RANT!!!
you have been warned..........When we first moved here seven and a half years ago we needed to buy all of our appliances. After much research and deliberation we decided to go to Sears and get a Kenmore 22.4 cu. ft bottom freezer refrigerator. It had the most space for the dollar, got generally positive reviews, and most importantly was rated highly for its durability and longevity.
Flash forward to last year. One day in the summer it stopped working. About $150 worth of food was tossed in the garbage because we didn't realize it until it was too late. Call in the appliance guy, and it turns out that the geniuses who designed the fridge put the on/off switch at the top of the freezer. Which means..... when you stuff the freezer full of food (as is generally the case around here!) you have a pretty good chance of accidentally flipping the switch to 'off''.
Mea culpa, mea culpa. Lesson learned - fridge is all good. Or so we thought......
Fast forward to the late fall when the fridge conked out again. Yet again, it happened overnight, so by the time we realized it in the morning we had to toss yet another $150 worth of food. Called our best friend the appliance guy, and it turns out the three way switch to the compressor blew - which usually is a good indicator that the fridge is toast. He replaced the switch but said that there was a chance the whole compressor could go.
Last Friday night I had some friends over, and I noticed a strange noise coming from the kitchen. Because I'm a lazy SOB I didn't bother to check it out. The next morning while we were having breakfast the noise became more noticeable, and we traced it to.... the fridge. We noticed that the fridge wasn't as cool as it normally is, so we quickly grabbed some coolers and put all our food in the garage. Sure enough, within two hours the fridge wasn't even remotely cold.
Call the Kenmore hot line, and they assure us they'll have a repair guy out on Monday. Monday comes and goes, and no repair guy. Tuesday afternoon and he finally shows up to examine our 7 1/2 year old fridge, only to tell me: "Yep, your compressor's gone."
I blissfully ask: "How much will it cost to replace it?"
"$700 - $1000" was his response.
?@*K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, he then wrote up his bill: $120.
Double @!*&K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So that night while the boys were at Beavers, Chris and I went out to hunt for a fridge. Now bear in mind that we are planning to completely renovate our kitchen in three years. So we didn't want to spend a lot of money (ah hell, we didn't want to spend any money because we thought our bloody fridge would last at least 10 years!) because we know that in 3 years we'll be buying a big, bad-ass, sexy fridge to go with our new kitchen.
Well when you're a family of six, a little 10 cu. ft, or 15 cu ft fridge just isn't going to cut it. And unfortunately, those are the cheap fridges. So after visiting a couple of stores we decided to go with a GE 19 cu. ft. fridge from Home Depot that we managed to get for a pretty good price. We tried to buy the floor model (that's how desperate we were), but they wouldn't let us. Instead we'd have to wait until Saturday which is when they could deliver it.
Guess what? Today is Saturday. Do you think we have a fridge? (if we did, do you think I'd still be writing?!?!) Nope. Home Depot called us to inform us that they don't know where the fridge is, they won't be able to find out where it is until Monday, and the earliest we can possibly get it is Tuesday.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which means at least three more days of trucking out to the garage to get our food.
The one upside to all of this: it's the dead of winter so at least our garage is cold enough to keep the food in. Another upside: I figure I've developed a new diet plan. Since I'm too lazy to go out to the garage and freeze my tuckus off to get food, I gnaw on my finger instead of eating. Hmmmm.... maybe I'm on to something here.....
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