Living without a fridge.

Call it a fad, but minimalizing my life goes on. Next up: my fridge.

As I'm pretty much allergic to anything that HAS to be stored in a fridge (like milk, butter, yogurt, cheese and anything else related to the joys of grain, bread, pizza, pasta etc etc) and my big fridge always looked so empty, I had started storing unnecessary things in there: preserves that had not yet been opened, fruits & veggies (they do perfectly well in a cool, dark spot outside the fridge), makeup, leftovers from friend's fridges (like 4 different jars of mustard! I never even eat mustard!) and so on.

I have now cleared my fridge of anything that will survive outside without problems, and well... it's fucking empty! Okay, there's a bit of bacon still in there but bacon never sees the light of the next day at my place... usually. Mhmmm, bacon. Erm... back to topic.

Anything I want to keep for longer (like meat, leftover veggies & berries from my garden, leftover dye vats (say nothing... I can't throw it out if there's still colour in there... even more so when I spent half a year carefully peeling red onion skins from every single onion I used) and meal leftovers) I keep in my lovely big ass freezer in the hall. And I won't get rid of this piece of icy goodness anytime soon.

But why should I have a freezer AND a fridge as big as myself if I don't even use both? Haven't checked yet, but it even might save me quite a bit on my electricity bill, as the fridge is well over 15 years old and surely noms away on energy. Edit: I just typed the specs of my fridge into some online calculator and it tells me I'll save more than 900 kWh / year — that's 18 Euros / month (214 Euro per year! OMG!) —  on my electricity bill, just by switching off my useless fridge. OMFG. 

My plan: for two months, see how it goes with your fridge unplugged and if it works, just get rid of it. Preserving stuff? Freezer. Cold drinks in summer? Granite ice cubes (they're so cool!). Veggies & Fruit? cool & dark place somewhere. Eggs? They keep them unrefrigerated at the store, do they not? Let the experiment begin!