Selling refrigerators

When we moved into this house, now almost exactly a year ago, we found ourselves in possession of five freezers and refrigerators.

The big black refrigerator used to live in the kitchen, back when the kitchen was a dark cave. I bought a white refrigerator as part of that remodel, and the black guy went into the garage.

The super sized freezer had its own special room built into the garage. It was left by the previous homeowner, along with half of the frozen food he and his wife had been storing there. Before we moved in, my mother and mother-in-law decided to clean out the super-sized freezer (thanks moms). At the bottom, they found steaks carefully labeled and dated -- from 1976. Needless to say, we hucked all the frozen food from that freezer, and unplugged it. Can't be energy efficient if it's as old as I am.

The more moderate sized chest freezer had been ours in Texas. The lid was badly dented sometime during moving and storage, and so we were afraid to plug it in.

The refrigerator from the 1940s had lived in the unfinished room in the basement. It was also a donation from the previous homeowner. He informed me that it still worked, and they used it occasionally to store extra food. We had it hauled out to the garage before the remodel.

Anyway, sometime while my sister's family was spending their two summer months with us (we have been missing them this past week, by the way), I became annoyed that we had five refrigerator/freezers, and yet were only using the one in the kitchen to store food for seven people. I wanted a working chest freezer. I then did a little homework and found we could get all four non-used ones hauled away from about $200 total.

Tim took up the challenge. First, he plugged in the dented lid freezer, and found that it works in spite of the dents. So we filled it.

He then took pictures of all the others and posted them on Craigslist. We have sold the black fridge (for $100), the super-sized 70 freezer (for $50), and now a lady who just bought an old house wants the 1940 fridge for her "show" kitchen (not for the downstairs kitchen where she really keeps the food). She's coming tomorrow to pick it up. For another $100. (Knock on wood).

Possible alternative title for this post:

Craigslist: How a cheap husband can get strangers to haul your junk for free.