For the love of god, please, do not unplug the freezer for any reason. Even if you are working on some project involving saws and drill presses, and you cannot find another outlet, please, for my sanity. DO NOT UNPLUG THE FREEZER!@!@!!
However, if you MUST unplug the freezer, please do not forget to plug it back on. Plugging the freezer back in a week after you unplugged it, does not constitute "remembering" to plug the freezer back in after said project.
There is a wonder called refridgeration. It makes food cold so it doesn't spoil as fast. Food like the 100 pounds of Alaskan halibut that I caught when visiting my parents in October. All I have to say is THANK GOD it was frozen again or it would have reeked even more than it did just now. And it was easy to clean up but you can bet your ass I am not mopping up the frozen rotten fish gunk from the bottom of the freezer. That's your job mister.
Now, husband or future husband, did you wonder why the garage smelled like fish? For at least a week? My god, I knew there was a reason why I only go in there once in a while. I mourn the loss of my halibut. Fresh from the ocean. Fish I could probably not buy in a store inland for less than $20 a pound, if you can find it at all.
But us wives love you anyway. Because you're fun to be around, you're thoughtful (even if you aren't thinking clearly) and you make us laugh, even about the stupid things you do when power tools are involved.
That's SO much worse than my recent run-in with an unplugged fridge that, while empty, had been left shut ... nice black mildew on every surface & a rather funky smell when opened.
Thank goodness for the Clorox CleanUp! (of course that didn't help the chlorine smell I'd had in my nose since the day before when I cleaned up the bathroom)
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Now, husband or future husband, did you wonder why the garage smelled like fish? For at least a week?
My god, that's hilarious. My mind works exactly like that. I've been known to see or smell something out of place, think about it a moment, and move on and forget it completely. Needless to say I've had some fun retribution because of that, as does your husband, apparently. /grin
This is a reminder that the garage is for my @#$% tools and for me to work on my projects. If you value me letting you borrow space in my garage for yoru things and for storing of your food. Then you will take the necesary action of checking it every day and twice on weekends. If you dont then how do I @$% know its that valuable to you? My tools are worth there weight in gold, and if they need power then your going to have to forfiet your rental of my garage, and when I give it back to you you should make sure its in the condition that it was before i took it over.
Now I know this may not be fair, so in all fairness I will give you the oporunity to make a decesion on how you want to go about this not happening again.
A) I can now purchase cordless tools when available to replace some of my corded tools.
B) I can hire someone to come add more electrical outlets here. And while we're at it add more cabinets and space so I can keep more tools
C) I will forfiet the rights to the garage if I am able to build a shed of equal or greater size on the side or rear of the house, this shed must have electricity as well as plumbing.
If these demands are not met, god rest your poor fishes soul.
B) I can hire someone to come add more electrical outlets here. And while we're at it add more cabinets and space so I can keep more tools
Best gift I've ever gotten was from my mom when she hired an electrician to come add about 12 more electrical outlets in my rec room and put the entire room on it's own um, English word not clicking, channel? Circutry? Fuse? Damn, can't remember the correct phrase, well anyway it was the best present ever. Vote for the future (of expandability). Vote option B.
PS: if you think dead rotting fish smells bad try dead shark that's been buried for 2 weeks. Sad thing? That's the shark that's finally ready to be eaten, so I don't get to throw it out of the fridge, as much as I'd love to.
Ya know, even though I'm guilty of it, it's amazing that guys put up with us women with all of the double standards we pull. We get pissed if they misplace our stuff, even when it's our stuff that's in their space to begin with. Man, women are f'ed up.
I commend the guys who can tolerate women...even if you guys are f'ups sometimes.
Best gift I've ever gotten was from my mom when she hired an electrician to come add about 12 more electrical outlets in my rec room and put the entire room on it's own um, English word not clicking, channel? Circutry? Fuse?
I think you were looking for "circuit" or "circuit breaker"?
PS: if you think dead rotting fish smells bad try dead shark that's been buried for 2 weeks. Sad thing? That's the shark that's finally ready to be eaten, so I don't get to throw it out of the fridge, as much as I'd love to.
Oh GOD Lutefisk! I had to cover a lutefisk dinner a few weeks ago. I actually tried it so I could report on it better. BARF! It really took supreme effort of will to NOT throw up in a room full of hundreds of people.
Ah and another surprise. Some of the rotten fish gunk flowed into an ice cube tray! How fun! Fishcicles!
The Clorox Clean-Up really is good for getting rid of the smelly stuff in the fridge/freezer - I suggest you give your hubby a bottle of it and a sponge, and point him towards the garage freezer.
I've never had the misfortune to smell lutefisk, the Icelandic 'ethnic delicacies' are enough thank-you-very-much.
Interesting trivia though, the type of shark that's eaten here has to be rotted due to the ammonia content. By burying it and letting it rot a bit the ammonia gets leeched out to safe levels. If you eat that species fresh there's a high chance of falling dangerously ill as opposed to the just gross that the rotted is. Of course if it ever came down to it in a survival situation I'd rather eat the people I were with than ever eat a shark, no matter how safe it is. Familiarity really does breed contempt, because after growing up with this stuff around I think it's vile beyond belief. Seafood + time != good.
I personally go with the Terry Pratchett definition for 'traditional ethnic delicacies', that it's a test administered to outsiders to see how gullible they are. I mean geez, you think people would actually eat the things they try to feed tourists after pizza has been discovered? :p Except the old and the insane.
This thread just reminded me that when I moved out of my parents place 5 years ago that my mini fridge had a gallon of milk in it....Wonder if its still there.
