I pretty much say that every day. ;)

TBH I think you should both donate the fridge to someone who truely needs it. This feels like a slap in the face to truely struggling families.

3DogMom I know that so many people don’t think youtube is work. I get it. It doesn’t seem that way when you don’t see everything that goes into it. When you’ve built a channel and spent years and countless hours, you have a platform and companies compensate you for exposure on it. It’s no secret that youtubers get money and compensation for brand placement in their videos. Personally I have been donating a portion of my ad revenue every month to a different charity. I know Christine donates to charities as well. This is compensation for a job done, pure and simple. We have to count this as income and pay taxes on it. It’s not like everything is free and clear here.

@@Jen-Chapin I get it, but videoing yourself grocery shopping and cooking family meals you'd do anyway is not exactly groundbreaking content. I guess more of the issue i have is pretending to be struggling or frugal when you are middle class and already have a lot of family wealth, and then taking huge freebes like fridges on top of that, when the reason people watch your channel is they are poor and struggling and maybe looking for tips. But all I see is spending and advertizing for things that are out of my reach. And in my head that just doesn't feel right. Its like rubbing it in us poor peoples faces. it hurts. Maybe something to think on in your heart (Christine too).

@@thethrivingmom1745 I was typing & deleting a response, and in the interim, Jen responded. Middle class doesn't mean wealthy at all, and neither of these women come from wealth. They're self-made and they're in their late 30s. I'm in my mid-30s & still a broke graduate student. I actually learn a lot of tips from both women. Some things I can't do yet (like subscription services), others I can keep an eye out for. I'm not envious of others in a different life circumstance than mine. It's inappropriate to scold them for a surprise gift. It's like telling someone who won groceries for a year in a contest that there's starving children. They're not lying. You don't know their full financial situation, but Christine has made it quite clear they DO budget and financially plan EVERYTHING. They built their current financial situation on their own & they struggled. Jen has touched on her self-made background as well. We can promote giving and charity without comparing lower class to middle class. These women have VERY modest KZfaq channels in the scheme of the YT community. If they had millions of subscribers, views, and tons of ads, then I'd understand the upsettedness, but this was not it.

I saw that fridge hack there too! I need to buy some of those chopping mats!

If you have a larger fridge, they make a roll of plastic easyliners thats got texture on one side and I think ibspent less than $5 and I have more than what could fit in my fridge

Great idea. Ty.

@@emilyrenee302 Wow cool

Naomi Morris LoL, don’t wonder what their personal conversations sound like... 😂

Like we shouldnt ask questions about people getting new fridges for free and then pretending to be struggling 😠

@@thethrivingmom1745 , I don't think Christine pretends to struggle. She chooses to live frugally so that they can save money &/or be debt free.

Don't question the blessings of the tortilla fairy Dave.

GK Davies hahaha yes!!

I know she’s said in previous videos that having fruits and veggies prepped (like those cut-up carrots) causes them to gravitate to the healthy stuff first.

When I was a kid there were absolutely no restrictions on food growing up and it was just fine. We could eat any snacks at any time, have however many helpings of dinner, whatever. Even stuff like Halloween candy was unrestricted. The only limit was that we'd have to wait until the next week if something ran out, which didn't happen too often even with 4 of us. I was always baffled if I went to a friend's place and they had to ask to have some chips or something. I thought it was weird and a bit controlling, coming from a household with total freedom. I never snacked myself out of being hungry for dinner and all of us kids maintained a healthy weight at least until we were adults. Kids are typically pretty good at knowing when they are and aren't hungry, and that of course fluctuates as they grow! And if they do end up occasionally getting a lot more of their sustenance from snacks (if, for instance, one kid doesn't really like a given dinner) it's not a huge deal in the long run. In the grand scheme of things, it's probably more important that kids develop a healthy relationship to food that they'll carry with them into adulthood

Yes! Thank you!

I, too, love the side-by-side fridge. Me, bc the doors are narrow and I have a teeny tiny kitchen. Also, her new side-by-side that came as a set with her new house is deep enough for three gallons of milk! It’s a Fridgidaire. Her French Doot fridge is a Kitchen Aid. It has measured fill in door water/ice. That seemed to be a unique feature.

I do like both configurations, now. Hey, it’s a fridge that works! My side-by-side was my only new fridge and I got it for $800 New Year’s Eve sale at Lowe’s 10 + years ago. I still think of it as new. Smh. My son looks at the L or HD and then finds the same at a scratch and dent Sears outlet. How he got the 4K French door one for $2k.

My grandparents had a freezer last nearly 50 years! They only replaced it when they could no longer get the parts they needed for repair.

LulaMae21 yes the freezer in our garage my parents gave me when they divorced. It’s over 40 years old and we’ve never had a problem yet! I admit I do check on it every 2-3 days all summer just in case. 😁

ebgbjo2025 For sure! a couple years ago that’s what the repair man told me when he came for a small issue. He said these days they are made to last 6 years at most. Made me sad!

@@GaryAndHeatherBush Nice! Probably a good idea to check on it as you never know when something will go wonky. Here's hoping it lasts you many more years!

Thanks so much! 😊

So true!

It always comes down to pizza!

I still love my side by side and have no plans to ever buy a French door fridge. My dad has one and complains about the freezer on the bottom all the time. By the way, my side by side is large enough for a pizza box. I made sure of that when I bought it. ☺️

@@sarasorensen2650 🤣

Thank you so much!!