New Life left in our old Frig

We bought an old model refrigerator a few years ago to keep in our storage building to use for overflow from the kitchen frig. It has served us well and we always have food stored there. One day last week Jim opened the door to go into the building, and heard a whining noise that was getting louder and louder. He realized it was the frig and unplugged it. We took the food out and left the refrigerator unplugged while we searched for another one.


Yesterday Jim saw one on the local internet "Sell or Swap" and called to check on it. The seller said it was in good condition and he told her he would like to have it. She posted some pictures for him to see. Today he hitched up the trailer and he and my brother Perry took off to neighboring Florala to check it out. He was so disappointed when he got there and saw the dirty refrigerator sitting on the back porch of the mobile home. It was unplugged and he told the young man he wanted to plug it in to see if it works. And it wouldn't come on. So..... Jim came home without the refrigerator.


My brother suggested Jim remove the panel inside the freezer and check out the fan to see if maybe it needed replacing. Jim is not a mechanic and a project like this is so foreign to him. But he managed to locate and remove the small plastic fan that was making the noise. A little WD-40 and cleaning and he put the fan back in and guess what! It's running again and cooling. And then someone told him to rub vaseline along the rubber seal on the door and that would make it close tighter. It's been several hours now and the good old trusty frig is still cooling and the fan is quiet. And it hasn't cost a dime to repair it. Maybe we're lucky that the one he was going to buy didn't work after all. Saved us lots of $$$.


Everybody needs a second refrigerator if they live in the south. To keep canned drinks, extra milk, fruit and vegetables that need to stay cool, and many other things that won't fit in the kitchen frig. We can even put watermelons on the big bottom shelf.


Hurrah for my "mechanical" husband - maybe this will be a new career for him. He has been ordering replacement parts online and repairing other things around the house. He prints out manuals to help him with his repairing. We used to discard things that stopped working and buy new ones. Now he is spending time trying to repair things and it's so rewarding to gets things "fixed up" and working again.

I still haven't figured out how to put a hanger on the top of my little Pinochio "jumping jack" that I keep hanging in the kitchen window. You pull a string and he flaps his legs and arms. I really would like to have a string hanging from the top of his hat instead of having the hook around his neck! Maybe Gorilla glue will work?