re: Buying a new fridge.. $2k budget..any definite BUYS or AVOIDS?

We just bought all Frigidaire Gallery appliances and love them. The stainless finish doesn't smudge at all.

Electrolux French door with sliding shelf $2400

I have a Samsung with the French Doors on top and drawer freezer on the bottom. It has an ice maker but not in the door. No water suspenser either..... all that shite breaks. My advice is to get the most basic model that would look good in your house.

we've got this guy:

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this was a new model about 18 months ago so you can probably get it for cheaper than MSRP on the LG website (3400)

its got a TON of storage

we've never had to try and figure out where to make more space

there's also 3 separate drawers in the freezer which is nice because you're not stacking shite up

also the ice machine makes ice quickly and its a large opening which works great for pitchers, i'll usually put beers in my soft ice chest and just stick the ice chest right in the slot to put ice in there.

I strongly recommend

also has an air purifier in case some food gets old, you never notice the smell

and the alarm for when the wife leaves the door open

CAD, you can get any good brand french door, bottom freezer fridge for that $2,000 budget. I got an LG for my new house with all that stuff, a separate smaller freezer drawer and the water/ice in the door for like $1700 at Costco during Black Friday.

Frigidaire and LG are some good brands. I think Kenmore is the Sears brand and even Samsung is getting into the mix. You really can't go wrong, it's a fridge.

In my first home I bought a Frigidaire that had the french doors and bottom freezer drawer. It has probably lasted close to five years now and it was a stainless steel model, so it still looks great.

Like I said, you really can't go wrong with LG or Frigidaire.

We went with whirlpool, and are very pleased. I talked to a few people at Best Buy, Lowes, and Home Depot, and their advice was to stay away from Samsung (was told at one place that around 1 in 5 are returned). Try and go with something American, like Whirlpool, Kenmore, GE, etc because I was told if it comes to repairs, it is much easier to get parts and service as opposed to foreign brands like Samsung, LG, etc. Not quite sure why that would be an issue, but multiple people brought that up.

2 cents given.

Bought a GE side by side 25 cf in the color slate and is smudge proof. Didn't want stainless and husband insisted on smudge proof (I agreed) but many of them to me looked cheap but were super $$$. It wasn't worth it to me to pay more than we did. Really like it .. no issues other than it took a while to make enough ice and if we're going to have a LOT of people over, I'll need to buy ice but no biggie. Think it was $1400? at Lowes.