{"id":367,"date":"2024-07-24T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2024-07-25T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T21:12:00","slug":"15-cubic-feet-of-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/24\/15-cubic-feet-of-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"REFRIGERATORS ARE FUN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The Hotpoint refrigerator \u2014 <\/strong><\/span> the &#8220;value&#8221; brand of G.E. \u2014 is a good product. It lasts 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what you want: 15-to-20 years.<\/p>\n<p>And if we start talking stoves, you want even longer. I got 24 years out of a Magic Chef stove.\u00a0 The burners were clogged and the thermostat was shot. Time to buy another one.<\/p>\n<p>I used to buy Spanish refrigerators. Welbilt. The spelling said it all. Good for only nine years. Frigidaire isn&#8217;t much better \u2014 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>I buy appliances from a distributor out of\u00a0 Stow, Ohio. He&#8217;ll hook up the gas flexline (pigtail) to the stove. I could go to Bernie Marcus at Home Depot, but my guy in Stow is hassle-free and about the same price.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Refrigerators are <\/strong><\/span>fun; they don&#8217;t often screw up, and you can occasionally get a few beers and pops after the tenant moves out. Definitely some open ketchup.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-31924 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/w19-refrig-2018-milstead.-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/w19-refrig-2018-milstead.-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/w19-refrig-2018-milstead.-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/w19-refrig-2018-milstead.-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/w19-refrig-2018-milstead.-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/w19-refrig-2018-milstead.-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t take anything from this refrigerator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Hotpoint refrigerator \u2014 the &#8220;value&#8221; brand of G.E. \u2014 is a good product. It lasts 20 years. That&#8217;s what you want: 15-to-20 years. And if we start talking stoves, you want even longer. I got 24 years out of a Magic Chef stove.\u00a0 The burners were clogged and the thermostat was shot. Time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31952,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/31952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}