The optrex is in the fridge because I find it more soothing cold, plus it stays fresher longer that way. The nurofen is actually for the chickens and we get through that little of it (and low dose aspirin) that I store it in the fridge. Others include my emergency steroid injection kit, hubby's thyroxine meds, my liquid morphine and anything that says store cool or below 25°C. Certainly much more is kept in the fridge in Australia than the UK because of summertime temperatures reaching 44°C (that's the maximum I've recorded at my home, but there are areas where it is routinely hotter than that). Plus in the winter it can drop to -15°C and it keeps the liquid meds from freezing in an unheated uninsulated house!
My old fridge had a ventilated salad drawer that stopped veg from sweating. It worked really well. I don't like this new one because I'm often finding water at the bottom of the salad drawer which the veg end up sitting in. I know the rest of the world would put kitchen paper down and through it out when wet, but that's not me and that's not environmentally friendly either, so I use tea towels and just wash them. My old salad drawer kept veg much fresher for much longer. I've moved the ethylene absorbers over from the old drawer to the new one to keep things fresher but in still struggling to get the veg fresh for longer. The old one I could put stuff in there and come back to it 2 weeks later and it would still look like a bought it yesterday. This new one is better with the tea towels in the bottom but you'll still see some aging on the veg. Without the tea towels the veg would have gone bad in that same time frame. I've actually started putting the fresh veg in the other fridge again and only keeping the munching/snack stuff in the kitchen fridge.
I must take some measurements and see if I can move the salad drawers and bottom shelf over. I don't like having the veg in the garage because it gets forgotten.
So the bottom shelf has:
