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?

True 🤣

😂😂

I thought you meant one of these ...

A Guide to Community Fridges in the UK and Around the World (unsustainablemagazine.com)

#OhDear

Best post ever.

I have so many questions 🤣

How many people is "everyone"?

If you paid £50, how big is the fridge?

Did you get a receipt?

Do you own a percentage?

Do you pay towards electricity and is it covered under home insurance if the electricity goes out?

How are repair costs allocated?

Does the fridge move house?

Did you get a say in the colour?

Is there a vegetarian section?

What happens if food goes past its best before date?

How do you arrange access?

What happens after summer?

How is food identified? Post it note? Shelf?

Do you have a communal cleaner?

OP, please post at Christmas and tell us how everyone has fallen out as nobody can fit their extra beer and pre-prepared veg in the communal fridge as the Fridge Controller has already filled it with reduced price M&S trifle and vol au vents for his Xmas Eve Soiree. I predict street riots!

It's weird it's in someone's house. There's one accross the road from me. They have a freezer as well. But it's in a community centre not a residential property. It's a good idea to reduce food waste. But is there anywhere else it could go. Bit pointless if he's the only one using it. If not get together with the other neighbours who contributed and go and tell him you want your money back.

Are you normally this gullible? 😬

oh my, they saw you coming from a mile off. Who pays £50 for a fridge that’ll be kept in someone else’s house. I’m sure if you’re skint and have no space but need more fridge space, you can get a good, small used under counter fridge for £50. I can’t with this post, like the whole neighbourhood was gullible enough that they all paid £50 each and no one challenged it.

This is the strangest thing I’ve ever read on here!

I've never heard anything so ridiculous.

Amazing. Almost as brazen as a man on my local FB page that posted a picture of his downstairs loo that needed redecorating asking if any trainee painters wanted to come and practice painting it! He offered to provide the paint, but no paintbrushes or other equipment so the lucky apprentice would have to bring that themselves.

Can you sublet your space!? 🤣

My new favourite thread, please comeback @Frannni 😆

You need to "chill"

What a cool response (and made me smile).

We have access to a community fridge, which is what I initially thought you were talking about. We all paid a contribution to buy the fridge and freezer, but then the neighbours go on a rota to various local supermarkets where they are given yellow sticker items that are stored in the fridge and freezer for people to take and eat. The idea is to avoid food wastage and it works really well. It is not an extra storage device for household purchases. I have never heard of this arrangement!

Maybe the OP means a community fridge https://hubbub.org.uk/community-fridge-network
OP, it should be located in a public area.

I expected it to be about food pantries.

firstly the fridge is kept at neighbour Xs house

What were you expecting? Some kind of shared custody agreement whereby he drops it off at yours every other week and you alternate Christmases?

Who the fuck has a ‘communal’ fridge and more importantly, why would you not have considered the blindingly obvious pitfalls of this plan before giving your neighbour £50?

Batshit and hilarious in equal measures.
imagine being the one whose house it is in and neighbours constantly knocking for the ham and milk 😄

Neighbour X's fridge broke and you dumb fools paid for a replacement

When I read about scams I always wonder how people could be so gullible to be taken in...but this just takes the biscuit. Why anyone would think paying a neighbour 50 quid for a share in a fridge in the neighbour's property was a good idea is just beyond me.
Please say that not all the neighbours chipped in, surely some of them must have retained their mental faculties.

If you did manage to secure space in the fridge, what arrangements are in place for accessing it if you need your stuff when the neighbour's away?

So neighbour X got the street to crowdfund their new fridge? That's some top tier cf-ery (with a touch of geniosity).

You'd have been better to spend your 50 quid on a second hand one from FB marketplace.