My refrigerator is almost 13 years old but it was top of the line in a Kenmore when we bought it for the new house. If other refrigerators & families are like mine, there would be no way to keep the temperature regulated all the time.
I must say that I am fortunate in one manner. My fridge does have the ice dispenser (crushed & cubed), filtered water dispenser, and light on the outside of the door and there is a drain under it but not all refrigerators have this function. If this one ever goes kaput, I'm opting for one with the drawer freezer on the bottom, the slide and glide top refrigerator, outside ice (cubed/crushed), filtered water, light, and the opening to let you open the smaller door to take things out without having to open the large door so the inside stays cold and even temperature all the time or at least more/most of the time.
I have a crisper for veggies, a deli section w/ it's own temperature, and at the bottom there is a drawer for meats (yuck) and it's own thermometer too so they can stay partially frozen until ready to cook just as the crisper to the vegetable bin keeps the veggies fresh and the deli's thermometer keeps deli foods at the right temp.
A wine cooler, mini dorm fridge, or even the ones from thinkgeek.com will keep an even temperature as long as the power doesn't go out and even if it does if you have a battery backup or a generator (we have four generators; two run my house for the fridge and separate freezer as well as other household items while the other two keep my MIL's fridge and separate freezer and household items running)
BTW, if you ever get a side-by-side door refrigerator, always always make sure you can open the doors completely because those bins have to come out to be completely cleaned and you don't want to have to lug that fridge out away from the wall to open the doors all the way every time you clean the bins. That's the only downside with my refrigerator. The fact I only have one child left living at home helps too. At least the doors to the fridge aren't revolving every 20 minutes anymore. It's down to once every hour or so these days.
FYI: The reason we have generators is because we live approx 100 (more or less, probably less as the crow flies) miles inland on the east coast so hurricane seasons are something we stay readily prepared for every year. Fran, Floyd, and Dennis (both times) kept us on our toes. During Fran we had to move out of our house because of flooding and I couldn't do a thing b/c I was 7 months pregnant, nearly miscarried several times already from placenta previa, and was on bedrest so the racers who raced with DH & his best friend brought their karting trailers and trucks that were enclosed to our house with their wives and packed everything we had in 8 hours, long before the road flooded. The waters lacked an inch or two getting into the house but under the house and the back porch was flooded. We closed on the new house not long afterward. Thankfully Floyd didn't do much in the way of water here but it did take lots of shingles and two trees down as well as the power. Dennis did the same except for the trees. It did take down my last Bradford Pear tree though. I have Japanese Magnolias growing now plus the pine trees and these tall fir-like trees that edge our side yard between our lot and our neighbor's since we are on the corner in the subdivision.
Believe me when I say there is nothing worse than a non-functioning coffee maker, griddle, and losing everything in your fridge when every power line from the outer banks slam close to Charlotte are down and nobody can tell you when the power will be back on. Generators charge & run the console games for the kids, the coffee maker, the griddle, and with the inverter, it charges my notebook.
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