I fully recognize that the majority of the population just buys shit based on looks & price alone, and doesn't invest the brainspace to such things as comparison shopping the hell out of major appliances. Alas, I am not one of them.

I'm STILL in the hunt for a fridge, Dave pulled out the cabinet blocking the way to new fridge glory back on VALENTINE'S DAY, and I still don't have a new fridge. The one that I'd been circling like a shark at our scratch and dent sold, literally, the Monday after V-day, and so the first loop I got in was "that was such a great deal, nothing else compares!" Yeah.

Now, I'm looking again as our local appliance store (I would really rather buy from them than the big box, for many reasons) is having a "warehouse sale" in two weeks, and because I have a very specific arrangement that I want — 30" wide, white, bottom freezer — there are only a handful of models that even meet that requirement.

So while Dave was camping this weekend, I was back on the prowl yet again. I've basically narrowed it down to one of 2 GE models, and one LG model.

There are three from GE that would fit, and work, the two lower priced have a freezer door instead of a drawer, and smaller, adjustable bins on the fridge door and the difference is about $400. (The only difference I can find between the two in the $800 range is an icemaker, which I don't care about.) There is one from LG, a french door model, that has all the groovy configurable stuff, but the freezer drawer is plastic instead of wire and just feels a little less.. durable. Or something. But I don't know if that's because the doors are half size, either, you know?

But, good god, researching those? Apparently, LG sucks and GE is where you should go. Unless you have a GE fridge, then you should really check out LG. And not to mention, BOTH companies have sucky info on their webpages — terrible photos, if they even HAVE any interior shots, and no explanation of their features, or images to show what the hell they are talking about. Great. One has a "Sweet spot" shelf. WTF does that mean? They don't say. And GE's comparison tool just looks at the text, so one of the differences it highlighted was because one said "adjustable, split" and the other said "adjustable split." OMMFG.

So, both of you still reading, tell me about your fridge. Did your GE catch fire? Does your LG make birds sing? And if you have a bottom freezer, door or drawer? I'm putting photos in, just because I can. I feel like the LG (bottom, but it would be in white and not stainless) seems like the most configurable of the three, but worry that a company that makes a great cell phone might fuck up the fridge. And searching, god, people will ALWAYS bitch about what goes wrong, but not say much about what goes RIGHT, right? Which is also part of why I want to use the locals, if something goes wrong, I don't have to go through a Home Depot offshore call center phone tree. Right? (Local co. sells both brands.) Prices (from Home Depot's site, local is always similar) are 800, 1200, and 1200.

So really, and even if it's not these brands, what drives you nuts about your fridge? Is there a feature you can't imagine ever doing without again? Is a drawer and configurable bins really worth 400 bucks?