Eight days shy of nine years ago, I got lucky when my new fridge I had purchased arrived hours after the previous unit died.

Today, I got texts about thawed meat in the freezer, and by the time I got home, the fridge was up to about 60°F.

Since the display is showing nonsense for the fridge and freezer temperatures, it’s the control board (just like last time) with a one-year warranty, not the refrigeration system with a ten-year warranty, which means there’s no point in trying to repair it.

Our first fridge in this house, a GE, lasted a bit over ten years. This second, an LG, lasted slightly less. I’ve heard definitely do not buy a Samsung fridge from a lot of people, so what next? I got a recommendation for Whirlpool. Maybe we’ll try that?

But in any case, full-size fridge delivery is at best a few days out, and many are a week or a month or more out.

So while we work on finding a new full-size fridge that will work well for us and can be delivered in reasonable time, I found an inexpensive fridge not that much different from the one that Technology Connections covered except that it’s not retro-style red. So… I have now ordered the same thermostatic controller he did to make it work better, initially as an emergency fridge, and later as an occasional backup fridge.