Okay, work with me here.
We have four refrigerators. Well, five, if you count the mini down in the basement by the game table, but of full-size fridges we have four.
One is inside the kitchen. That’s the main one we live out of. It’s a side-by-side, a scosh too big for the space (we bought it because we needed something larger, but overdid it). We’ve been pretty pleased by it.
The other three are in the garage, and are all former fridges of mine and/or Margies.
- On the left, closest to the door, is the drink fridge (Margie’s old fridge). The main space is used for beer and soft drinks for our selves and various guests.
- The backup fridge, to its right, was our previous interior one, and it’s used for ongoing overflow from inside. Staples that need cooling but not immediate, easy, at-hand access go in here — extra milk, extra cheese, large left-overs, etc.
- The right-hand fridge was my old one, but got dubbed the “Alpha Fridge” as Margie used it as overflow for church class meals she was cooking. As such, it was pretty valuable, but currently the cooler space is empty.
All three of the garage fridges have packed-full freezers.
Now, on the face of it, this situation is ridiculous. We’re doubtless paying through the nose for these older (20-year-old at the oldest) fridges, and, as bad, they take up a huge amount of space in our already-crowded garage (though the tops of them are well-stacked with stuff).
What I’d like to do is …
- Get rid of the Alpha fridge. That will make things tight on those few times a year when we could really use the extra space, but it’s a waste for the rest of the year. That means going through a lot of freezer stuff, which we’ve already begun doing.
Once that space is free, we can move back the pallette for the kitty pillow (where Indy sleeps during the winter), and have some space to put up the tricycle and scooter.
- Consolidate the drink fridge space so that drinks only take up half the room they currently do. I think we can do that without making folks feel unwelcome.
Use the freed space for further “food” overflow.
- Now things get speculative. Margie would really like a full-size freezer. As things stand, that would seriously impact our overflow fridge space. Of course, we could get rid of the current drink fridge, move the drinks into the bottom shelf of the current backup fridge, and still be in pretty good shape.
Or … we saw at Great Indoors on Saturday some “big freezer little cooler” units, where the main body is freezer but there’s a short refrigerator section above, which would be perfect for drinks and the like. Hmmm.
- Of course, Margie also saw a nice fridge (freezer-bottom french-door top) that she liked, too, which would … um … potentially give us five fridges. Unless you count the one in the basement, in which case it would be six …
Just send money …