• halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works
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    19 days ago

    My husband bought this house from the 1940s that we currently live in about 11 years ago, and it came with a fridge from the 90s. Its not pretty, but it worked then and it still works now, so we just never bought a new fridge.

    Never really made sense to us to drop hundreds (thousands?) of dollars on a new fridge just for the aesthetics, so we didn’t. Even tho we’ll get some comments from our moms about it every now and then…

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      19 days ago

      Make sure you clean the dust off the coils (usually on the back) once in a while and make sure it’s not too close to the wall. It helps the compressor not run as much, increasing its life.

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        19 days ago

        Crap. Haven’t looked at mine in some time. Welp, fixing the door on it tonight, guess that’s my time to check. Thanks for the reminder!