This is a really dumb, friendly disagreement in our house, but I thought I’d ask what y’all think.
We have an automatic ice maker in our freezer. It has a little arm that sticks out so if it fills up, it stops making ice. Simple enough.
My argument is that we never use all the ice in there anyway, so I never let it fill up. I will physically pull up the little arm to make it stop when the bucket is about half full. If it gets particularly low, I’ll lower the arm so it will make more ice.
His argument is that it is automatic for a reason. Just let it fill up and let the arm do its job.
I guess I could let it go, and it wouldn’t really matter but, I don’t like to let it fill up is that since we don’t use it all. The ice on the bottom will get all gross, there is greater potential for all the cubes to fuse together into a huge ice block and we’d just have to dump it all out.
So we continue to play this cat and mouse game of putting the arm up and down.
What’s your take?
Do you and your spouse have any friendly disagreements?
Andrea Unplugged 
Paul thinks wine glasses should be put away on their rims, because they’re more stable that way. I think they should be put away right side up, because I read a long time ago that storing them on their rims makes the rims rough/chipped. …We should probably just get one of those racks that lets them hang up, like at a bar. Except we have, like, four total wine glasses.
I mostly put the ones in the cabinet away right side up. But I have two champagne glasses that don’t fit in the cabinet and sit out on the counter. I recently started putting them away rim down (on a paper towel if that makes any difference) because on the rare occasion I use them, I don’t want to have to clean out the dusty inside.
we have the same icemaker dispute at our house! i’m on the “eh, just let it be automatic” side because i never think to CHECK our ice level, and occasionally am disappointed to find we don’t have enough for something (like if we have people over and want to make drinks).
re: the wine glasses, we have, uh, a LOT. 1/2 are stored hanging upsidedown on an actual wine rack; 1/2 are stored right side up in a cabinet. .
Fair enough on the not having enough. No one ever comes over so I don’t get worried about that.
I let ours just fill automatically, but you have good arguments for turning it off.
I’m sure we have a zillion friendly disagreements, but I can’t think of any now.
I give you a pass since you’ve got other things to focus on when you’re home. 🙂
We had that kind of ice maker growing up and always just let it go automatically, but periodically one of my parents would have to clean out the giant ice lump that had accumulated in the bottom. So, I see both sides. (Also, there were 7 people in the house growing up, so sometimes we actually DID use all the ice.)
I think your ice-maker-stopping solution is genius. I’ve never thought to look and see if ours does that. The big stale brick of fused ice bothers both my husband and I, so I think we would agree on stopping it at about half full.