The temptation is so great! We just bought a new house, and I love the home! And though the home is much larger than our old home, the previous owners chose a really small fridge so that it didn't stick out too far and impeded the flow of traffic into the kitchen. I can see that. But they bought a side by side and the freezer is so small you can't fit a frozen pizza in it, or even a box half its size. And the fridge? There's no way a turkey's going in there. And we host two full Thanksgivings and one full Christmas.
So I want a fridge to put in the garage! I'm close to saying I actually need a fridge.
But...
We will just pay off the credit cards this coming Friday. Finally! I do not want to put more on the card than we can pay off by next Friday and Christmas is coming up with no money yet put aside. All these years it's been about the credit cards.
I need some encouragement to not buy a new fridge. We have a ridiculously large freezer in the basement that the owners left. It's the fridge I lament.
Perhaps some tips on how to accommodate the holidays with my tiny fridge?
Kristen on not buying a fridge
November 9th, 2009 at 09:46 pm
November 9th, 2009 at 09:54 pm 1257803651
Lets see...buy turkey breast, rather than the full turkey to save space. Ask others to bring dishes and serve upon arrival. Get out the coolers, add ice to store dishes until serving. At Christmas, we can usually set things outside (usually beverages) to keep cool. Depends on where you live!
Good luck!
November 9th, 2009 at 09:58 pm 1257803925
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November 9th, 2009 at 10:22 pm 1257805363
The last used Fridge I bought for the garage was $50. Did the job! Too cheap to sweat the electricity, probably. Bought that one before Energy Star was invented, probably.
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November 10th, 2009 at 03:54 pm 1257868450
My grandmother always bought no freezer fridges (they have a small square enough for ice), because they had three large freezers. Yeah family of ten children.
I have a side by side but I think it is small even though it was the largest they had, I wanted to go french door with freezer below but we did white and they did not have the water/ice feature in white as they were just coming out so it was way too spendy.
November 11th, 2009 at 02:08 pm 1257948519
What I'd like is to get a cheap $300-$500 standard, top-freezer fridge to put in the garage. We do have a mammoth freezer in the basement, but it's ancient and not energy efficient and it's not conveniently located. If we had a fridge/freezer in the garage, I could put daily items in it, like, I don't know...vegetables! LOL! Our current fridge-freezer is so small!
But, we need to pay for Christmas first...