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For Americans, one refrigerator is not enough
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Last Updated: Feb 24, 2021, 10:11 AM IST
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Around 35 million U.S. households have two refrigerators, and the Vincents are among the 6 million households that report owning more than two refrigerators, whether full- or dorm-size units, according to the Energy Information Administration, a federal agency that tracks appliance ownership. That number has climbed from 14% of all homes in 1978, when the agency first started surveying Americans, to 30% in 2015. About 27% of today’s urban homes and almost 40% of rural ones have at least two refrigerators.
New York Times
A GE refrigerator that was purchased in the 1980s in the basement of Doris and Anthony Vincent s home in Greensboro, N.C., Feb. 16, 2021. For many Americans, a second fridge and sometimes a third is another member of the family.