| ||||||||||
 
Dr. Ronald P. Rogers CHIROPRACTOR Support for your body's natural healing capabilities 270-384-5554 Click here for details 
  
Columbia Gas Dept. GAS LEAK or GAS SMELL Contact Numbers 24 hrs/ 365 days 270-384-2006 or 9-1-1 Call before you dig 
Visit ColumbiaMagazine's Directory of Churches Addresses, times, phone numbers and more for churches in Adair County Find Great Stuff in ColumbiaMagazine's Classified Ads Antiques, Help Wanted, Autos, Real Estate, Legal Notices, More... 
|
Carol Perkins: The story of our fridges To say we are a spoiled nation is an understatement. Next earlier column: Carol Perkins: Billy Graham and the salvation of Bill Wilson By Carol Perkins I stood in front of the opened refrigerator looking for lunch. Evidently, I thought something new was hiding behind the milk that I hadn't seen the previous night. After finding nothing tempting, I thought about the days when a piece of bread and a smear of butter would have satisfied the hunger. I was hoping to find a slice of ham to go on that bread. While looking in the drawers and in the freezer on the side, I thought about the days when Guy and I first married and rented an apartment with its own fridge. I could see over the top of it. The freezer compartment held a few trays of ice but not much room for anything else. These aluminum ice trays, cold to touch, released the ice with a pull of a lever. There was no banging on the side of the counters to get the ice out. When we moved to another apartment that had no appliances, we found a used fridge for twenty dollars. The handle pulled down like a lever and the freezer coated over with ice at least once every two weeks. When we bought our first home in 1972 and needed a refrigerator, I chose a modern one painted in an Avocado Green. Having this new appliance for me was like Guy having a new car. I especially liked the turntable feature on the inside. Back then, the shelves were metal instead of plastic, and it defrosted itself. I had been through the defrosting process of putting a pan of boiling water in the freezer, waiting for the ice that had gathered along the walls to melt. What a mess! For the next twenty years, that refrigerator stayed with us. When we built a new home, my color scheme was yellow, so I debated whether to trade Old Faithful in on a new model or have it painted. I found a guy who repainted refrigerators and within a few days, I had a brand new "old" Harvest Gold fridge. Even though my stove was still green, I didn't care. It was a matter of time before it needed replacing and only a matter of time before the colored appliances were totally out of style. When that time arrived, that same refrigerator was given a coat of almond (off-white) and is now a back up in the garage. My new (now ten years old) side-by-side is white rather than stainless steel, the "correct" color to use according to the House Hunters. Potential buyers turn their nose up at white appliances. "Guy, what if the value of our home goes down because we have white appliances?" His reply: "Are you planning to sell?" He missed the point. There was a time when a family was lucky to have one refrigerator, but there are many families with a fridge in the basement, in the garage, and small ones in the kids' rooms so they don't have to move too far away from their video games. To say we are a spoiled nation is an understatement. By the way, every time I go to a "home store" I browse the appliance aisle just in case. This story was posted on 2018-03-01 14:54:17
Printable: this page is now automatically formatted for printing.
Have comments or corrections for this story? Use our contact form and let us know. More articles from topic Carol Perkins:
Carol Perkins: Billy Graham and the salvation of Bill Wilson Carol Perkins: Always the same girl - 19 or 90 Carol Perkins: Speaking career takes new turn Carol Perkins: Writer finds new mission in life Carol Perkins: Walmart Episode - A Day in the Life of Carol Carol Perkins: A new perspective on retirement Carol Perkins: What goes around . . . Carol Perkins: In New Year, she'll heed advice of her husband Carol Perkins: The surprise is half the fun at Christmas Carol Perkins: One me, two places to be, Part 2 View even more articles in topic Carol Perkins |
 
115 Jamestown St. Columbia, KY. 270-384-2496 
  
   
 Provided by the Adair Co Fiscal Court and the Adair Co. Emergency Mgt. Agency 
|
||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
Quick Links to Popular Features
Looking for a story or picture? Try our Photo Archive or our Stories Archive for all the information that's appeared on ColumbiaMagazine.com. | ||||||||||
|
Contact us: Columbia Magazine and columbiamagazine.com are published by Linda Waggener and Pen Waggener, PO Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728. Please use our contact page, or send questions about technical issues with this site to webmaster@columbiamagazine.com. All logos and trademarks used on this site are property of their respective owners. All comments remain the property and responsibility of their posters, all articles and photos remain the property of their creators, and all the rest is copyright 1995-Present by Columbia Magazine. Privacy policy: use of this site requires no sharing of information. Voluntarily shared information may be published and made available to the public on this site and/or stored electronically. Anonymous submissions will be subject to additional verification. Cookies are not required to use our site. However, if you have cookies enabled in your web browser, some of our advertisers may use cookies for interest-based advertising across multiple domains. For more information about third-party advertising, visit the NAI web privacy site.
| ||||||||||
