OT- Sometimes you can't catch a break

Oh Kat, sorry to hear about this.  How frustrating!  Don't open the fridge until you can come up with a game plan -- keep the cold air inside for now.  Some suggestions: 

First, check your breaker box, and make sure it's not a thrown breaker that shut off the electricity to the fridge.

Second, check to see if your kitchen has "GFI" outlets . . . these are the outlets that have the little "test" buttons on them.  Several outlets may be wired into the "test" circuit in the kitchen.  Hit the "reset" button.  Note:  Check all the outlets you have that have a "test" button on them, and reset it.  FYI -- I thought my freezer in the basement had quit, turns out the outlet where the freezer was plugged in was on the same circuit as the bathroom and its' little "test" outlet.  Once I hit "reset" in the bathroom, the freezer in the basement came back on as well! 

If it's still not working, see if your local grocery store has "dry ice".   My grocery store keeps it in a separate freezer near the frozen goods.  You can use the dry ice to put in your fridge and keep the foods cold until they are ready to use.  Dry ice will keep cold foods cold, and frozen foods frozen.

Finally, you can keep food for quite awhile in coolers if necessary.  Pack all the frozen foods together in one cooler, preferably with a block of ice, and shut the lid until you absolutely have to open it.  Keep cold foods in another cooler, again with ice.  You may have to change out the ice several times and use several coolers, and it will be a total pain, but it works!

Thinking of you and hoping you find a solution.

Believe me, Honey, it could be worse. Something like this happened to me but worse - our septic tank backed up and we were without bathroom all weekend. And when I say "we" I mean we and our company of new son-in-law and his parents and grandparents. Just when we wanted to impress these people with our beautiful beach front home and show them off.

Our next door neighbours were kind enough to let us use one of their bathrooms. So there - feeling better yet???? 

Curly, that sucks.  I'm also having company and would flip out if this happened to me.

We bought a fridge from Sears with warranty.  This was years ago.  Then we had a baby.  Guess what.  The fridge went out.  Had to use coolers for her formula.  They replaced the fridge.  Went out again and had another baby.  Used the cooler again.  It happened a third time. YES, A THIRD TIME!  Glad we bought insurance which we usually don't.  We went to the store and picked out a new fridge.  They wanted to charge us "rent" on the lemon fridge!  I said NO WAY!  We didn't ask for a lemon.  I was adamant!! And very young..probably the first time I ever spoke up for myself.  We upgraded and weren't charged for the "rent."  I shoulda charged them for the inconvenience.  They would take our old fridge, give us a loaner....a DIRTY loaner that I had to clean first. 

It's okay to be upset.  You'r normal. 

Shirley