On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:10:33 -0400, "Steve Freides" >
wrote:

>Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 9/23/2014 10:22 AM, Steve Freides wrote:
>>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bigger is always better if it will fit. Mine is just too small
>>>> which is why we have two little fridges as well.
>>>
>>> I don't agree. Bigger costs more to run, all other things being
>>> equal. We really do try to eat a lot of fresh food - the small one
>>> we have works fine, and we have both our adult-sized sons at home
>>> now, too, and we're fine. My freezer is at least half empty.
>>>
>>> -S-
>>>
>>>
>>
>> A bigger fridge in 2014 is cheaper to run than a small fridge in 1994.
>> It also depends on the proximity to the grocery store. If you live
>> some distance it is cheaper to run the bigger fridge that using a
>> gallon of gas.
>
>Fair point. I have three groceries stores near me, and the further of
>them is 8/10 of a mile away.
>
>> The rating on a 34 cu. ft. Samsung is 855 kw a year. In my local,
>> that is $145. The 18 cu. ft is 594/year or $44 savings. That
>> translates
>> to about 80 miles of driving. How many trips to the grocery store is
>> that?
>> That half full freezer is less efficient than a full one too.
>
>Well, all I can say is that I keep in mine what I need. Sometimes it's
>more full than others.

Even though my second fridge is older it's in the basement and gets
opened maybe 10 times a week so it uses very little electricity. On
the other hand the kitchen fridge is much newer but gets opened many
times each day, so the comparison of power consumed for the basement
fridge is negligible. How a fridge is used has a lot more to do with
power consumed than age. I know people who have a huge fridge in
their kitchen but everytime it's opened they stand there perusing the
contents for like 30+ seconds and remove nothing... everyone in the
family does the same, their fridge is opened hundreds of times a
day... often they open the fridge, stare into it for a long time, then
just walk away without closing the door, slooowly closes on its own.
They have a lot of other energy wasting habits; lights on in every
room, basement and garage lights on 24/7, light their big stove oven
to bake one potato... I've seen lots of folks who live the same...
some people have their washer and drier going nonstop, all day every
day... I do all the laundry here, at most three loads a week, often
just two, in winter sometimes just one load a week... in warm weather
there's more dirty sweaty outdoor work but in winter there's no need
to change clothes but once a day. Since I had an on demand tankless
hot water heater installed my propane bill from April till now has
been $36, that's for hot water and cooking. Previously for the same
time period it was a full 20 times more, mostly for hot water. Anyone
who's still heating hot water in a tank is a fool. A tankless on
demand water heater may seem pricey but it will pay for itself in less
than two years.