gnomi | Pre-Pesach Pondering Part II

So, back in October, we celebrated the holidays of Shmini Atzeret and Simchat Torah at the end of the holiday of Sukkot. And, don'cha know, erev Shmini Atzeret, our refrigerator died. Not a good thing at any time, but an especially bad thing right before a yom tov (and, in this case, a yom tov-yom tov-Shabbat situation). In a fit of "what the heck are we going to do,"

mabfan and I used our copious (ha!) between-work-and-yom-tov time to run out to our local Best Buy and purchase a larger-than-cube-but-not-gigantic fridge to get us through until our fridge could be replaced. Mini fridge worked beautifully over yom tov, and then once we got the new fridge, the mini was unplugged and put into a corner of our kitchen (because

mabfan and I agreed that making space for it was better than carrying it down 3 flights of stairs).

Fast forward to yesterday. I'm sitting at work implementing a bunch of not-so-brain-requiring edits (like removing headers and footers that don't belong) and pondering the pre-Pesach prep that has to still happen. And I got to thinking about that mini fridge. And it hit me -- why not plug in the mini and put it to use over Pesach. I bounced the idea of using the mini (either to hold the perishables we're going to sell or to replace the main fridge for the week) off

mabfan, who endorsed the second option.

And thus shall we do. On Sunday, I'll clean the mini inside and out (though I cleaned it back in October before relegating it to the corner) and clean the outside of the main fridge, and then when we're doing the final pre-Pesach run through, I'll tape the main fridge and freezer closed and designate them as containing sold chametz. And this will take a gigantic chunk out of the work that has to be done pre-Pesach.