Because I Know You All Care
June 17, 2009
The refrigerator was gone today.
My oldest son and I were slightly disappointed to see it gone. We drove by it at least twice day and without fail we would say, “Whoa! No way!” and “That is unbelievable! Free?” It was endlessly amusing to us. And probably only us.
Now we just drive by and wonder who picked up the beat up, rusted, dented, filthy refrigerator. I am not sure the photo adequately portrayed the sorry state since many of you said you would grab it off the curb.
Posted by Chris @ 12:45 am
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LOL! I felt the same way when someone took our old fridge. We put it out to be picked up by a waste disposal company because it was completely dysfunctional. But someone picked it up before the disposal company got there.
They must have had a sorry surprise when they got home.
June 17th, 2009 at 1:36 amActually I am glad that you didn’t get in trouble. Where I live, a person might have been fined for leaving such a thing on the street — there is a special service you can call instead, and a truck comes to pick up your “oversized refuse” and takes it away for free.
Chris says: Why would I get in trouble? IT WAS NOT MINE!
June 17th, 2009 at 7:17 amI want to know if the bird & bird’s owners were ever reunited??
Chris says: Sadly, no. The bird never came back.
June 17th, 2009 at 7:44 amlol lol lol lol
when we put old matteress to the curb i always wonder why would anyone take it. but they do.
how is baseball with the travel team and has football started
yesterday was the last day of school here for us yea yea yea
June 17th, 2009 at 8:30 amFound you via Sue. I love the photo of the refrigerator. It kind of looks like something serial killer would use to store cut up body parts. If someone took it, did that someone look like Hannibal Lecter?
June 17th, 2009 at 8:57 amI nearly spit my coffee all over my computer screen. I’ve seen pictures of your house - you don’t have in your newly moved house anything as old and hideous as that junk on the curb. Why do people think that it is yours? Or that you would have moved it halfway across the country before dumping it on the curb (with the doors still attached, shame on you - snort!!) Boggles the mind!!
June 17th, 2009 at 9:04 amPeople will pick up stuff like that and sell them for scrap metal. I *hope* that’s what happened.
June 17th, 2009 at 9:32 amA couple of years ago on HGTV there was a program called “The Junk Brothers.” It was filmed somewhere in Canada. The premise was they went around and collected “good” junk and remade it into something else, then sneaked it back to the owners and videoed their reaction as they realized it was their old junk. They made an old Jenny Lind bed into a parlor type hat rack, and that type thing. The most impressive one I saw was when they took a red enameled range and made it into a media center. Creative to the inth degree.
June 17th, 2009 at 9:46 amWhere I live there are scrap metal businesses that drive around and pick up all the old junk and then sell what they can .Our town makes you pay to have appliances picked up ( by the town garbage) so everyone is happy when the “scrap metal” collectors are around!!!!!
June 17th, 2009 at 10:07 amI don’t know about that area, but around here if anything with substantial amounts of metal is left on the curb people will snatch it up immediately. The money they make off of scrap metal by selling it to scrap metal places is pretty good.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:29 amI can only imagine who took and what they are doing with it….
June 17th, 2009 at 10:49 amyou know what would have been really funny? If you had taken a picture of your kids, without helmets, shoes, or suncreen, sitting on their bikes inside the refrigerator! with tthe door half closed!
WTH is up with your readers who presumed this was yours? did they not READ the post?
sorry, vent over.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:22 pmMaybe people pick that stuff up for parts?
In my neighborhood we have one day in April that is designated large item pick-up day when the trash company comes around and picks up stuff they normally wouldn’t pick up (without charging a fee).
Before they get there though, it’s like a big free-for-all with people driving around with the backs of their trucks full of old grills, couches, carpet remnants, lawn mowers, etc.
I got a cool glider from down my street. Of course I don’t have a truck, so I dragged it UP the street further proving to my neighbors that I am totally nuts.
June 17th, 2009 at 1:18 pmI’m still wondering who snatched our old mattress from our yard…the one that was gone within twenty minutes of us hauling out to the curb for “bulk collection”. DH and I slept on it for 13 years, and I can tell you that it was probably grosser than the old fridge. Some people are just really desperate. Or something.
Maybe someone just wanted that sub zero for its parts…
June 17th, 2009 at 1:39 pmI bet it was a bunch of squirrels. Really, what else do they have to do besides play in traffic? I bet a bunch of them came along in the dead of, um, noon and darted that sucker away to the middle of the woods. There the poor lost cockatiel (or was it a parrot of some sort?) sits atop the fridge and is worshipped by all the woodland animals.
June 17th, 2009 at 1:45 pmMy husband and I will put “stuff” out by the curb just to see how long it takes to develop legs! Sick, I know, but it is amazing what people will take under the darkness of night!
June 17th, 2009 at 2:03 pmChris, did you not know that everything you put on your blog you are directly responsible for? It’s your fault the bird is gone. It’s your fault that trashy fridge was there. It’s your fault the storm clouds blew in.
June 17th, 2009 at 2:14 pmIt looked like the one my MIL gave us (rust and all!) when we got married. We were broke. We could not fill it with food, so she told us to fill it with gallon jugs filled with water/ice, so it’d run less. ??? We unplugged it and gave it way and saw our power bill go down by $50 per month. MIL never forgave us. Oh well.
June 17th, 2009 at 2:38 pmp.s. Did you ever resolve the shorts/capris/mini dress/maxi dress dilema?
Chris says: Returned the maxi dress. Wear the mini dress around the neighborhood. Avoid the capris. Wear the shorts with reckless abandon.
June 17th, 2009 at 2:40 pmMeh, looks like a normal trash day after a major hurricane.
June 17th, 2009 at 5:16 pmOK… what I picked up from this post was nothing about the refrigerator but about you and your son. I love that you laugh together. My youngest son, 21 now, and I are that way. Great relationship. Love it.
June 17th, 2009 at 7:35 pmOur neighbors once took a refrigerator like that to keep a beer keg cold. They even drilled a hole right in the door for the tap, so nobody had to open it. Then I believe they disposed of the fridge after the party!
June 18th, 2009 at 6:04 amI just love those things that become hilarious inside jokes between families. Both my husbands family and mine have a few of those things we say when something prompts a reminder. We have a great time explaining them to one another and anyone else around. It’ll probably be a catch phrase for years in your home.
June 18th, 2009 at 9:05 amsorry I missed that important detail, sorry!!
June 18th, 2009 at 4:25 pm