There goes 200 dollars

My husband didn't totally close our freezer door once when I was out of town.

Ugh, what a pain. I'm sure you could have done without that.

It hasn't happened to us only because the fridge and freezer sections both have an alarm. If the door is not shut properly an alarm goes off to let us know. It goes off more than I like.

Not the same scenario but we recently replaced our main kitchen fridge and will soon replace our second fridge in the pantry ... the old fridges just sucked energy and we were paying through the nose ... now we have energy efficient so hopefully our monthly bill will reflect that   

OMG yes I did that once when I was a teenager. My family didn't have a lot of money and I did this at the freezer in the basement where my poor mom had carefully stocked up on meat whenever it was on sale, plus frozen veggies from my dads garden.
Please give your kid a hug for me, because I still feel bad when I think about it and I'm 50.

Oh no! I'm so sorry! That's a huge loss.

I haven't had it that bad but more than once, my total tightwad, but absentminded husband has taken things out of the freezer and set them on the W/D while looking for something else where he will forget them completely. Nothing like finding several pounds of ground beef stagnating a couple of days later!

We had to restock ours twice in the same year-the first time was due to Hurricane Ike and the second time was due to the power going out while we were on vacation. It was an expensive year!

Not the same, but my ex had once bought chicken breasts on the way home from work, planning on bbq-ing them (he hadn't told me of this plan and I made dinner, as usual). Well, when he arrived home, he forgot the chicken in the trunk. In Georgia. In August.

I found it six days later when I needed to borrow his car.



Reminds me of another gross food story about my ex. (Hope you don't mind the hijack)

Have I ever told you about the time he helped me put away the groceries and I found the potatoes, now in liquid form, five or six weeks later, in the utility closet?

Why would one put a bag of potatoes with the hot water heater? I have no idea.

Oh no, that stinks! Just happened to us as well about a month ago. My husband cleaned out garage and accidentally unplugged freezer. Lost everything as well. What a mess.

My sister had a pet pig for about a year, with the intention of growing it into a few nice dinners. So the pig gets old enough/big enough, and the pig is killed and butcher that my sister is friends with cut it up.
I think the whole family received meat from this pig, but most of it was in my sister's freezer. Until her 4-year old unplugged the freezer. We never got a good explanation as to why the 4-year old would unplug anything, but, you know, she was 4.

So a year of fattening up the pig went to waste. But it's a funny story. And we did get to enjoy some of the meat.

Does it count if you did it yourself? I have. On my old freezer the door didn't shut well so you had to pay attention when you closed it. There were at least 2 times I had to replace all the food (and ice cream dammit) that wasn't all the way in the back.

Done it - we have an upright freezer and I had gotten something out, thought I had closed the door, but something was sticking out. That night I had felt some cool air in our bedroom. Ha, the next morning there was water on the floor and about half the contents was defrosting. I had to clean it out and cook quickly. I now push twice

Not quite the same, but some element in my refrigerator died while I was out of town just recently and what I came home to was so bad that I had to throw out every. single. thing in both my refrigerator and freezer-because the funk permeated into everything and effected the taste of even things you would have expected to be okay.

Although, I have to say, my fridge is cleaner than it has been in years. I had to use a toothbrush to clean in the little nooks and crannies to get all the funk out. lol

Awww man! That's a bummer!

But hey... I can cheer you up... bless my 16-yo son.
Last month he broke two... not one... but TWO flat screen tvs in about a 30 minute time period.
He was rearranging the loft (where the boys have a "gaming station" and fun room set up.

Ugh.

been there.

My dd had an apartment where the freezer door would sneak open if she wasn't careful. her SO had to replace food once when he didn't check to see if it was closed.