A Tale of Three Fridges

I found the camera!  Matt thought I had lost it (he didn't actually say that, but I could tell by his annoyance that I hadn't found it yet that he thought it was my fault) - BUT it was in HIS bag.  Booya!

Anyways... this is how we've been living for 3 weeks:

Yeah, that's where the fridge is supposed to go.  Only we don't have one.  Well, we do - we have our old one out in the garage and then we have this.

That ugly, super-dated mini fridge that once sat in Matt's dorm.  It the faux wood exterior that screams 1994.  Unfortunately, I've had to depend on this ugly sucker for the last couple of weeks for the essentials inside while we've kept less-used things in the fridge outside.  Not horrible, but not super convenient, either.  I wanted to wait until we cleared out most of the boxes before bringing anything else into the house.  Plus, I didn't feel like dropping a bunch a money right after moving so we waited a minute to lessen the blow.  Lowe's was having a pretty good sale MLK weekend so we took advantage of it and now have this beauty!

Fun fact: Most stainless steel refrigerators aren't completely stainless steel.  Most of them only have a stainless front and the other three sides are black.  That infuriated Matt and I when we found this out when we got to the store.  Our preference is black appliances anyways (can't you see the fingerprints on that fridge already?!) so when you're paying more for stainless - the rest of the kitchen already had stainless in so we had to do stainless for the fridge - I expect to get the entire thing in stainless.  Most options were either a grey color to make the side appear stainless (it didn't appear stainless) or black.  We went with black sides since most of the other appliances have black on them and there is black in the counter tops.  So there you have it - we now own a black, brown and stainless refrigerator!