Of course my parents reaction to "electric company charge me $500" is "you should fight with your landlord to get him to buy you a new refrigerator" I do not have the energy for this sorry
UAhh I'm gonna be sick ! OH
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in reply to @masklayer's post:
let me do it. i can scream for one hour straight
thank you but the larger concern for me is: I don't want the landlord to hate us or raise rent out of spite / because of us asking for new appliances since I need to live here for at least another year and it's already basically the absolute max I can comfortably afford and I couldn't find anything cheaper
as someone who upgraded from a 30 year old fridge with bad sealing so it was constantly running with a brand new one with that new fangled propane cooling system in 2018; didn't save us that much money.
yeah I don't know what to expect but also we know that this one was running like hot enough my parents thought it was a fire hazard, so this one might have problems that are making it less efficient, there's a possibility there's a real efficiency gain here, and if the electric bill is gonna just randomly cost $200 more than usual on top of the billing fuckup making it 5x as much as usual I might be willing to pay for a new one - I just don't think I have the energy to figure this out
it'll likely save us a lot of money over its entire lifespan but not in a year. It certainly won't save you enough to be worth the time it'll take to fight for it. land lords aren't required to provide you with efficient appliances, just (barely) functional ones).