Food Wasters

I'm not happy to say that we're currently wasting food. It's not by choice. About a week or so ago, our refrigerator started making this odd noise. It would click, make a buzzing noise for a few seconds and then click off. Well, yesterday morning our freezer decided it was tired and started thawing stuff out. Not good. It didn't take long for the refrigerator part to slowly get warm. Ugh. So, we found a place that would come and diagnose the problem. After looking at the darn thing for about 5 minutes, he said it was the compressor and quoted us $912 to fix. WHAT?!? Are you kidding me?? When we bought this house last summer we negotiated with the sellers to leave the fridge. It looked pretty new and it has the freezer on the bottom. It's a nice fridge. I guess we're lucky that we didn't have to buy one at first.

Oh, I forgot to mention that the guy messed up our floor. Yes it's linoleum but now it's got a pretty tear right in front. I wanted to call the guy back to tell him, but Ant said no. How were we going to prove that he did it? He was already gone (by about 3 minutes) when we noticed it. Sucks! So, we're out $79 for having the guy come tell us what's wrong and now have a messed up floor. I guess someone's going to be getting a not-so-nice review on the angieslist.com website!

So, Ant and I decided that we could go to a scratch and dent place and hopefully find a good deal on one there. Off we went! After looking at a few places, we finally found one. We also found out that to buy a compressor would cost around $300. I understand charging for labor, but to charge $600 for it? That's absurd! The guy we bought our new refrigerator from gave us a good deal. Since we offered to pay with cash, he didn't charge us any sales tax. We were hoping he'd knock off a little more, but oh well. It was a good deal and it's about 6 cubic feet bigger than the one we have now. It doesn't have the freezer on the bottom, it's got the side by side doors. That's okay. Hopefully we'll like it in the house.

It looks like after tomorrow I've got some grocery shopping to do. Too bad that a half gallon of milk and a brand new unopened gallon of chocolate soy milk got to get poured down the drain. Such a waste!

The important question to this story is this: Why does the word fridge have a "d" in it but refrigerator does not? Hmm...