The hunt for a new refrigerator continues, and just as I had finished extensive research and narrowed the field down to this one…
The husband decided he wanted to go shopping and check them out for himself.
Granted, it’s a large purchase and I wanted him to like what I chose.
But ya know what?
I took him to the store and showed him my choice, which he walked right by and made a bee line for:
No.
And again? No.
Aside from the jaw dropping price tag? There’s no way I’m going to buy a refrigerator that tells me I’m out of cucumbers or what to cook for dinner.
Christ, do we really need “smart” appliances?
The day I’m too old and doddering to realize I’m out of cucumbers? I’ll stop cooking altogether.
In case you’re unfamiliar, there’s basically a computer on the door. You can make grocery lists, find recipes with the ingredients it knows are in there, and it will even link with your phone so you can check your expiration dates from remote locations.
Among other useful things….
Geesh.
All I want is cold food and ice.
Great. Scratch the ice.
So we shopped, and shopped, and shopped.
And the husband said that one’s shelves were too small, that one’s lights were too bright, that one’s drawers were too deep…. etc etc etc.
To which, after grueling 5 hours I said..
“Come on Goldilocks!”
So he picked one.
And though it’s almost exactly the same as the one I’d picked a week earlier?
This one is $700 more.
So, men?
I don’t want to hear you say your wives are spending all the money.
My husband can out shop the best of ’em.
A computer screen in a refrigerator is about as useful as putting a clock in an anvil…
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With my luck it would malfunction and yell obscenities in Howard Stern’s voice every time I ran out of eggplants.
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I always put my clocks on an anvil – before hitting them with a large hammer.
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Oh, I almost forgot: My son showed me that aging app. When he aged his own photograph, he looked a lot like my brother does now. When he “younged” me, it didn’t look anything like the young me.
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I younged my husband and it was eerily similar, mine was less so.
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So which one did you buy? I can’t believe your husband wouldn’t want to save $700…
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Goldilocks had to find just the right lighting, and just the right drawer depth and wanted, are you ready? Turbo ice… all which cost extra. Turbo ice! God help me, we REALLY needed that!
It’s a GE Profile, black stainless steel finish.
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We have to buy a new fridge. It will not be smart. My message to the refrigerator is 100% “you have one job!”
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And yet the new ones rarely do it well…. or long.
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I know – 7 years is considered a good average life? WT…?
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Planned obsolescence. It’s ridiculous…. and damned annoying!
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Not to mention expensive.
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Make sure to check reviews on the fridge. We didn’t, sure wish we had. At least the service guy knew exactly what was wrong when we had no ice 8 days after buying the fridge, and weeks, and 6 mths and oh yeah half the time we run out of ice before we run out of day, that they say is because we are in Az and it’s hot outside???? Hubby wisely told the guy he better leave quick because he wasn’t sure how long he could hold me….Apparently that repairman has refused to ever take another service call to our house. Wuss, I didn’t even touch him, heck I didn’t even yell. I was so stupefied by his explanation of the problem I was speechless. LOL
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Well geesh, everyone knows ice and Arizona don’t mix. What were you thinking?
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And yes, I checked. It consistently gets 4 1/2 out of 5 stars in reviews.
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One of the internet companies does a lot of radio ads essentially mocking this whole “smart house” phenomenon… although it’s just to try to get you to buy their service because it doesn’t go down. Why even get these things altogether. I mean, I refuse to even get a smart phone. The first time I couldn’t get ice because my fridge caught a porn virus, it’s getting thrown out on the street…
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I love my iPhone, but draw the line at refrigerator porno!
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Oh deal lawd, say it isn’t so River? Your hubs spent more money on a fridge than you would have? Hmm, maybe they are targeting a certain shopper with these “smart fridges?” Who knows, but I’m with Evil, no smart fridge for me, I can do with a plain old regular appliance that I don’t have to tolerate any computer snarkiness from, I have a cat for that.
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My husband always spends more than I would when we shop together. Always!
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Just thinking about buying a new frig makes me anxious. We survived buying a new dishwasher a few years ago. Too many doodads. Too many features. I have no doubt that shopping for a frig with screens on it would do me in.
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My husbands loves options… on everything. As far as I’m concerned it’s just more than can break down.
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Yep. I agree with you.
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What was the difference between the two besides the $700??
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Angled lighting. Glass freezer shelves. Turbo ice. Rapid food chill. Humidity controlled produce drawers. Something else we didn’t need that I don’t remember…
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Hope you got the one YOU picked out since YOU use it the most…………………
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I like the one he picked… just wouldn’t have gone for all the extra options. Ka-Ching!
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$700 more than an already heart stopping price? Yikes!!
Dast I even want to ask?
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Probably not.
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I don’t know what it is, but I’ve lived with men who are so hesitant to spend a single dollar on home appliances, but as soon there’s a “gadget factor” involved, they turn into Daddy Warbucks. I have one requirement of a refrigerator. It needs to keep stuff cold. Anything beyond that? Sorcery. The bad kind.
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If there are any extra add ones and options… to anything? My husband has to have them.
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Oh, it has to be all the bells and whistles or no deal.
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Yes. And usually size matters…
But doesn’t it always with men?
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I have a Google Assistant speaker thingy… ?! I won’t even plug it in – I don’t need friggin Skynet listening in to my conversations, thank you very much. I sure as heck don’t want my FRIDGE listening in!
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Ooh, I just found out you can’t use H-E-double hockey sticks in here. Down with Censorship!
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Really? I use it all the time…
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When I used it instead of “heck” it said NO. H-E-Double-L NO. Maybe you can use it in a post but not a comment? It didn’t tell me why my comment was denied – but when I changed that word it went through.
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Weird because I just commented Hell and had no problem.
Hell.
Hell!
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I love how people complain about invasion of privacy while walking around with a GPS tracker on their phone and putting an electronic listening device in their bedrooms. I’m guilty of the tracker but Hell no to Alexa and her brethren.
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My cheap fridge already talks to me in the middle of the night.
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It’s the ice cream isn’t it?
That stuff is diabolical…..
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…and pickles, and jam, and noodles, and…
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I have two friends with the smart fridge. One has already had repairmen out twice. They both bought them in 2013, so… any day now….
My husband is also a good shopper. It’s like he pretends to hate it tho. It’s part of the grumpy exterior facade, I believe.
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2013? Yup… let the countdown begin.
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“Hi, River. My name is Frig. No, I won’t open the freezer door right now. I know what you’re after and you may not have ice cream at 8 PM. It’s bad for you. I love you River and know what’s best for you. Here, have an ice cube. Yes. Just one. I’ll see you in the morning. Now go to bed. Sweet dreams. I’ll keep watch over you.”
Yep, no smart appliances (other than my phone) for me. Glad you found a new refrigerator, though. ~ Mona
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Omg… I never thought of that. The damn thing would hold all the good stuff hostage and make me eat kale.
Noooooo!
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“The day I’m too old and doddering to realize I’m out of cucumbers? I’ll stop cooking altogether.’ Mmmmmm–maybe hubbie (or world) is trying to tell you something????
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I’m not there yet!
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At least this fridge biz had got you lots of comments — 20 more (so far) than the number of Likes….so, many commenters either don’t Like this post, or Like it but don’t want to go on record as liking it (or, like me, can’t get the Like button to work half the time). Whatever the reason, you’re apparently too funny for your own good, so try to be as unfunny as me, and readers will feel sorry for you and Like you like they Like me.
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I like this comment on the subject of liking, although I don’t think I’d like being liked for trying to be like you. I like being liked for being like me. As for not liking refrigerators? I don’t like them very much right now either.
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Thanks for the Like, as I’m not sure my rather snarky comment deserved it — but Like they say, “You can’t win them all.”
Speaking of Like, I’ve discovered that the only way I can get a Like to ‘take’ on comments to your posts (and the posts of a few other bloggers I follow) is to make a new comment. So, now that I’ve done so, I’ll ‘hit’ Like on your comment, and (assuming the WordPress gods are with me), it should take.
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That’s an awful lot of trouble for a like.
But I like that you like me enough to bother!
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