Michael McIntyre said something SO relatable in one of his comedy sketches, it's like he was reading my mind. It went something like this:-
Going away on holiday can be stressful. One of the thoughts that plague you is "will this home still be here when we get back?" You feel you have to unplug everything, even though you always go out to work every day with appliances plugged in, but when going away for a few days you don't know why but you think your appliances will start to combust. So before you leave you go around and make sure everything is unplugged. Not just switched off at the wall but actually unplugged, just to be really safe. So you unplug everything in your home. Everything - except the fridge. We trust the fridge. It practically tells us that it will keep our food safe and that it wouldn't do what other appliances are known to randomly do. The biggest electrical appliance in our homes is the fridge, yet the most trustworthy.
Ever since I was a small child I have always worried about electrical items bursting into flames, but have always accepted the fridge to be continuously plugged in. And now this comedian guy has really said what I've always been thinking. Lol