(Note: If any of you are wondering why these are on our front porch, read this first.) So, the hubs and I sat at the table waiting for the boys to finish their lunch and we started talking. You know, how husbands and wives should talk about things and share with one another our thoughts and feelings. We started talking about the new center attraction that takes up the front of the house. That blocks any sunlight from coming into our nice big window. You see since those lovelies have been there, I haven’t been able to watch the comings and goings of things in the parking lot across the street. Instead, I think about refrigerators. We talk about refrigerators. Josh (hubs) thought it would be a great idea to list 101 things to do with refrigerators. I can’t come up with 101 things, but in chatting with Coree, we came up with the following. Please feel free to add to the list! What great fun this will be and oh the laughs we can all get out of it! There are 2 refrigerators out there and both are the side-by-side types which means 4 doors. Shelves are adjustable and there are drawers. (Just helping the creative juices flow more.)
- Turn the frig on it’s back and get some friends and can sit side-by-side in the side-by-side frig and go down a hill with ice — doubles bob-sledding.
- Take the doors and use them for snow sledding.
- Use upright as extra shelving for storage. (Hubs)
- An elective class for homeschoolers — fix’n frigs (would that be mechanics or something?).
- Turn over as a table. (Hubs)
- Place bricks under the doors as benches. (Hubs)
- Make 2 picnic tables for Park Pritchett. (Hubs)
- Make an outdoor bath. (Coree)
- Make a water fountain. (Coree)
- Other types of water features anyone?
- Make a lily pond and use it as science experiments. (Coree)
- Fishing bowl/pond thingy where the kids can go fishing. (Coree)
- Harvest games — bobbing for apples. (Coree)
- Big sand boxes — one for cats and one for kids (if only cats could be happy with just one).
- Make into an elevator for a really big sturdy tree house.
- Turn on it’s side longways and stack — book shelves.
- Take to local cabinet shop that does custom residential cabinets (and very nice ones too if anyone needs a referral) for them to use as a template when designing cabinets to go around refrigerators or as a display item to show what the finished product will look like around a refrigerator. (Hubs)
- Boats (does anyone know if refrigerators float? If they don’t, then the boat idea would sink. [tee-hee-hee] ).
- Put wheels and a motor on them and enter kids in the next homemade derby race.
- Planters for flowers, herb garden, or veggies (lots of potatoes!).
Ok, there’s a start…anyone got more?
You're very unique and funky (Josh would say "quirky"), yet you still have a bit of traditionalism to you. People who like you think they have great taste... and they usually do.
I was thinking wheels! Then I read #19…so I am out of ideas. I know I don’t get a ribbon for creativity.
I like the planter box idea…
Ummm….HELLO RED!? Are you out here in blog world?? I haven’t seen you in a while…making sure you didn’t climb into one of the fridges before they were wisked away!!
Haha, I like the elevator for a tree house idea. Might want to hire a contractor for that one, though.
I hear you can turn one into an incubator, feed storage for animals or a brooder for chicks.
I have an old fridge with the freezer on top…lay it on it’s back, remove the doors, install some waterjets and plumb the fridge side for a jacuzzi, and fill the freezer side with ice and beer. Now that’s recreation!
Lay on its side and make a workbench. Can make a work bench top from lumber, and even face frame it and hang doors on it to have concealed storage.
Yep a fridge will float but you may get your feet a fuzz wet. Thought you’d like to know!
a wardrobe or linen cupboard ………….boring but great use of American fridge