Clean Out Your Fridge for Two Reasons a Year
This weekend our fridge went out. It kinda threw my Sunday night off because I had to transfer things into our ‘extra’ fridge in the garage (I swear that makes me feel affluent) at 11:00 PM instead of going to bed. Our kitchen fridge got the works from my wife today and it appears that it may be coming back to life due to not having ice build up and a banana frozen over one of the circulation vents. We should be cleaning out our fridge & freezer at least once a year to keep it running efficiently so we’re not paying extra for the already expensive cost of running a fridge every day, twenty-four hours a day.
The second reason that everyone should keep their fridge clean is this: when you keep food around on a Just in Time (JIT) basis, you don’t waste as much food. When I worked in retail during my formative college years we learned about JIT because it allowed us to sell our last or second to last of an item and then order in a replacement, often receiving it the next day. This was great for back-catalog options that sold fewer and it kept the store’s cost to run down to a minimum. The same goes for left-over food. If you have left-overs (and you should, it can help you create two meals a day) make sure they don’t become left-for-the-dogs or left-for-dead. Efficiency in your fridge on two levels will help you keep your budget in line and help you save up for big-ticket items that were out of reach because of nickel-and-diming your were doing to yourself. Or better yet, take that saved money and set it aside for retirement! By then you’ll be able to afford one of the food replicators that we only see in TV and the movies 
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