Thank you ladies for your comments.

I don't feel slighted now... Geeze only 10-15 years is the life span??

Replacing TV and other appliances every 5 years?? That's really too short I think. Thank goodness we gave up on TVs years ago.

Anyway, I hope to have a new fridge next week. Meanwhile we will make do with our deep freezer and our other fridge in the garage. Bit of a pain but beats going out for dinner every day or having to throw food away...

We decided not to get the Fisher Paykel fridge. Simply because it didn't have the energy star rating. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM??? We also hated the stainless steel look so avoided all those. We ended up with white enamel finish fridge. It's much bigger than what we were looking for but it had a deeper bins for the veggies, nice baskets for the freezer section... And the ice maker, which we never use, is tiny so we are happy. My pocket book is on life support now. The other nice thing is that we got over 20% discount on it Year End Sale Yipppeeee . I wonder if I can talk my partner into finding a second job though ...