Going green broke my fridge!

[HillBill]

When I was little our fridge was gas powered. In those days folks plugged into the gas lines just as we do with electric plugs now....sort of bayonet fitting things.

Anyway, I mind my Dad complaining that the fridge burnt more gas than the cooker did.

Fridges run all the time. Cookers not so much.

 

[Toddy]

Fridges run all the time. Cookers not so much.

Cold house, no central heating, in Winter the fridge wasn't run all the time. Mothers shopped every day for groceries, butcher meat, etc., milk arrived on the doorstep and was kept in the pantry that had an open grill vent to the outdoors.
Our first fridge didn't even have an icebox part....no one had freezers.

It was really noticeable in the gas bill when the fridges were run though.

Different times.
Everything was cooked at home; a clootie dumpling was boiled for three and a half hours, and we had one a week.....food took time back then. Jam and jeely making lasted weeks, every cake and biscuit was baked at home.
Different times.

 

[HillBill]

Cold house, no central heating, in Winter the fridge wasn't run all the time. Mothers shopped every day for groceries, butcher meat, etc., milk arrived on the doorstep and was kept in the pantry that had an open grill vent to the outdoors.
Our first fridge didn't even have an icebox part....no one had freezers.

It was really noticeable in the gas bill when the fridges were run though.

Different times.
Everything was cooked at home; a clootie dumpling was boiled for three and a half hours, and we had one a week.....food took time back then. Jam and jeely making lasted weeks, every cake and biscuit was baked at home.
Different times.

Based on that...The first paragraph describes my house as i live in it now. (built mid 1800's, no central heating, just a gas fire in the living room, High ceilings, no internal doors other than the bathroom and cellar, has a cellar and pantry) Also shop everyday.. Though we do have a 200ltr Chest freezer which we struggle to reduce from the top by an inch. Its always full (we buy a lot of reduced food) I also cook from scratch housewife style... (im the house husband apparently, not because im on the sick atm, but because i worked from home for the 15 years or so before that...)

All in all, reckon your childhood would be familiar here lol

 

[Nice65]

I keep thinking I should invest in some solar panels, I could be selling electricity instead of buying it.

Stick them front, sides and top of fridge and then stand it in the sun