Disagree with communal fridge

[Frannni]

Our neighbour, we shall call them “neighbour X” recentl started a discussion on the street WhatsApp about needing a communal fridge so anyone on the street can store excess fridge stuff over the summer. Everyone chipped in and “neighbour x” bought the fridge.

I am starting to get a bit miffed about it all, as firstly the fridge is kept at neighbour Xs house, which means they kind of control it. Secondly, we needed to use it recently to store excess drinks as we were having people over. Guess what, it was full so no use at all.

What has really annoyed me is that I have since heard it was mainly full due to neighbour X filling it with their own stuff. I am feeling really annoyed that we chipped in £50 for something we cannot even use when we need it. AIBU?

X has played a blinder. The chutzpah!

Buy a cool box.

Hard to believe so many people could be conned into paying 50 quid for a communal fridge.

A friend is partly German and she has always done the German thing of having a store of non-perishables, in Germany people had a cellar where they kept all this. She ordered stuff every six months and her in-laws here in UK thought this was hilarious, until 2020 when she'd done the 'big order' in February, just before the start of lockdown and shortages. Her MIL decided that the family should share everything, they were expected to take all their loo rolls, pasta etc to MIL's house and she would see to the 'sharing'. I think my friend is still laughing!

I can’t decide what’s weirder, someone coming up with this idea and actually suggesting it out loud, or that people heard this is batshit crazy idea and went along with it.

I am also off to read the lasagna thread.

Have you gone to the neighbours to have it out with them OP?

Come back and tell us more stuff!

How big is the fridge?

What happens if stuff gets left in it out of date or eaten by accident?

Does everyone have a separate shelf? How does this work, is their raw meat on the same shelf next to cheese?

Who cleans it?

Is it a fridge freezer? Did you see a receipt for how much it cost? CF neighbour could have taken £50 off 10 of you and bought one off eBay for £30 and kept the rest of the cash to fill it with steak, lobster, champagne etc… whilst the rest of you have overflowing fridges.

Why is there more excess food in summer? Surely Christmas is the time you buy extra and need more fridge space, people go on holidays in summer.

What do you do if CF neighbours go away or on holiday? Do you all have a key?

Why did you go along with this? How was it sold to you and what convinced you?

Who decided it was to be kept at the neighbours?

What happens if two people arrive with armfuls of stuff that needs refrigerating at the same time?

Why were you taking drinks there? Surely you’d take excess food you weren’t using and keep the drinks in your fridge so you don’t have to keep going to the neighbours when someone needs a glass topping up.

I have so many more questions including where have you gone?! You can’t leave us all wondering like this.

I thought from the title that it was a disgruntled student in a flat share!

why on earth did you pay for this?!

Where is the lasagna thread!?

Well ain’t that the truth.

The OP and all the neighbours have been well and truly played.

Hes conned you into buying him a new fridge and you fell for it. Most stupid idea ever (for everyone except him!)

Not even in the German Democratic Republic, where I was an exchange student, did they have 'communal fridges' for adults!!!! Students had them, true.

Gather enough neighbours and you'll be able to stash a freestanding walk-in down the allotments, and no-one will ever need to dig up their patio. Years later there will be an escalating allotment dispute over wonky vegetables and an heirloom scythe, the police will make a gruesome discovery, and the cases of multiple missing spouses will be resolved.

Nuts

This is the most ridiculous idea ever.

That’s never going to work

This is the craziest thing I've ever heard 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣
You made my day OP

😂😂

Has the OP done a Boris?

Depending on how many lots of £50, the fridge could well be a walk-in, true

I’d ask to use it one more time, and if it’s a no again, I’d be asking my money back. What a cheeky F.

Are you normally this guilable and easy to scam because I could do with £50 for a communal handbag. If you could send the money to 47 he saw you coming street Manchester

Come on...

Tbf I think we are the gullable ones.

Wtaf? Bonkers idea if you can’t access it when needed. Why not just buy another fridge for your house? (Like I did, plus a fuck off huge freezer for the dog food) Are you going speak to the neighbour and moan if it’s all his stuff in there? How can you ever know if there’s room? Won’t Christmas (or any other religious holiday) be a trauma? So many questions!