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Your second refrigerator: a helpful and well-used appliance for the home, or $280 a year spent only to cool a dozen beers or sodas at a time?

It’s quite common to have a second fridge and/or freezer in your home’s garage or basement. If you always have a lot of food that needs to be kept cold, or lots of hungry and thirsty kids and other guests coming over, it definitely comes in handy.

But if you don’t actually have that other icebox filled all the time, take a moment to consider how necessary it is to keep it, and how much money and energy you may be wasting to run it.

This great calculator from Energy Star will show you how much you can save by getting rid of your second fridge (or replacing your main one). It is important to consider that typically, a second refrigerator or freezer in the home is probably an old model that uses almost twice as much energy as a modern one.
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