Comments on: You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone

By: SandyCalico

SandyCalico — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:28:01 +0000

Hi, I found you at the BMB carnival.
Poor you, we take our fridges for granted!!
Twitter: sandycalico

By: grit

grit — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:30:24 +0000

well i laughed heartily at your misfortune, so i am sorry for that, but i laugh in despairing sympathy too. our oven door fell off c. 2005 and everytime now i want to use this delightful piece of kitchen ware i have to wedge it into place and kick it shut. once, taking to the woods with a noose seemed like a viable solution to this problem yet somehow we learn to live with these misfortunes, work round them, laugh, and keep going. that is the amazing bit.

By: all grown up

all grown up — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:02:40 +0000

Oh my word, our fridge freezer packed up just last week! We knew it was a bit fishy when the milk was going off so quick….it was slowly dying. We have a glorious new monstrosity now, I can’t even reach the top shelf! It’s huge and I *heart* it madly. Thanks for your comments on my blog, can’t believe you kept going back for more after 3 bad births!! What is the age gap between your children? You must really love kids

By: Ginger

Ginger — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:12:08 +0000

Now that I’ve read this I think I’ll go kiss my air conditioning unit. I once bought a fridge on a whim, necessitated when all the shelves in the door came down at once (tape doesn’t last forever) and having met all my condiments face to face, I decided to get new condiments and a new fridge, delivered the next day on a deal with the salesman that he could have the sale as long as I had the fridge the next day, no matter what.

I am sorry for your pain but you did make me laugh!

By: Coding Mamma

Coding Mamma — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:06:26 +0000

Everything packs up in our house when the weather turns. The heating (and hot water) stops working whenever there’s a change in water pressure. The dishwasher packs up when it gets hot. The fridge takes 3 or 4 days to recognise that it’s hot outside and so needs to be colder itself. The phones packed up completely at the same time, for no apparent reason. People kept phoning and we would say ‘Hello’ and maybe get three words out before the handset would decide it had no charge, despite sitting on its charger for 3 days.

But luckily for us we haven’t had to deal with a completely non-functioning fridge for a long time. Hope yours is fixed soon.

By: WhyMommy

WhyMommy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:46:29 +0000

Ack! Sorry to hear about the fridge!

Susan

By: Rosie Scribble

Rosie Scribble — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:27:35 +0000

I was amazed to read your post as we have just been through exactly the same thing. Our fridge packed up and died and we were without a new one for two weeks. Made me wonder how on earth people lived in the days before fridges were invented. We really stuggled and had to become inventive with packet food, which isn’t easy in the best of times!

By: mumof4

mumof4 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:45:38 +0000

Yes, I agree – I will now adore mine and keep the kids away from the door. I would also have wanted to kill the repair man.

I nearly thumped the washing machine repair man once, as he didn’t seem to CARE that I was drowning in laundry from the kids…..

I still admire how you are coping with all this and your husband over here.

Sending best wishes……

By: ella

ella — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:16:26 +0000

Honestly, you’d miss it if you didn’t have it. Although getting a new fridge means not having to clean out a filthy old one

By: angelfeet

angelfeet — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:13:47 +0000

I shall go to kiss and hug my fridge right now, as I have clearly taken it for granted for too long.