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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/WorkingInAColdMind on 2026-06-23 20:08:06+00:00.

The FU happened last week when we were leaving for a vacation. When I set up our smart plugs for vacation mode, I saw one named “bedroom” that we didn’t need, so I switched it off. No big deal, right, since that’s just some lamp we don’t need to come on. However, and I honestly don’t remember when I did this or why I would have, but I had apparently moved that plug down to the basement and plugged our chest freezer into it. My best guess is I wanted to monitor its power usage. So today, after 6 days being off, we discover a bunch of melted ice cream and defrosted items and we’re throwing out a bunch of stuff. Smart switch my foot. It should have told me I was an idiot if it was so smart!

TL;DR - I put a smart switch on our chest freezer and switched it off before a vacation, defrosting everything while we were gone.