Hmm, that sounds like slightly less of a pain in the ass than the way I went about it. Oh well, I'm just glad it's fixed. I think all of that moving around confused the elders though... they suddenly want to see their adult son graduate from high school.

Alright, I've managed to transfer this gypsy curse onto a townie. Thanks Mim, that problem was annoying as hell.

In case anyone else has this problem, here is what I did: I asked a hated townie to move in, then moved my family onto a different lot. I then moved the townie out with the stinky fridge and moved her back into her old house. She was now the owner of the cursed fridge. Finally, I moved my family back into their house and replaced the fridge. Oddly, the stink cloud is still there- but the option to clean out the nonexistant bad food is gone, and thus the crash no longer occurs. It's the special fridge from the Culinary career, so I guess no food will actually go bad in there and I won't have to find out if the remove bad food interaction will still crash the game with this family. I wonder what the fuck caused this problem, anyway.

I have tried hiring a maid, and she went straight for the fridge and made the game crash. I haven't tried visiting with another sim, but I'd venture a guess that the game would still crash because of the cursed fridge no matter who was trying to clean it out. This evening I will try to transfer the curse to a townie as suggested, though I kind of hate to because I just got done settling my family into the new house.

My One Fambly seems to be cursed. For several sim weeks, their fridge has been stinky and uncleanable. Every time a sim goes to clean out the bad food, the game crashes. I've been trying to solve this problem myself for a while. Things I've tried:

-Replacing the fridge (of course)
-Deleting everything from the fridge
-Moving to a new lot
-Deleting everything from the fridge, selling the fridge, then moving to a new lot and buying a new fridge. As soon as I buy the new fridge, the dreaded stink cloud is there.

This only happens with one family, fridges in other households seem fine. The stink cloud doesn't really bother me, but my family has become rather large and it's annoying to have to keep them all constantly busy so they don't autonomously clean out the fridge and crash the game. The only CC I have installed is the Awesomemod, and the problem was around before I downloaded it. I've looked around at a few different message boards and haven't seen anyone else complaining about this problem. Any suggestions?