#NationalCleanOutYourRefrigeratorDay

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National Clean Out Your Fridge Day

Excuse the pun, but the timing has never been riper to celebrate National Clean Out Your Fridge Day on November 15! This is the perfect opportunity to tackle that science experiment that’s been growing way in the back, there. Of course, ideally, we’d all clean out our fridges far more often than once a year, but let’s be real: Making it an annual occasion provides everyone with the reassurance that at least the horrendous situation with your roommate’s long-forgotten “homemade kombucha” will be rectified eventually, and marking it as a day on the national calendar gives you plenty of scope for getting passive aggressive in the preceding weeks.

History of National Clean Out Your Fridge Day

New technology means new problems. Ever since the first household refrigerator hit the market, consumers then became burdened with a new thing to deal with – cleaning it.

From 1911 to 1922, the technological advances of home refrigerators and refrigeration technologies increased at the rate of speed rivaled only by smartphones. It wasn’t until 1927 when GE produced the “Monitor Top,” a reference to the ironclad Civil War-era ship, the USS Monitor. This model alone sold over one million units.

It wasn’t until post-war America that separate freeze box units were created and used in addition to the typical refrigerator. And then, in the 1970s and 80s, further developments helped created a the combo model we usually see today.

Regardless of what kind of refrigerator they had over the years, everyone had the task of needing to clean it out. Whether its the moldy oranges, the brown bananas, or that milk you forgot about, cleaning a refrigerator is something that American’s over the past century can relate to.

There’s no clear information about how the Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day came about. The general consensus is that this day was started by the Whirlpool Corporation, and later became popular throughout the country.

It is believed that the company intended for the day to be celebrated on the third Wednesday of every month, but the day took a life of its own. Later Whirlpool celebrated a Clean Out Your Refrigerator Week, but the date had gotten stuck.

Cleaning out the refrigerator is a big task, and it’s only natural that people would push the chore aside. Having one day to do a big clean of the refrigerator is useful because it makes everyday cleaning easier.

Refrigerators are essential in the modern American household but are frequently ignored. They store all our food, and that’s why it is essential that they are cleaned regularly. If food is left to go bad in a refrigerator, the germs can spread and affect all the food stored in them.

A refrigerator that is too full also won’t work as efficiently and will use more electricity. Regularly throwing out food that has started to go bad or you’re not planning to eat goes a long way. Spills need to be cleaned up as they happen, and it’s a great time to check what you’ve stored away in the freezer section.

A cleaning session is a great opportunity to check how well your refrigerator is functioning and if it needs any servicing. With Clean Your Refrigerator Day right before the holidays, it’s the perfect opportunity to make sure that everything is ready before Thanksgiving!

National Clean Out Your Fridge Day timeline

1755 Artificial Refrigeration Begins

Scottish professor William Cullen used a pump to create a partial vacuum in the world’s first refrigeration machine

1854 First Ice-Making Machine

And it only took about a hundred more years for the phrase “on the rocks” to be ascribed to Scotch by bar staff

1911 First Household Refrigerator

Produced by General Electric, the design was based on one by a French Cistercian monk and physics teacher, Marcel Audiffren, and primarily designed to help GE sell electricity

1923 First Frigidaire

Founded by the folks who brought you General Motors, the brand became so popular that many Americans called any refrigerator by the name of the company

1940 First Freezer

The arrival of freezers large enough to make more than ice cubes revolutionized the frozen food industry

1995 The Idea is Born

The idea begins, possibly originating from the Whirlpool Corporation.

2000 The Day Starts to Appear Online

November 15 is to be labeled as Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day, on e-cards and blogs.

2004 Whirlpool Partners with Glad Products

This union is to set up 4 to 10 April as Clean Your Refrigerator Week, but it doesn’t catch on.

2005 Chef Emeril Writes About the Day

This is the first time that Clean Your Refrigerator Day is acknowledged by the food industry.

National Clean Out Your Fridge Day FAQs

How often should you clean your refrigerator out?

A refrigerator needs a deep clean every three to four months. But if you can’t you should definitely try to clean it out once a year on Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day. Should I turn off the refrigerator when cleaning?

You should definitely unplug your refrigerator before cleaning it out for your own safety. What’s the best way to clean out your refrigerator?

Clear out everything in your fridge, and wipe down everything, including the doors and drawers with hot soapy water.

National Clean Out Your Fridge Day Activities

Give far too much heavy-handed and serious notice

Help a friend or family member

Actually clean out the fridge

Nobody likes to check for their precious turkey and Swiss cheese sandwich at lunch time and find it’s been chucked out with the furry pasta that was last touched last month. The trick to this part of celebrating National Clean Out Your Fridge Day is to give a series of increasingly escalating pieces of overwrought and deadly serious-sounding notice. You might print out a picture of a nuclear mushroom cloud and fix it to the fridge, writing, “days to National Clean Out Your Fridge Day,” and count it down on a daily basis. Send an office-wide email, cc’ing your boss. Or if it’s your roomies, send a series of group texts over the days before you do it.

Cleaning out a refrigerator can be hard work, so go on and lend a helping hand.

The chances are, if you’ve made a big enough deal out of it, that you might even have roped in some help for cleaning out the fridge by the time the big day rolls around. Apparently cleaning your fridge requires things like “warm, soapy water” and “a sponge,” and unplugging it if you’re planning to have the door open for a while, so you don’t waste energy. But hopefully one of your friends or coworkers will be better with the details, after all, you’ve spent so much energy on the promotion. It’s only right to share the work.

5 Cool Facts About Refrigerators That You Probably Didn’t Know

Refrigerators use less energy when they’re used

The U.S. uses a lot of refrigerators

Colorful refrigerators are fairly new

They took a while to become popular

It’s a major power sucker

It is believed that not filling and overfilling refrigerators make them use up more electricity.

Over 8 million refrigerators are sold in the country every year.

Until the 1950s, the majority of refrigerators were white.

Only 8% of households had refrigerators in the 1930s when they were first introduced.

About 10% of the total power usage in a household is because of the refrigerator.

Why We Love National Clean Out Your Fridge Day

More of us than ever are sharing living spaces

Food safety is important

You didn’t run out of that after all

The number of adults sharing a household with a roommate has surged as rents have risen more quickly than incomes across America over recent years—25% of adults now share with a roommate. The fridge is a major source of roommate tension, and cleaning it out is great for your roommate relationships. It also is good for your health—by diffusing tension, it lowers stress.

A clean refrigerator is the best way to make sure no food ends up contaminated by the other.

When your fridge is cluttered, it's easy to forget you have a long-lasting sauce tucked away in the back there behind the stuff nobody wants to touch. So before you buy that second bottle of sriracha, check your own fridge! You'll save money, time, and get what basically amounts to free condiments. What's not to love about free condiments?

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November 15, Day 319/320

Day 319 2015

Playing with light through water

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Day 320 2016

A cool find

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Day 319 2017

What a pretty leaf...

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Day 319 2018

In pieces

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Day 319 2019

Just a peek

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Day 320 2020

Klaus was such a good snuggle bug 🧡

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Day 319 2021

Donkey (& Belle) helping me to get into my anxiety, what it means for me right now, and how I can build up my tolerance!

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I swear I tried to photograph a sneaky pelican 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Day 319 2023

Sunset, new moon, and the waves 💙 I bet you would've loved the beach

*note Leo wondering what the heck I'm looking at*

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I spotted the moon tonight 😄

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November 15

It’s National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day? I thought that was only once a decade.

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Dear Avi Steinbach: Your frozen butternut squash ravioli has been sitting in the refrigerator since Fall ‘16. It’s time. #NationalCleanOutYourRefrigeratorDay

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CLEAN OUT YOUR REFRIGERATOR DAY

NOVEMBER 15TH, IS CLEAN OUT YOUR REFRIGERATOR DAY. TO PREPARE FOR THIS CLEANING HOLIDAY YOU WILL NEED TO GATHER SOME SOAP, A BUCKET OF HOT WATER, A SPONGE, SOME DISINFECTANT, A DRY CLOTH AND A GARBAGE BAG. NOW YOU ARE READY TO CLEAN OUT YOUR REFRIGERATOR. WITH THANKSGIVING JUST AROUND THE CORNER, NOW IS THE IDEAL TIME TO CLEAN OUT YOUR REFRIGERATOR AND MAKE SOME ROOM FOR THE INFLUX OF LEFTOVERS. SO EMPTY EACH SHELF, GET RID OF ANYTHING EXPIRED OR MOLDY, WIPE DOWN THE ENTIRE INSIDE OF THE REFRIGERATOR, WASH ALL THE DRAWERS, RESTOCK THE FRIDGE AND ENJOY YOUR CLEAN REFRIGERATOR. EVERYTHING IS COOL WHEN WE CLEAN AND REORGANIZE OUR REFRIGERATORS. CLEAN OUT YOUR REFRIGERATOR DAY WAS FOUNDED BY WHIRLPOOL HOME APPLIANCES IN 1999. IF YOU HAVE NEVER USED THEM, OUR COOLNECKWEAR IT WILL HELP KEEP EVERYONE COOL & COMFORTABLE

THIS IS A COOLNECKWEAR  THAT CAN BE USED DAILY OR IN SEASONAL CONDITIONS TO BE USED WITH YOUR EVENTS, FUNDRAISERS, UNIFORMS OR WITH YOUR EMPLOYEE STORE OR EVEN USED AS A RETAIL ITEM

WITH SUMMER AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE ITS USED TO  HELP PREVENT HEAT ILLNESS IN THE WORK PLACE AS A SAFETY ITEM TO HELP KEEP A SOMEONE COOL AND ALERT

A PERSONAL  RE USABLE  COOLNECKWEAR DON'T SHOW UP EMPTY HANDED WE HAVE COOL SAFETY PASS OUT ITEM THAT  YOU CAN EVEN CO-OP AS A PROMOTIONAL ITEM

WITH THE COOLNECKWEAR YOU FOUND THE HELPFUL SAFETY ITEM FOR WORKER SAFETY OR ATHLETES IN THE HEAT. YOU HAVE AN ITEM THAT CAN HELP KEEP THE EMPLOYEES ALERT AND COOL WITH THE HEATED WORKING CONDITIONS. THIS IS REUSABLE AND CAN BE USED IN ANY ENVIRONMENT

AFTER A COUPLE OF DAYS THE COOLNECKWEAR WILL EVAPORATE IN SEVERAL USES OR DAYS OF USING THE COOLNECKWEAR. A PERSONAL, REUSABLE COOLING DEVICE THAT WORKS BY RELEASING A SLIGHT AMOUNT OF MOISTURE ONTO YOUR SKIN. COOLING HAPPENS AS THE EVAPORATIVE PROCESS CONTINUES.

YOU ROTATE THE COOLNECKWEAR AROUND YOUR NECK OR FOREHEAD EVERY FIVE TO TEN MINUTES KEEPING YOU COOL. YOU CAN RECHARGE BACK TO JUST ABOVE FREEZING WITH ICE OR REFRIGERATION IN AS FAST AS 10 MINUTES DEPENDING ON HOW COLD YOU WANT TO GET THE COOLNECKWEAR.

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