We have a fridge in our kitchen and a mini fridge upstairs in our loft. The mini fridge is strictly for drinks (i.e., bottled water and juice boxes). The kitchen fridge is for everything else (plus some drinks). DH hates our current fridge and I'm not the biggest fan of the side-by-sides anymore, but we aren't ready to get a new one yet. I did see one I liked at Home Depot yesterday, but there's no reason to pull the trigger and get a new one. The current one functions just fine. It makes noise during the ice making process that drives DH nuts sometimes. I just suck at keeping it organized after DH organizes it (mainly the freezer side). Here's what caught my eye: www.homedepot.com/p/Samsung-27-cu-ft-French-Door-Refrigerator-in-Fingerprint-Resistant-Black-Stainless-Steel-RF27T5201SG/312904394I HATE my refrigerator also. It is old freezer on top and white. It came with the house. Seems like we spend half our lives bending over looking for stuff in the back. Doesn’t help that we are tall and getting older. Have to get on my knees, and not easy to get back up. I also want a French door, but when I do that I want to take out cabinet above fridge, which will lead to some other cabinet work, then I’ll need new countertop and floor, so my new fridge could cost $20k.
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Post by alabamagal on Mar 2, 2021 12:59:01 GMT -5
The only time I have felt need for extra refrigerator is at holiday if we have guests. Have resorted to using a drink cooler if needed, especially when everyone drinks different beverages.
Seems like a lot of people are using the extra refrigerator for beverages. Everyone needs to have their own specific beverage and beverages take up a lot of room. Just looked up and it costs average of $20 a month to run fridge and $10 for freezer.
When I had 3 kids at home, we had extra upright freezer, and it was a big help when buying in bulk and stocking up.
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Post by nidena on Mar 2, 2021 14:18:13 GMT -5
When I start conducting workshops in the basement, I will probably get a fridge for complimentary beverages for the attendees.
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Post by tskeeter on Mar 2, 2021 15:46:28 GMT -5
No. I have an upright freezer since my kids eat chicken nuggets by the pound. I also have a wine fridge we use mostly for water. I could use a second fridge when I host Christmas abs thanksgiving but meh. Not worth the money. Many of us from snow country and who lived through the dark ages remember hauling stuff to the garage or screened porch to keep things cold during the holidays. We pretty much had all the cold storage space we wanted.
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Post by swamp on Mar 2, 2021 16:55:26 GMT -5
No. I have an upright freezer since my kids eat chicken nuggets by the pound. I also have a wine fridge we use mostly for water. I could use a second fridge when I host Christmas abs thanksgiving but meh. Not worth the money. Many of us from snow country and who lived through the dark ages remember hauling stuff to the garage or screened porch to keep things cold during the holidays. We pretty much had all the cold storage space we wanted. I have a table on my deck I can use for cold storage. I usually put drinks out there. Food will be consumed by the dog. Any food unsupervised outside is fair game.
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