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Aug 18, 2026 6:54 PM
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Procrastinator57
If only techromancers were still common.
mirrorz
My garage fridge is my old kitchen fridge. I've had it for 27years but it was my parents' old fridge before that. The new fridge my wife bought in 2021 has crapped out twice now.
UmmonPrime
I feel this. Garage fridge has been going strong for 15 years now. Don't know how we would prep for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners without it. It's been a champ.
shyriath
*bagpipes play Amazing Grace*
shivacat
My deepest sympathies.
tolson9
When I bought my house, I was short on cash and bought the cheapest Kenmore refrigerator in the store...temporary I thought, that was 2012 and I still got it!
albakSPrince
mom and dad bought a fridge from Montgomery Wards. It was still running when I moved back in to help with her care. It ran another 5 or 6 years. It outlasted the company itself.
EvilEmperorXurg
O7
Zetor
Dad: "We should get a new fridge to save on electricity "
Also dad:
NZSheeps
Garage electricity doesn't count
AbsoluteKilljoy
F for fridge
mijour1
Turn it upside down for a day It will start working again
powwerbottom
Or like....2 wives
LeifHietala
Listen, I had a fridge in my office that I grabbed from a thrift store about 25 years ago. I gave it a few tweaks and it worked great. Last summer the new guy tried to hasten defrosting with a screwdriver, punctured the refrigerant coil and that was that. It was a Coldspot, a brand Sears stopped using in 1974, so this thing wasn't just some plain white box. It was a survivor.
You killed an old friend, Mike.
UptightBanana
They still made Coldspots at least to 1995.
LeifHietala
Huh. Well, not mine. By its model number it was early 70s.
TheMurderousCricket
With my three...
Good companions...
My rifle, pony and fridge...
futhor
Dean Martin would be a good name for a garage fridge
jonnywad
My Soldier fridge is still kicking it. I got it in 1989, one of the old Westing House round ones. still chillin.
MisterLemons
Send it out with some tannerite and bagpipes
icantbelieveistillhavetoprotestthiscrap
TheMindEntropic
https://imgur.com/O7OUWHx
EternallyNomadic
Men will wax poetic about a fridge, then yell at their wives, children, and strangers in public. Truly should not be in charge of literally anything.
TheMindEntropic
IT IS SO REFRESHING TO FIND SOMEONE ELSE MAKING CRITICISMS LIKE THIS <3
NorwegianSheepknuller
Unlike his son that fridge was real dependable.
Pfffftit
Like a cowboy
southflhitnrun
I love my Son, but he never kept 10,000 beers cold for me.
TheMindEntropic
https://imgur.com/yBbacwK
nickswoop
Used to have a shared house between family members, it had a fridge still working from 1960. A distant uncle by marriage threw it away because it was "old and rusty". That thing would keep drinks so cold they'd hurt your hands.
Normandingo
Now where are you going to hide those two wives?
therandombagofmeat
When the coffee pot I had for 15 years died, I felt like I was losing a friend.
huffnpuff72
3 trucks and 2 wives? Im gonna guess a 'proper funeral' means taking it down the back and filling it with explosives.
TheMindEntropic
Tell me you're old enough to be a boomer without telling me you're old enough to be a boomer.
aerodynamit3
That's barely 6 beers per week, every week, for 36 years.
backrideup9
6 cold beers. Maybe dad has a real problem and was drinking the other 6 warm right from the store.
MadamPuddifoot
Not everyone is am alcoholic, greg.
Pfffftit
Not with that attitude
HamSlamwich
Ok but if your buddies come over with
two 12 packs, zero of those beers are making it to the garage fridge.
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
Why do you think he went through two wives?
GrandmasterSpank
And thats just the garage fridge, not even counting the kitchen fridge nor the bedroom fridge nor the truckfridge.
Racealistic
I wish i had space for a bedroom fridge :D
GrandmasterSpank
I had a bedroom fridge for a while but I forgot those things make a shitton of noise during the night so I moved it back to the garage :(
Plaird
Not to mention work fridges 1-6
ButtscratchMcPherson
My basement freezer is a 38 year-old Norge upright that my dad bought in Minnesota brand new. It traveled to Florida with us, then to Virginia, then two small moves in Virginia to end up at my house. Died last year, the condenser circulating fan. Couldn't find a valid manual or parts number. Finally got a new fan that fit after several tries. Working great like a champ.
spiderjohn36
I sold my home early in 2025. Bought it in 2007. Still had the same Whirlpool fridge and it was still working like a champ.
FormerlySable
My Amana is 22 years old and still working just fine.
spiderjohn36
I am 99% my parents' long time "garage fridge" was an Amana. I think they ended up giving it away when they moved out of their house in 2002/2003ish. I know at that point it was at least 15-16 years old.
FormerlySable
My mother bought an Amana in 1975 that lasted at least 25 years.
tavor1845
Shoulda brought that bitch with you
ps238principal
There's a reason why whenever you say you're thinking about replacing your current fridge, most people ask, "How old is the one you have?"
imnotinthewitnessprotectionprogram
Signs you grew up in the Midwest. How much deer meat can that hold???
cttypo
Fridge was in its way out. Put on the porch. Just replaced the fridge that took its place, 12 years (10 year warranty😡). Porch fridge kept us from losing everything. 🤷♂️
Shaodyn
This is going to sound like a Boomer comment, but...they really don't make fridges like they used to. Most new appliances are either over-complicated and hard to use, cheap junk made to break, or both.
SumOneElse
My parents basement fridge (bought by Mom in the early 70s) has outlasted 3 or 4 new kitchen fridges after being demoted to a secondary location. (It was sent down for a combination of being a smaller 'apartment' fridge, and because the best that can be said about its maroon finish is that it's not the puke green that was also inexplicably popular at the time.)
SumOneElse
It's in shabby shape with the door shelves being unusable due to brittle plastic failure; but it still works for holiday and buying like they still have 6 people living in the house overfilling of the main one.
MyMixtapeMeltsSteelBeams
It's undeniably true though. Stuff was built to last and has been enshittified over time. It's not unlike how Netflix used to be an incredible service that was more than worth its cheap cost. It just happened to appliances and hardware over a much larger period of time
doctorId
Consumer products is one of those topics where "things were better back in the day" is actually largely true.
PunnyTiger
planned obsolecence should be just cause to sieve the company, retool, rebrand and make decent products with a big fat zero going to the shareholders. if you wanted to keep your company value, then you shouldn't have told them to make garbage
IrrelevantHandle
One thing I will say for newer fridges - they're easier on the power bill and a shitload quieter. Of course, the noise only matters because every single house and apartment needs to be open plan now
MarcoPoloOnPollo
That's actually a big reason they fail, if I recall correctly. They redesigned one of the components that was super loud to a use a different mechanical principle, but it literally just can't last remotely as long due to stresses and serviceability or something like that.
Any refrigerator technicians want to elaborate better?
ilhares
No reason to replace a good unit if you're fond of it. I'd be looking to repair an old one rather than replace it, too, cost depending.
nclu
Was entirely ready to demote a fridge to garage just because of that notorious Samsung ice-maker. Ended up moving instead
WhatzitTooya
Huh, reminds me of my first fridge from when I moved out. Got it for free. Later noticed why, thing used *so* much power that the replacement fridge made up it's cost within two years by the power savings.
Soggybathroomsock
Modern fridges are a lot more power efficient though. I mean, repair is good, but there is such a thing as technological advancement.
ilhares
That's absolutely true, but these modern fridges have a lot of extra bullshit they absolutely don't need, either, like buying a fucking new car. NO, I do not need internet, inventory tracking, cellphone alerts, etc. And of course it sets of alarms if one nigh-fucking-useless component breaks and they want an arm and a leg to fix that, too.
Give me the body and coolant lines from that 1950s fridge (update the insulation if can, I guess), and then the modern compressor pump and coolant.
Soggybathroomsock
Precisely. No frills efficiently is the best. It needs to keep stuff cool at a low cost.
sekanna
Only reason to replace it is to have a garage fridge for the beer
DragonThunderUndertaking
Wait, you guys have garages?
ilhares
Fair enough. I still miss our original house fridge from my childhood. None of the replacements available had the same internal layout, it was frustrating. It had to go, though, it was on the *old* Freon variants which had been outlawed before it died.
sekanna
It's my grandmother's fridge I will forever remember. It had ice and water, double doors, plus that little pseudo door for condiments. Loved that thing. They had a fairly early dishwasher you had to roll out and hook up to the sink though. Full butcher block on top however. Anyway, best fridge I have ever known in my life for space and shelving. I'm old, I'm fondly remembering a fridge.
toolzgalore2
There have been drop in replacements for the banned refrigerants
ilhares
True, but at the time it went bad it honestly wasn't cost effective for my old man. Single parent with multiple children, he had to look at the bottom line.
killergrooves85
The old fridges are genuinely better. New ones are engineered to last only about 5 years. The ice maker in mine is always jamming. I had to replace the heating element in my oven after 4 years. It was expensive as fuck. Now one of the burners won’t heat below medium. I hate the modern era. Everything you buy breaks and everything else has a subscriptions.
Einbrecher
They're really not. They just, as you pointed out, have more shit on them that can break, like the in-door water and ice dispensers. Replacement parts are also cheap. I don't know what BWM-tier appliances you've got, but the replacement heating element for my contractor-grade oven/stovetop was $40 and a replacement defrost coil for my contractor-grade freezer was $70. Replacement capacitor for my AC unit was $25. All fixed with standard tools. All had several YouTube tutorials explaining how.
Einbrecher
And because I fucked up my pronouns - old fridges aren't genuinely better, new fridges just have more breakable shit on them.
SirButcher
They are better at using significantly more power for less coldness, and yet, somehow, more icing.
You can still buy efficient, good fridges. And they still cost a lot - the same as they did a while ago. Hell, you can even buy fridges that you can repair yourself (just look at any RV and sailing supplies! They will last forever with maintenance, but get ready for a 5-10x price tag vs a cheap LG).
ContinuallySenseless
I like the idea of efficiency, but the last two "modern" fridges I've had were loud. Like you can hear the motherfuckers go from two rooms over loud. My mom has about the same age fridge as my current one, and hers is fairly quiet, so bad luck bias at play I guess.