Well, I'm going to be a maverick and
take it from the wife's perspective.
Having an appliance that works, and
does what I expect it to, in the way
I expect it to, is a huge savings in
effort every day.
Just taking the fridge for example,
there are places for pickles, for salad
dressings, for ketchup, for milk, and
buying a new one means finding all new
places for everything.
What a hassle.
Using this fridge is a no-brainer. I
can just open it up and immediately find
whatever I want.
Then there are the memories. My kids
getting tall enough to press the water
button by themselves. The time I filled
the freezer with popsicles during a very
hot week, and the kids thought they'd
found treasure. (And maybe they had.)
If the husband is the one who does all
the cooking, and puts away all the groceries,
and all that, then fine, I'm okay with
him neutering the fridge and buying a new
one.
But if it's primarily *her* tool, why
destroy it? Don't you have a beloved old
tool that you'd hate if your wife got
rid of because of some random reason?
Cheers to the gentleman who pointed out
that the newer fridges break. My MIL
has had 3 fridges in the last 5 years,
because they keep breaking, and she's
really sick of it.
I say that if the husband wants to do
something nice for the wife, do something
she actually *wants*.
Shannah
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