Dear friends and family. I am at the end of my rope. I paid a lot of money for that refrigerator, hoping it would serve our needs for a long time. You hate it. You abuse it. I’m putting my foot down.
These will be the new rules.
Don’t put stuff on a shelf and shove it in to make room. Find a place where it actually fits.
If the door doesn’t close, there’s a god damn reason why. Try a little analysis.
If it leaks, clean it up when you see it. If it sticks when you try to remove, there’s a reason why. Try a little analysis .
Placing something half on the shelf doesn’t work. It falls when the next person opens the damn door. But you knew that right?
If it’s green, it’s probably bad. You’d have noticed it if you didn’t violate rule #1.
Same thing if it stinks.
Don’t put the damn pizza box in the refer. Take the pizza out and wrap it.
Milk is dead one month after the expiration date. Dump it. Otherwise, I might use it.
How many 1/2 full jars of pickles do you think we need in this damn family?
Yes, it pisses me off when I see 6 water bottles where my god damn beer goes.
The Ice dispenser doesn’t work with bags of frozen veggies in it. I know space is at a premium, but for Christ’s sake., I like ice sometimes to put on the headache you give me.
One thing I do not miss about work is the communal refrigerator. Apparently otherwise grown-up people believe in the FridgeFairy, so they don’t bother wiping up spilled sodas or tossing yogurts that are becoming sentient…
Fortunately, there are just two of us in the household with opposable thumbs and since I do most of the cooking, I tend to control the fridge. Unfortunately, I also occasionally lose track of little containers… but I eventually corral them and dispose of them.
I saw this on gizmodo a few days ago … if Electrolux puts it into production if you have the space add this in perhaps? I think it is a fantastic idea.
Or you could make everybody get their own cube fridge for personal stuff and keep it in their bedrooms. We used one as the base cabinet for a coffee maker in the living room for years. Held the cream for coffee, containers of cut up veggies and fruit for snacks, and we kept icy pops in the microscopic freezer.
9a. Do we really, really need 6 started bottles/jars of mustard and other condiments in there? Kindly finish the old one before opening a new one. If no one likes it and we won’t use it before it starts doing quadratic equations, throw it away.
11 is easy: next time you can’t ice your headache because the ice tray is occupied, just slap a bag of frozen veggies on your forehead instead
I don’t know if this happens in your house (but I suspect it does) - there isn’t some magic that makes one person able to see what is in the fridge so that everyone else has to just ask them - use your own eyes, and if you have to, move stuff aside and LOOK in there! I swear, it’s not magic! Most containers have a label on them that tells you what’s in it; if not, open the container and look inside.
Sort of reasonable in a non-binding way though someone’s water would seem to have as much right as your beer and pizza usually does not stick around long and re-wrapping it is wasteful and messy, so I’m all for just putting the box in the fridge, especially if the pizza was ordered late light - you want to make things easy at that hour, so just put the box in the fridge, no mess, no looking for wrapping material.
When we bought a new fridge I was going to donate our old one that still worked, but was advised to use it as a back-up in the laundry room. I can’t even imagine operating w/o two now. Is that an option for you? A 2nd is perfect for excess drinks and freezer items, especially since you can then turn that one way down to get yer brewskies really, really cold.
When we lived in Ohio we had two and I loved it. I wasn’t sure how we could cope with just one again, but we’re managing. Someday when we have our own house we’ll have two again.
We used to have 2 fridges, plus a chest freezer, but we seem to be managing just fine with one now. It would help if the freezer side was a bit bigger, but I was always pretty good at Tetris, so I can load it efficiently.
Honestly I’m not sure how it works, but whenever I spill something I just leave it there and when I come back later it’s gone. I’ll have to ask my wife where she got it.
Probably the same place as automatic toilet paper roll filler.
