We have one fridge in the house and a small chest-style freezer in the garage. Our second fridge is a small “dorm room” size, and it spends the school year in my classroom cooling juice boxes, sodas, and my lunch. Once school’s out, mini-fridge will come home to live in the garage as a soda cooler.
Same kind of thing here. A second, older fridge that refuses to die will be moving with me to the 4th house since 1991. In the last two, and the next one, it’s been the garage fridge used for beverages for summer parties, and the freezer is a nice overflow.
We have 1 fridge and 3 freezers - 2 chests and an upright, and all quite full. We buy case-lot quite frequently so it comes in very handy.
Can I come live with you? You are describing my dream house.
I would love two fridges, but that wouldn’t work in our small apartment.
For the cottage, we have one fridge and it broke my heart recently that I had to pass up a freebie late 1950s fridge, it worked perferctly but we didn’t have any way (at the moment) to transport it and missed the window of opportunity. It would have been fabulous for the beer storage.
Really, you’re probably better off. Old fridges cost a fortune to run.
You’d be a lot better off paying 3-400 for an el cheapo modern fridge.
We’ve got two. One large-ish, and one small-ish. The smaller one is usually off, unless we run out of space in the big one, which isn’t very often.
The only time the little one is on for extended periods is when someone comes from abroad loaded with chocolates, cheeses and cold cuts…
I have an extra fridge in the Shed, that I’ve sometimes used for parties and cold-beverage storage, but it’s just about always off, so as to not waste energy. But it’s nice to have a spare, my other fridge is nicer but it sometimes develops an excess water problem.
We’ve got two. One large-ish, and one small-ish. The smaller one is usually off, unless we run out of space in the big one, which isn’t very often.
The only time the little one is on for extended periods is when someone comes from abroad loaded with chocolates, cheeses and cold cuts…
Sure. I should let you know in advance that there are a few others living here with me. I have a few children. OK, you may say. They are all in their early 20’s, or are teenagers. *Shudder. *
You know what - it’s my dream house too! And that’s the way I like it!
Makes sense to me.
One fridge per child. 
In reading these posts, a question occurs to me: For those folks who say they shop the warehouse stores to get bargains and put said bargains into deep freezer units/spare fridges, well… if you get 30 lbs of ground beef at a bit of a bargain per pound and bag it out to useable chunks and freeze the chunks and it takes you say, 2 or 3 months to use it all up, have you blown the savings and then some in electricity? I like having the spare fridge/freezer combo. Its about 3 feet from me right now in the office downstairs.
But, do we basically agree, it is incredibly cost-ineffective?
No, not when you take into account the value of your own time if you have to make multiple trips to the store.
we had one growing up in a hour of 5 people.
We have one now. The fridge and the freezer and never half-full. We buy groceries worth $100+ per week.
I think that someone who has 2 fridges would not find it difficult to accomodate 1. Yes, with your current techniques and habits, it would be a problem, but other habits are easy to learn.
Heaven forbid someone actually think about changing a habit so that they can help stop the rolling blackouts.
Growing up we had a fridge and a big-ass freezer. Now I live with just the one fridge while my parents have two fridges and a freezer.
We call my dad Arthur “Two-fridge” Jackson.
We too moved the old one to the garage when we upgraded. It’s great for storing extras for parties when needed but even for everyday I use the bottom for bottled water and drinks and the freezer for any game animals I’m taking to the taxidermist. This can prove a bit too convenient however as the antelope and duck have been in there for over two years.
How could one survive without a “beerator”? :eek: Mine resides in the laundry room. Plus the fridge in the kitchen. I have two freezers in my garage. I live alone and both freezers are full. Or, as I like to explain it, the smaller freezer is where I store the emergency ice cream. If there is no ice cream in the kitchen fridge freezer compartment, I am secure in the knowledge that there’s some in the little freezer. One can never have too much ice cream after all. Or toilet paper. But I don’t refrigerate or freeze toilet paper. Thought y’all would like to know that.
Maybe someday scientists will find some bizarre correlation between the two.
I have a fridge and a separate freezer. I like to stock up on meat and TV dinners when I find a good deal at the grocery store.
When I was growing up we had 2 washers and 2 dryers because there were 9 of us kids in the family.
Allow me to introduce you to the syndrome known as “lactose intolerance”
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It shouldn’t, unless you’re pumping regular air into it. Do you not have CO2?
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Nope, it’s a CO2 system. My experiences are similar to http://www.alabev.com/draught.htm
The bestest beer I’ve purchased was from a local brewer (Rockbottom Brewery in Denver, Co.) Nicest thing about it is that it’s available in 5 gallon kegs, small enough to finish before it turns.