[Mark Henry]

21 years ago we were paying a huge mortgage to fast track early payment and had just had our daughter when the fridge died. Not having any extra cash we bought the cheapest White-Westinghouse we could and not even a month later it died. They installed a new compressor and the repair guy said whatever we do don't sell the fridge, because the replacement compressor is a commercial unit worth more than the fridge itself. We were all mad at WW because it took almost 6 weeks to get our new fridge repaired. I asked the repair guy why so long and he smiled and said this expensive compressor was the only one they could find to fit...and WW didn't want to spring for it. He figured they were trying to wait me out and that my calling them daily finally made them cave in.

So 20 years later we're not so poor, our kitchen needs a redo, we have this beautiful Garland (later became Bluestar) pro/residential gas range, but a cheap white fridge.
I'd love to surprise the wife with a new modern fridge...but every time I start looking my research points to how big of a POS even the high end new fridges are.

Maybe I'll just keep the old fridge, put it in a cabinet and mount new door faces on the old fridge doors.