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new fridge?

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So in mid-december one morning I got up to make coffee and all the dairy in the fridge had gone off, prematurely.

“maybe the door wasn’t properly shut,” I mused.

“The fridge is dying,” Dude said, and immediately began researching new refrigerators. Now, the fridge is fairly elderly, and sings to itself and pees on the floor, and in several ways has begun to worry us, but I thought this was premature. However, I could not deny that it would be better to replace it while it was still mostly working, rather than waiting until it was an emergency, especially given how difficult it is to get refrigerators in the current supply-chain crisis fuckery of the pandemic.

So we went to a local appliance shop, in what remains our sole real outing of this pandemic more or less (we went to a restaurant and dined on the patio in August, with Dude’s mom; that’s the only other thing we’ve done since March) – I called it a “date” and was very excited– and we picked out a very fancy (to me) fridge, and Dude had already measured all of the doors and such and saved us from buying an appliance that wouldn’t fit into our house.

So we put down a deposit, and they said, “We will call you when we know when this item comes in.” And they cautioned us that it might well be February. The salesman showed us his stack of backorders, and clipped ours to the bottom. Fair enough!

A month went by. This is good, we said, we’ll have time to clean out the kitchen, we said, we’ll tidy the entranceway too, no problem, plenty of time. And then three days ago they called and said “How’s Saturday?”

We pushed them off to Monday, at least, but I spent yesterday cleaning the entryway and clearing off the sideboard in the kitchen (in case it has to be moved to make room), while Dude cleaned off the top of the fridge and cleaned out the cabinet they’ll have to get access to in order to plumb in the ice maker.

(Yeah we didn’t get one of those fridges with a water tap because our tap water is fine but they all have ice makers and I said I wanted the ice maker to actually work so it’s not just a waste of space. I have a weird OCD thing about our ice cube trays but it’s mild enough that I know if we had an ice maker I’d just stop worrying, and it’d be one less thing that I get hung up on. So we’re getting the ice maker actually plumbed in.)

So anyway today we’re getting a fridge delivered, the old one taken away, and then separately a bunch of guys are going to come do some plumbing work. Well, why not! We can be fancy and middle-class.

So incidentally we’d been trying to guess how old our fridge was. I guessed 1980. While cleaning off the top, Dude found the original owner’s manual and bill of sale.

1973.

Also the fridge cost $383 in 1973 which is something over $2k in today’s money. This new fridge, with French doors, a built-in icemaker, a pull-out drawer freezer, and a thousand adjustable shelves and drawers, was something under $1500.

We need to redo the entire kitchen as well but we’re not ready for that. So we’re just going to have to get the kitchen sort of built around this new fridge. Whatever, right? We’ll figure it out. (Your picture was not posted)

on fridges

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deputychairman https://deputychairman.tumblr.com/ said: Very interested in comparative fridge prices! Did you get a fairly-fancy one, or is that price quite standard? Bc when we had to replace ours 6 ish years ago it was more like €500 and sure you can always spend more but I just couldn’t think of anything extra a fridge could do that mine doesn’t (it’s a box that’s cold! What else do people want from it???) to justify the extra. Having said that, an ice maker is an unheard of luxury here but I can see it would be rather nice!

Soo…. around here you can get a cheapish fridge, from $500-1000, which has the fridge on the bottom, the freezer on top with a separate door, and may or may not have a plumbed-in icemaker in the freezer. Those are optional, you can still get ones without.

A step up, you can get ones with the freezer on the bottom, which is great in terms of ergonomics, and generally lets you store more stuff in there. (Having the freezer drawer pull out is enormously useful at letting you pile things into it and yet not lose track of what’s down there.) It is impossible to find one of these that does not have an ice maker built in; you don’t have to hook them up, and much of the time people don’t– my mom has one of these and just literally could not run water to it given the layout of her kitchen, so she just keeps her ice cube trays in the ice machine bit, and it works fine. These also can have either the normal swinging door or French doors; we got one with French doors because it’s slightly more energy-efficient and ergonomic and fits our kitchen better. These are around $1,000-$5,000 depending largely on features that seem somewhat opaque to me, some of which include size, and my smallish doorways constrained me on that one a fair bit, but also the fact that it’s just the two of us so we don’t need a fridge we can fit a whole hog carcass into. Many, but not all, of these will have a dispenser set into the door, so that you can dispense ice from the machine straight into your cup, or dispense chilled water into a cup.

Somewhere in here are side-by-side fridges, where the freezer and fridge are next to one another vertically. That, to me, seems the least space-efficient option, but Dude’s mom has one and likes it quite a bit. Hers has the water dispenser in the door, and that broke after… well, Dude’s dad installed it, and he died in ‘03, so it did have a pretty good run. Fridge still works fine, though.

More expensive fridges will additionally have like… smart fridge shit. Ours has a sticker that tells us there’s an app we can get, but the app doesn’t actually interface with the fridge in any way, which is what I want– dumb fridge only please I do not want my fridge to be part of a bot army DDOS’ing the Dept of Defense. Thanks!

I sort of pouted that I couldn’t get one without an ice machine– it takes up space!!– and said if we had the machine we were gonna hook it up, so we are. $150 to hook it up and probably it will break, but listen, I can keep the empty ice cube trays in my pantry closet in the basement until it breaks and enjoy the bougie while it lasts.

anelith51 https://anelith51.tumblr.com/ said: This gives me hope that our fridge (ordered in November) might show up soon!

Ha I hope so!!! Good luck!!!

Ours still hasn’t shown up and I have the old fridge cleared out into coolers in the driveway (it’s 1 degree above freezing out) but I have faith. Dude even has the mop out, so we can clean the floor where the old fridge was…. (Your picture was not posted)

"The less love you put into things the more they resemble one another. The same goes for stories,...

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“The less love you put into things the more they resemble one another. The same goes for stories, everyone knows them by heart, but when someone tells them with love, I don’t know, they seem new…that’s what I think anyway.”

• Andrés Neuman, Traveller of the Century (trans. Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia) (Your picture was not posted)

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astroloquacious https://astroloquacious.tumblr.com/ said:

                           So if we’re moving towards the Everybody

Went to Lunch and Felt Better point, does that mean the point we’re currently at is Why Don’t You Have a Piece of Bread and Maybe You’ll Calm Down? 🤔

Keira, have a snickers. you’re not yourself when you’re hungry. (Your picture was not posted)

Big doings in the household: replaced the old fridge that used...

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Big doings in the household: replaced the old fridge that used to sing to Chita and pee on the floor with a new fridge that is much quieter and drier and hopefully more energy-efficient,but the built in ice machine (! fancy) still sings songs to Chita so we’re okay here. (at Tonawanda , New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKNRCQ3BD31/?igshid=iryi5ktnt2xy (Your picture was not posted)

fingerloop braids!

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tora42 https://tora42.tumblr.com/post/640608902080282624/fingerloop-braids :

bomberqueen17 https://tmblr.co/mEi4sKUjTkzs4ila4vEdnuA​ mentioned fingerloop braids in her witcher fic “An Ideal Man”, https://archiveofourown.org/works/26847148/chapters/65502253 (keira/lambert and everyone is queer and no one is cis and it’s very sweet and lovely) and i was like what the hell are those? and found this tutorial and it turns out it’s exactly what it says on the tin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=GQpEcGfv-rY

they’re braids you make with your fingers out of loops. so i tried it twice and turns out that other than all the dropping of the loops i did it’s kind of simple?? so here’s my end results.

i have zero idea what to do with them but they look neat and i’m really happy with the ace pride one because i mostly managed to keep the tension the same throughout. the beginning of the red one is super loose because i made the yarn too long and couldn’t get it tight enough [image: image]

HA my nefarious plan to spread knowledge of obscure ancient fibercrafts is going swimmingly!!!!

So sometimes you’d have two-person braids and the reason was that the strings were so long that your second person would have a hand free and would use a stick to push the knots tight, like beating a piece of weaving. (Sometimes it would also be because there were more loops than would fit on one person’s hands.)

anyway idk what i’m going to do with the fingerloop braids I made to teach myself either, but– solidarity!!

(they do make decent like lanyards and stuff depending what you made them from. I did mine from embroidery floss and still haven’t worked out what my plan is, LOL.) (Your picture was not posted)