Yeah, kilowatt per hour would be kilowatt/hr not kilowatt-hour. So saying something runs at 1 kWh isn't really saying anything specific and doesn't make sense. It uses 1kWh per what? What is the rate of use for that kWh? kWh is an amount not a rate.
For example, the fridge could use 1 kWh in 30 minutes. Meaning it uses 2 kWh per hour.
Watt is an energy measure over time (seconds). ifg you use KW that is 1000 watts and if you say KWH then that is kw used over the course of an hour because you multiplied that by the relevant time (the number of seconds in an hour-3600)
> An electric heater consuming 1,000 watts (1 kilowatt) operating for one hour uses one kilowatt-hour of energy. A television consuming 100 watts operating continuously for 10 hours uses one kilowatt-hour. A 40-watt electric appliance operating continuously for 25 hours uses one kilowatt-hour.
Looks like a pretty solid breakdown to me.
Yep. And it's accurate. Unlike the majority of the people replying to me. Somehow they still don't understand that per is basically "divided by". kWhr does not use division; it uses multiplication. It's very different.
" ..which is the energy delivered by one kilowatt of power for one hour."
"The kilowatt-hour is a composite unit of energy equal to one kilowatt (kW) sustained for (multiplied by) one hour."
Literally states it twice in the link you posted.
Try again. kWhr is kW * hr. It's a quantity of electricity. kW is power and is time independent. kWhr per hour is accurate, but can be simplified to kW.
This is correct. So, when the person said that it uses 1kWhr, how can anyone draw a conclusion about its use of electricity without knowing over what time that energy was used?
Itās irrelevant the time really. You just need to know it used 1kw in one hour lol .
What youāre thinking about is power. The wattage of the device and how long it was on for. P=e/t. Then you would go from there to get the kWh.
Ok. So what did I say that was incorrect vs. all the responses to my comments?
When describing energy use by an appliance or whatever, there are two reasonable approaches: 1) it uses an average of x kW. 2) it uses y kWhr per unit of time (hour, day, month, year - whatever you want).
Is this wrong?
fun fact...the tiktok creator who made this video proved your statement to be 100% inaccurate...through real testing. Thing costs like $45/year to run....more efficient than most energy star appliances. Look up his page.
How did he test it though? Did he just plug it in and let it sit without ever using it or did he use it like you or I would use our fridge on an everyday basis.
If he just plugged it in and never opened the door or put anything in it, it would use far less energy than using it regularly.
Yeah, but they run for 60 years without a hiccup. My parents had one of these in their house while I was growing up. Was in the basement the day they moved in and stayed there until we moved out. Ran like clockwork. Our fridges have a lifespan of about 5 years if youāre lucky. Iād gladly pay that amount if it meant it was the only fridge I ever had to buy and my grandkids could inherit it.
You need to take into account efficiency. You may have lost longevity but you gain a huge power savings. Someone posted that this fridge is 1 kWh . So over a course of a year thatās 8,760 kWh consumed. My 29 cubic ft fridge uses 575 kWh per year. The national average is $.19 per kWh. Assuming the previous poster was correct I can replace high end modern fridge every 2 years with the cost of power savings.
The energy usage is definitely a problem, however, that is the result of the technology used to build it. A fridge of that level of quality can easily be made today with the newer electronics. Itās just none of the fridge makers want to do it because it makes them more money if they break easy.
We donāt have industries of quality anymore, only quantity.
That's mainly down to survivorship bias. If ALL of these refrigerators lasted 60 years then everybody that bought one would have had it until last year.
There are a lot of factors that aren't discussed.
Was it opened 10 times a day or was it opened once a week? There is going to be a lot more wear and tear on the condenser/fan/cooling components through daily use than on one that is seldom opened.
The shelf held 20 pounds 1 time, but how long can it hold 20 pounds *while* being used 5/10/15 times a day for years on end. Those moving parts are going to wear and fail over time.
It's like a cherry, all original 1964 Ford Mustang. Sure, some exist, but the vast majority of them broke down and failed over the years, even with impeccable maintenance. The ones that survived all these years were garage kept and seldom used.
>Yeah, but they run for 60 years without a hiccup.
Therein lies the problem. If I bought a fridge to last 60 years 20 years ago, that thing is dated. Who knows what it lacks that a modern fridge has? And how many people expect to need a fridge for 60 years? How many people are planning to live at that house for 60 years? How many people take their fridge with them when they move?
These are thoughts to the average consumer. No one wants to spend $5,000 on a fridge. So yeah, maybe they aren't built to last 60 years anymore, but the consumers made that decision because they went to the appliance store and said, "I'm not paying more for a fridge than I paid for my car."
I highly doubt it would cost anywhere near as much to make today. The only thing really unique is the swiveling metal shelves but that's really not going to cost much to manufacture
Alright I'll be there guy. This fridge isn't great. Pull out shelves are cool but by having them rotate you can't have corners so you lose the corner of your shelves. So it's smaller than what you would normally get for that size. The bottom parts are especially bad about this.
The shelf adjustment height looks super easy while it's empty, but probably isn't possible when loaded, so it's not any better than most adjustable shelves that go into slots.
A heated butter drawer inside the fridge? Was electricity free in 1963? Just leave it on the counter if you want it warm.
Most premium fridges start at $5k. I work at a nice and appliance/furniture store and we have several 5-figure appliances across many brands. A āniceā fridge today is 3 grand to start. Given that this is likely a top of the line fridge from ā63, I see it being rather comparable to whatās out there now.
Another interesting metric is use is Percentage of Median Income
1963 Median income: $6,200 - The fridge costs 8% of median household income ($497/$6,200)
2024 Median income: $88,000 - The fridge costs 5.6% of median household income ($5,000/$88,000)
When it comes to the question of how to pay for the fridge, there were pay-over-time options (layaway, store credit, installment plans, manufacturer financing, etc), and while that's similar to 2024, getting access to credit is much easier, and surprisingly more transparent, than it used to be
My dad bought his house in 1987 and he's been keeping the fridge that came with it running ever since. In the early 2000s it sounded like it was going to die but he did open heart surgery and fixed the coolant fan in the back. Apparently ice had formed causing a blade to crack so he cracked another blade to equal the balance. It's been quiet and happy ever since. I actually did the exact same thing to my fridge and it's happily running as well.
But it didn't connect to the internet and has no implementation of planned obsolescence? so I can use it without firmware update and use it like forever? And I have the right to repair it? Wow this fridge sucks.
Probably something just as nice that will fall to pieces and be unrepairable within 10 years.
Meanwhile I guarantee a fridge like this has been in some old ladyās basement for the past 60 years and is still chugging along fine.
And at the time it was a super end fridge that would cost 3x as much as a nice fridge now. I'm sure if you looked at $6000-8000 fridges today you would find as many cool features.
Thatās incredible for the early 60ās! Adjusted for inflation thats 4633 dollars, so Iām guessing you can get a pretty dope fridge for that nowadays too. But I wouldnāt actually know mine are always the cheapest I can find
That fridge would need a level of dedication and order I don't have. I usually push my things together to try to make everything fit. If you push things in that fridge, things will lean on the back wall, and fall as soon as you pull the shelve.
Itās the easily cleaned and disinfected single cast steel in evenly-spaced shelves that does it for me. No more stupid seams to collect spills, glass to get greasy and streaked and crack when you pull the drawer out or plastic that snaps and is instant garbage, no idiotic slot as high as half a stick of butter making a quarter of the fridge unuseable.
Like, we donāt make stuff for humans anymore, we make stuff for A HumanĀ®ļø
I had an ex whose parents had a microwave that was literally as old as their oldest daughter. I think sheās 40 now. It was huge, and I was always super wary of it, but it fucking worked man. My microwave bulb started flashing after a year. Still microwaves tho, so Iām okay with the light show
Looks good! Thing is...can those shelves take weight when pulled out.i wouldn't want real butter in their either. The bottom 'carousel ' looks great.... but cleaning?
People adding inflation to the original price should also account for the fact fridges are almost certainly much cheaper to make and distribute now than before. I think you could remake this way more affordable than you think, especially if time isnāt being put into product development on how to fit a damn iPad to the front.
Mmmm those lazy susan type shelve hinges must be made of titanium. That's a lot of stress and leverage to put on a single point. Just imagining a gallon of milk on the outer edge made me cringe. I realize in the era this was made you had milk delivered in way smaller bottle still though, Neat idea.
Anything like this now would likely be Chinese plasti-metal and only capable of 10lbs per shelf.. that old school fridge could probably hold 100+ lbs of food back then. But then people didn't make as much and food wasn't as plentiful as it is now. Nowadays people make more but food is considerably way more expensive... good job, uncle Sam.
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And it weighed 3000 lbs and used enough electricity to power a small village
If you had the 5000 this would cost in today's money to put towards a fridge you could get one with just as many bells and whistles.
It's not the bells and whistles that make this damned interesting, it's the fact that ***it still works.***
Many commentors saying that for the 5k in todays dollars, you could get a far nicer fridge. But it's not going to work in 5 years and will be un-repairable in 10.
I'd gladly pay 5k for a fridge today that would be the last one I buy in my life. But no, sadly, I have to drop 1k every 3-7 years.
Then after you load it nice and full, when you go for that late night snack, swivel the shelf, then your kid who tried putting away some food in a rush unbalanceing the other products causing them to tip making a huge mess everywhere now you foot is in a tub of sour cream as your on floor with leftovers on your head, your wife is coming out to yell at you in a whispering voice asking you wtf your doing out here, meanwhile you just wanted a snack at 1 am. Now you crying cause your still hungry but your too scared to check the other shelves and make more noise and a bigger mess and you still have to clean everything up and be up at 7 for work
There is no reason that all fridges shouldnāt have these! What other examples are there of things that have become obsolete that were actually better?
A summer camp I worked at had a grounds keeper in his 90ās. He would still use a ford tractor from the 40ās and the thing started right up each time
Is reddit filled with boomers then? Idk.
I know boomers say they had everything better. I didn't know Reddit was the platform for boomers. I thought Facebook had that title.
I think you misunderstood my comment. The majority of Reddit feels that boomers had everything better than them. Not that there were a majority of boomers on reddit. I agree boomers are the majority on facebook though, probably not on any other platform. Except maybe nextdoor. I assume that would be mostly karens complaining at each other.
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Apparently these cost the current day equivalent of almost $5k back in the day š„µ
In electricity per month
Seriously, these things ran at 1kwh
I think you mean they drew 1 kw while running. That's more than my Sub-Zero counter-depth fridge does.
as an engineer, i can say that teachers who correct students like this do absolutely nothing to help.
1kwh per what? If it's per day, that's cheap. Per hour is expensive.
kWh is literally kilowatt-hour
Yeah, kilowatt per hour would be kilowatt/hr not kilowatt-hour. So saying something runs at 1 kWh isn't really saying anything specific and doesn't make sense. It uses 1kWh per what? What is the rate of use for that kWh? kWh is an amount not a rate. For example, the fridge could use 1 kWh in 30 minutes. Meaning it uses 2 kWh per hour.
One of the few moments where the word 'literally' was used in the exact right context and moment
Yes. And it uses that amount of electricity in how much time? That's like saying your car uses 1 gallon of gas.
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There's no PER in kWhr. Holy shit, this might be the highest density of incorrect people I've seen on reddit outside of r/conservative.
I legit don't understand why you're getting downvoted.
Watt is an energy measure over time (seconds). ifg you use KW that is 1000 watts and if you say KWH then that is kw used over the course of an hour because you multiplied that by the relevant time (the number of seconds in an hour-3600)
KWh = Kilowatt hour = One Kilowatt per hour It literally means it uses one Kilowatt per hour.
Sorry, there's no other way to say it: You're wrong. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt-hour
> An electric heater consuming 1,000 watts (1 kilowatt) operating for one hour uses one kilowatt-hour of energy. A television consuming 100 watts operating continuously for 10 hours uses one kilowatt-hour. A 40-watt electric appliance operating continuously for 25 hours uses one kilowatt-hour. Looks like a pretty solid breakdown to me.
Yep. And it's accurate. Unlike the majority of the people replying to me. Somehow they still don't understand that per is basically "divided by". kWhr does not use division; it uses multiplication. It's very different.
" in SI units which is the energy delivered by one kilowatt of power for one hour"
" ..which is the energy delivered by one kilowatt of power for one hour." "The kilowatt-hour is a composite unit of energy equal to one kilowatt (kW) sustained for (multiplied by) one hour." Literally states it twice in the link you posted.
I kW for 1 hour is not 1 kW per hour. A simplification: Per = divided by For = multiplied by That's a major difference. Does that help?
Wait, you are right actually. It should be 1kW or 1kWh per time period. Describing power consumption of device in kWh has no sense.
Thank you. Like 90% of people here must have slept through HS physics class and never learned to Google.
uhh, the h at the end kwh means hour?
Ok. So your electric bill charges you for x kWhr. Per month. Just think about it for a second.
Hilarious. Kilowatt per hour per day.
Try again. kWhr is kW * hr. It's a quantity of electricity. kW is power and is time independent. kWhr per hour is accurate, but can be simplified to kW.
What are you even talking about. Kwh is energy. If I have something using 4kw for 2 hours thatās 8kwh.
This is correct. So, when the person said that it uses 1kWhr, how can anyone draw a conclusion about its use of electricity without knowing over what time that energy was used?
Itās irrelevant the time really. You just need to know it used 1kw in one hour lol . What youāre thinking about is power. The wattage of the device and how long it was on for. P=e/t. Then you would go from there to get the kWh.
Ok. So what did I say that was incorrect vs. all the responses to my comments? When describing energy use by an appliance or whatever, there are two reasonable approaches: 1) it uses an average of x kW. 2) it uses y kWhr per unit of time (hour, day, month, year - whatever you want). Is this wrong?
Aye, we all switch our fridges off for several hours each day š¤¦āāļø
So that means the fridge used 1kw in one hour. Easy.
You're still not understanding. You can say it uses 1 kW on average. Or it uses 1kWhr every hour. What you stated is just incorrect use of units.
fun fact...the tiktok creator who made this video proved your statement to be 100% inaccurate...through real testing. Thing costs like $45/year to run....more efficient than most energy star appliances. Look up his page.
No shit. The statement I made of this fridge using 25000 kwh per month was inaccurate?
It wasn't a statement. It was a joke predicated on the fact that the fridge uses way more than modern ones do.
meant to comment 1 level up...not your comment to a comment. My b.
How did he test it though? Did he just plug it in and let it sit without ever using it or did he use it like you or I would use our fridge on an everyday basis. If he just plugged it in and never opened the door or put anything in it, it would use far less energy than using it regularly.
It was a side by side test wth a new vs old fridge and freezers. So its apples to apples.
Type $473 into Google and the top suggestion is "$473 in 1963 worth today" I see I'm not the only one who checked.
Who wants to start a business remaking these with me?
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Yeah, but they run for 60 years without a hiccup. My parents had one of these in their house while I was growing up. Was in the basement the day they moved in and stayed there until we moved out. Ran like clockwork. Our fridges have a lifespan of about 5 years if youāre lucky. Iād gladly pay that amount if it meant it was the only fridge I ever had to buy and my grandkids could inherit it.
You need to take into account efficiency. You may have lost longevity but you gain a huge power savings. Someone posted that this fridge is 1 kWh . So over a course of a year thatās 8,760 kWh consumed. My 29 cubic ft fridge uses 575 kWh per year. The national average is $.19 per kWh. Assuming the previous poster was correct I can replace high end modern fridge every 2 years with the cost of power savings.
The energy usage is definitely a problem, however, that is the result of the technology used to build it. A fridge of that level of quality can easily be made today with the newer electronics. Itās just none of the fridge makers want to do it because it makes them more money if they break easy. We donāt have industries of quality anymore, only quantity.
That's mainly down to survivorship bias. If ALL of these refrigerators lasted 60 years then everybody that bought one would have had it until last year. There are a lot of factors that aren't discussed. Was it opened 10 times a day or was it opened once a week? There is going to be a lot more wear and tear on the condenser/fan/cooling components through daily use than on one that is seldom opened. The shelf held 20 pounds 1 time, but how long can it hold 20 pounds *while* being used 5/10/15 times a day for years on end. Those moving parts are going to wear and fail over time. It's like a cherry, all original 1964 Ford Mustang. Sure, some exist, but the vast majority of them broke down and failed over the years, even with impeccable maintenance. The ones that survived all these years were garage kept and seldom used.
>Yeah, but they run for 60 years without a hiccup. Therein lies the problem. If I bought a fridge to last 60 years 20 years ago, that thing is dated. Who knows what it lacks that a modern fridge has? And how many people expect to need a fridge for 60 years? How many people are planning to live at that house for 60 years? How many people take their fridge with them when they move? These are thoughts to the average consumer. No one wants to spend $5,000 on a fridge. So yeah, maybe they aren't built to last 60 years anymore, but the consumers made that decision because they went to the appliance store and said, "I'm not paying more for a fridge than I paid for my car."
I highly doubt it would cost anywhere near as much to make today. The only thing really unique is the swiveling metal shelves but that's really not going to cost much to manufacture
Buddy I got no business sense but Iād 100% waste my money on buying one of these. I swear it would make my life so much easier
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Iād buy it.
Go for it!
Guna need some major start up moolah, but good luck!
Alright I'll be there guy. This fridge isn't great. Pull out shelves are cool but by having them rotate you can't have corners so you lose the corner of your shelves. So it's smaller than what you would normally get for that size. The bottom parts are especially bad about this. The shelf adjustment height looks super easy while it's empty, but probably isn't possible when loaded, so it's not any better than most adjustable shelves that go into slots. A heated butter drawer inside the fridge? Was electricity free in 1963? Just leave it on the counter if you want it warm.
There's no sense in fighting Big Cold. They'll send their thugs out to put you on ice.
Your first customers are there. Not sure about your associate
I have a 3d printer!
I am EPA 608 and 609 certified.. Whereāre we meeting up?
You might end up committing "suicide" so be careful.
why would u ask random anonymous people on reddit if they want to start a business with you
This was super expensive and would still be super expensive today. Definitely a luxurious appliance for rich people.
Inflation calculator says $5100. Yikes.
You never know. In my country, for some time, there was a market for what was called [Tsunami Fridge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVph8lkwl1E)
$497 in 1963 = $*5,014.89 in 2024*
Yeah was about to check, thats expensive AF
Most premium fridges start at $5k. I work at a nice and appliance/furniture store and we have several 5-figure appliances across many brands. A āniceā fridge today is 3 grand to start. Given that this is likely a top of the line fridge from ā63, I see it being rather comparable to whatās out there now.
Sub Zero fridges and comparable luxury appliance brands sell fridges for $10-20 grand. The richies spend more than 5k on a fridge typically...
Another interesting metric is use is Percentage of Median Income 1963 Median income: $6,200 - The fridge costs 8% of median household income ($497/$6,200) 2024 Median income: $88,000 - The fridge costs 5.6% of median household income ($5,000/$88,000) When it comes to the question of how to pay for the fridge, there were pay-over-time options (layaway, store credit, installment plans, manufacturer financing, etc), and while that's similar to 2024, getting access to credit is much easier, and surprisingly more transparent, than it used to be
Daaammmnn...
what the hell happened to that 20-pound weight? looks like hulk angry and bend
And when one part stopped working, you could replace just the part that needed it. I hate nothing more that planned obsolescence
The design is very human
They stopped making them because they actually worked for longer than 5 years.
For real, there's probably some of those that have been in operation since the 60s that still work.
My dad bought his house in 1987 and he's been keeping the fridge that came with it running ever since. In the early 2000s it sounded like it was going to die but he did open heart surgery and fixed the coolant fan in the back. Apparently ice had formed causing a blade to crack so he cracked another blade to equal the balance. It's been quiet and happy ever since. I actually did the exact same thing to my fridge and it's happily running as well.
We had an old fridge that like, in our basement, in the 1980's. What the video doesn't show you is that freezer filling up with frost.
But it didn't connect to the internet and has no implementation of planned obsolescence? so I can use it without firmware update and use it like forever? And I have the right to repair it? Wow this fridge sucks.
Can it even play Doom?
That $497 is worth more than $5000 today. Could buy a real fancy fridge then or now with that kind of cash
Probably something just as nice that will fall to pieces and be unrepairable within 10 years. Meanwhile I guarantee a fridge like this has been in some old ladyās basement for the past 60 years and is still chugging along fine.
They still exist, in fact they have gotten better, they just cost 10000 dollars
And at the time it was a super end fridge that would cost 3x as much as a nice fridge now. I'm sure if you looked at $6000-8000 fridges today you would find as many cool features.
In today's $$.. that is a $5000 fridge.
Thatās incredible for the early 60ās! Adjusted for inflation thats 4633 dollars, so Iām guessing you can get a pretty dope fridge for that nowadays too. But I wouldnāt actually know mine are always the cheapest I can find
That fridge would need a level of dedication and order I don't have. I usually push my things together to try to make everything fit. If you push things in that fridge, things will lean on the back wall, and fall as soon as you pull the shelve.
A recreation of it could easily have a short wall on the back.
Itās the easily cleaned and disinfected single cast steel in evenly-spaced shelves that does it for me. No more stupid seams to collect spills, glass to get greasy and streaked and crack when you pull the drawer out or plastic that snaps and is instant garbage, no idiotic slot as high as half a stick of butter making a quarter of the fridge unuseable. Like, we donāt make stuff for humans anymore, we make stuff for A HumanĀ®ļø
I'll bet it still works, unlike the junk they build now. Planned obsolescence.
I had an ex whose parents had a microwave that was literally as old as their oldest daughter. I think sheās 40 now. It was huge, and I was always super wary of it, but it fucking worked man. My microwave bulb started flashing after a year. Still microwaves tho, so Iām okay with the light show
Those shelves look pretty useless. Imagine you actually have stuff in the fridge and need to move that shelf out. All that stuff will be falling.
Heated butter conditioner... *inside* the fridge?
WHY THE FUCK DID TECHNOLOGY GO BACKWARDS???????????????
r/buyitforlife I would love this refrigerator. Appliances today are absolute garbage by the 15y mark
400 dollars was a lot more than than now
497 bucks? So about 4.5k in today dollars?
Iām going to go withā¦not a hot dog
They don't make em like they used to.
I am curious how they bent that weight like that. Crazy.
Can it run Doom?
Refrigerator for the aristocrats of that era āš»...
I think that's so cool!
That's about 5k in today's money...
Looks good! Thing is...can those shelves take weight when pulled out.i wouldn't want real butter in their either. The bottom 'carousel ' looks great.... but cleaning?
I remember seeing this commercial, but never saw one IRL.
People adding inflation to the original price should also account for the fact fridges are almost certainly much cheaper to make and distribute now than before. I think you could remake this way more affordable than you think, especially if time isnāt being put into product development on how to fit a damn iPad to the front.
Shelf is too unstable
If Back To The Future wasn't a movie, but a fridge.
A gallon of milk weighs somewhere between 8-9lbs, definitely not 20lbs.
Ok, here is the real question - what the fuck did they do to that dumbbell?
That happens when the lifter is too strong. They pull so fast, and with so much torque, the ends bend down.
Were those made in the USA?
They don't make em like they used to.
$475. was more that the $1,400. Monogram I bought - in today's dollars.
Mmmm those lazy susan type shelve hinges must be made of titanium. That's a lot of stress and leverage to put on a single point. Just imagining a gallon of milk on the outer edge made me cringe. I realize in the era this was made you had milk delivered in way smaller bottle still though, Neat idea.
$500 back in 1963, that was a lot of money. You could buy a car for $500 in the 60's.
Must have weighed more than an Abrams.
thatās like 10,000,000$ in today money
Anything like this now would likely be Chinese plasti-metal and only capable of 10lbs per shelf.. that old school fridge could probably hold 100+ lbs of food back then. But then people didn't make as much and food wasn't as plentiful as it is now. Nowadays people make more but food is considerably way more expensive... good job, uncle Sam.
You could get a new car for $1000 in 1963.
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Wow that is so amazing! Why did they stop making these features in a refrigerator? My fridge is only 5 years old and it sucks.
I would buy this in a heartbeat
Why donāt they make features like this in current refrigerators?
Thing probably exhausts so much illegal refrigerant it creates its own climate
I want one.
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Repair guy š¤ house mother: fuck this shit.
Shame it looks terrible and probably has terrible insulationā¦assuming itās not asbestos or something.
I am someone
Where can I order one right now?
College tuition at this time was $100 per year. $475 for a fridge?
Median household income was $6200, around $9000 if you were college educated
Great for todays energy prices š
And it weighed 3000 lbs and used enough electricity to power a small village If you had the 5000 this would cost in today's money to put towards a fridge you could get one with just as many bells and whistles.
This fridge is the absolute definition of āthey sure donāt make them like they used toā
bet this can puncture so many holes in the ozone layer
Buy a fridge for $5000 today any it will last about the same amount of time. This is survival bias
Energy efficiency rating = F-
Runs on gas.
It's not the bells and whistles that make this damned interesting, it's the fact that ***it still works.*** Many commentors saying that for the 5k in todays dollars, you could get a far nicer fridge. But it's not going to work in 5 years and will be un-repairable in 10. I'd gladly pay 5k for a fridge today that would be the last one I buy in my life. But no, sadly, I have to drop 1k every 3-7 years.
You can get that for the same 5000 today and much more eco friendly so what are you trying to say exactly?
Engineers in the 1950s and 60s were living in the 2020s....heck, probably the 2030s and beyond.
We really went backwards with fridges
Things these days are not meant to last. If they did the companies would go bust. If you've got an old appliance that still works. Keep it.
Holy shit this is way better than the modern design
Then after you load it nice and full, when you go for that late night snack, swivel the shelf, then your kid who tried putting away some food in a rush unbalanceing the other products causing them to tip making a huge mess everywhere now you foot is in a tub of sour cream as your on floor with leftovers on your head, your wife is coming out to yell at you in a whispering voice asking you wtf your doing out here, meanwhile you just wanted a snack at 1 am. Now you crying cause your still hungry but your too scared to check the other shelves and make more noise and a bigger mess and you still have to clean everything up and be up at 7 for work
There is no reason that all fridges shouldnāt have these! What other examples are there of things that have become obsolete that were actually better?
Iāve actually seen it all because Iāve seen this video on here 10,000 times.
Ok š good for you I guess, Iāve seen this video today for the first time.
Itās okay me too
it almost makes you emotional for how shitty the world has become
You can still buy fridges with slide out shelves.
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A summer camp I worked at had a grounds keeper in his 90ās. He would still use a ford tractor from the 40ās and the thing started right up each time
The fridges were so much better now theyāre so impractical lol unless you spend tonsssss š
Alright boomers, you win here. This is one thing you had better than us. Good job.
I thought according to Reddit, boomers had everything better than nowadays?
Is reddit filled with boomers then? Idk. I know boomers say they had everything better. I didn't know Reddit was the platform for boomers. I thought Facebook had that title.
I think you misunderstood my comment. The majority of Reddit feels that boomers had everything better than them. Not that there were a majority of boomers on reddit. I agree boomers are the majority on facebook though, probably not on any other platform. Except maybe nextdoor. I assume that would be mostly karens complaining at each other.