Survivorship bias. Most 40-year-old fridges are not working anymore.
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This is kind of what my parents have done in my childhood home. But our real fridge never broke. We just have this older fridge/freezer in the garage to hold extra food in, and it is a genius idea for a family to have the extra space
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You can also use it as a backup for when your new fridge plays a two-minute ad before you can open it.
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Wtf, that thing is probably on like wifi3
My husband bought this house from the 1940s that we currently live in about 11 years ago, and it came with a fridge from the 90s. Its not pretty, but it worked then and it still works now, so we just never bought a new fridge.
Never really made sense to us to drop hundreds (thousands?) of dollars on a new fridge just for the aesthetics, so we didn't. Even tho we'll get some comments from our moms about it every now and then...
Make sure you clean the dust off the coils (usually on the back) once in a while and make sure it's not too close to the wall. It helps the compressor not run as much, increasing its life.
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I have a refrigerator that's been here since we moved in a decade ago... my parents were too frugal to replace it and sometimes icecream would melt...
Also the bathtub area in the 2nd floor is sometimes leaking downstairs and its still not fully fixed.
Also the heater is kinda broken every year and my dad has to use a temporty fix that eould often stop working a few times through the winter.
Also I had a window AC in the living room that didn't work for like 8 years until it got replaced recently. So it was hot as hell downstairs, so sometimes I ate in my room where the AC worked lol.
Also walls and celings have cracks.
And this is not even the worst place I lived in. I've been to worse
Yeah, good luck given the prices of garages these days.
I hope my twenty-five-year-old fridge keeps going. No problems so far, apart from the icemaker, which I don't need anyway. The icemaker was nice to have, and I bought a replacement that looked identical to the old one, but it only lasted two years, so I just use trays now.