When I have a dog in the car, that seatbelt’s in actual use, looped into or attached to the dog’s harness. (Not through a collar!) Drastically reduced risk of dog in the windshield, dog in the back of my head, dog inbetween my foot and the brake pedal.
Dog in back seat, also, these days. Most of them aren’t sized for the airbags.
Doesn’t have to be for a dog… works with inanimate loads as well.
True; and may also reduce the possibilty of their flying around the car in the case of a sudden stop or collision. However, I’m less concerned with the possibility that inanimate loads may decide to move around inside the car on their own. ETA: also considerably less concerned, though not entirely unconcerned, about possible damage to the loads.
I’m living in the stone age, here. My fridge is just a fridge, it has no buttons, and can’t make ice or do anything else apart from make things cold.
Ditto mine. And mine’s almost brand new.
Ditto your ditto.
I’ve always been annoyed by the vacuum-seal coverings of Jif peanut butter jars, under the screw-on red lid. I always feel like I’m going to break a fingernail, trying to get a purchase on the tiny little tab they provide to peel it off. You’d think someone would have come up with a better design after all these years.
Stick a knife in it and peel it off from the center, not from the edge by the silly little tabs that are a mean joke. This is true on Jif and so many other packages.
This is the solution for so many annoying packaging problems.
And problems in general.
Have I mentioned my bedroom clock? I chose it because it has one nice feature I liked, + and - buttons for setting the time, so you don’t have to go forward 11 or 23 hours to go back one. So there’s that… but the backlight on the LCD is blue. Black on blue is, of course, horrible contrast for anything you want to be able to read, and blue light also makes it harder to sleep. Plus, the display is very directional, so if you’re below the plane of whatever the clock is sitting on, you can’t read the numbers at all (but can still see the awakening constant blue glow) (that, at least, I was able to “fix” by shimming a wad of paper under the back half of the clock, so it’s aiming downwards).
Yes, I often end up doing that, but it’s still annoying.
We’re having a new fridge delivered today. No ice machine, no water dispenser AND it’s in an old-fashioned white!
The stupid product design with this fridge is the freezer is on the top. I hate that. 90% of the time I’m looking in the fridge not the freezer so having to bend down and crane my neck irritates me. We didn’t have a lot of options. We have a dedicated “refrigerator cave” that is somewhat small as the house was built in 1936. Finding a fridge that will fit in there isn’t easy. Although they did have a model that would fit and had the bottom freezer but it was almost double the price. I wasn’t willing to pay that much more.
You may not like it, but it’s not a stupid design. It’s traditional; it’s cheaper; and it’s more energy efficient. Plus, it’s what I prefer, for various reasons which I could go into in detail if anyone cared.
Maybe - is it still more energy efficient when you account for the extended time I have it open to reach something on the bottom in the back?
That extended time retrieving the bottom back thing can either be with the fridge open for a freezer-on-top model or it can be with the freezer open for a freezer-on-bottom model.
Good bet the latter will lose more cold into the room than will the former. Per use. So it depends on how often you’re into the back bottom of your fridge vs freezer.
I don’t really have any problems reaching anything in my refrigerator because it has multiple shelves. And my bottom freezer is a drawer with sliding baskets, which is a lot easier for me than a top freezer with no shelves ( or maybe one) where I might have to empty almost the whole freezer to get at something.
I saved the shelving from old refrigerators, and found that one shelf fits very nicely in the freezer (which is on top.) If it didn’t, I’m sure I could have bought something that would have done. I very rarely have trouble finding anything in the refrigerator freezer. (The two big chest freezers, when it’s been some time since the last re-organization and update of the freezer list, on the other hand . . . )
Every refrigerator I’ve ever had has had the freezer on the top. I’m used to it. I think I’d find a bottom freezer awkward; but am not sure whether that’s just because I’ve never had one.
ETA: It occurs to me to wonder how much height has to do with this. I’m a bit shy of 5’2". The top freezer is about dead on eye level for me; the top refrigerator shelf not much below it. With the glass shelves in the new refrigerator, I can see nearly everything while moving only my eyes, no bending necessary; though I do have to bend to get things from the bottom shelves and crispers.
Likewise. I’m tall, so the freezer is no problem. I have to get way down for the fridge though. But it works fine for me.
I do NOT like the bottom freezer because it’s a ‘drawer’ that comes out. Everything gets piled on everything else. It’s hard to tell what’s in there.
Top? Bottom? My fridge is Left, Right.Though, my dad’s, the freezer is a drawer on the bottom.
To heck with saving energy. At the age of 70 and being above the average in height, I want lighter items (vegetables, fruits, etc.) at the bottom and the heavier frozen items at the top. We actually have a side-by-side at the moment, but I still put small bags of frozen items at the bottom of the freezer side and heavier frozen meats and cartons of ice cream at the top.
My wife and I have somewhat of an uneasy compromise about where pots, pans, and appliances go in our cabinets. She is 5 feet tall and likes things BELOW the counter. I am over 6 feet and prefer everything in the overhead cabinets. If I had my way, nothing at all would go on the lowest shelf of the lower cabinets (except maybe that stupid bun warmer we got from our in-laws and the yogurt maker that never worked).