Unplugging the Fridge
Thinking Outside the [Ice] Box
Someone recently asked me how the fridge experiment was going, and I realized that I missed the anniversary of when we first unplugged! To me, that’s a pretty good sign that the project is going well. The anniversary came and went totally unnoticed. I imagined (a year ago) that I’d want some sort of fanfare [...]
Practical Ways to Store Food without a Fridge
Over the last couple of weeks there has been an article from treehugger.com floating around Facebook, Reddit, and Pinterest highlighting Korean designer, Jihyun Ryou’s five creative ways to store food without a fridge. The designer’s goal was “re-introducing and re-evaluating traditional oral knowledge of food, which is closer to nature,” by using objects to make [...]
Unplugging the Fridge: Cost vs. Inconvenience and Project Review
A few weeks ago, I posted on what we had saved for the first two weeks of our fridge-less project. I got some interesting responses! Some of which made me realize that not everyone who is a current browser on my blog fully understood what we were doing. I had a hair-brained idea to see [...]
Wanted: Fridge-Sitter
Ever wonder what happens when you leave town for the weekend, and you have resolved not to plug in your fridge? Probably not, huh. Last weekend we wanted to take a spur-of-the-moment mini trip to the mountains. It was the last weekend we had free before we hit the end of June-holiday/birthday craziness, and then [...]
No Fridge = Saving Money?
So – we went the whole month of May without a fridge. Was it hard? No. In fact, it was surprisingly easy. Kind of undramatic actually. In my last update, I mentioned that we’d continue the experiment for at least a full billing cycle from our electric company to see how our energy saving (if [...]
To Be Continued
Four weeks now without a fridge and going strong. We’ve had a lot of questions about the experiment and how it’s gone so far. Last week, a friend asked if we knew yet if we planned to continue, or if we were going to plug back in after the month was up. The honest answer, [...]
Where’s the Meat?
Since my post last week when we unplugged the fridge I’ve gotten a lot of questions (mainly on my facebook page) about meat. Are we vegetarian? Are we switching to raw foods? How do we plan to keep meat from going bad? What about lunch meat? Well, it’s pretty simple. No we’re not vegetarian or [...]
We Call it an Icebox
May 1st, we officially began our experiment. We unplugged the fridge! I was encouraged at how on-board Rick really was. On Saturday night, he even made sure that we had jugs of water in the freezer, in order to be prepared for the first day using our freezer compartment as an icebox. Yesterday was really [...]
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