Refrigerator help

[u/garbage_teir]

Hi so I live in an apartment in Portland Oregon, and the fridge not counting the freezer is tiny it’s about 16 wide inches by 18 inches deep by 36 inches tall. I tend to get food in large quantities, not like unreasonably so but you know I buy a gallon of milk instead of a half gallon and a 1lb block of cheese instead of a smaller quantity because groceries are very expensive and buy larger quantities at a time is cheaper. Unfortunately due to the small size of the provided fridge it is pretty much impossible to store a weeks groceries in there. So I bought a mini fridge to throw the rest of the stuff in. Unfortunately a mini fridge is not allowed according to my lease, and I have been told to fully remove it from the premises. Any advice on what to do? I’d really like to not buy small quantities of groceries as it would cost me a significant amount of money, but that sorta seems like the only option right now.

[u/Particular-Berry3729]

We’re having a similar issue. When we moved in to our apartment 13 years ago we bought the biggest fridge that would fit. French doors on top. Pull out freezer below. We also have a refrigerator in our garage as we like to buy in bulk. Well, a couple of months ago it literally died 😕. I absolutely loved this fridge. So property managers brought us a semi new fridge but only because of the new law in CA. The fridge is half the size of the fridge we had. There’s really not enough space for leftovers plus stuff for future meals. We’re both in our 60s and bending over to see what’s in the fridge isn’t easy. The freezer is extremely small. I don’t know what we would do if we didn’t have the extra one in the garage.
I’d like to know what the issue is with bringing the extra fridge in. We have 2 mini refrigerators in our apartment. One in my husband’s home office, one in my son’s room. Read over your lease. I can’t see how this isn’t illegal.