--- title: This Woman Resourcefully Used Her Fridge to Dispense Wine description: A woman from Manchester, England proved that she is living her best life when she replaced water with wine in her fridge's dispenser. canonical: https://time.com/4598385/wine-water-dispenser/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-12T21:27:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:25.198Z og:title: Woman Wisely Uses Fridge's Water Dispenser to Serve Wine og:description: From water to wine og:url: https://time.com/4598385/wine-water-dispenser/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Wisely Uses Fridge's Water Dispenser to Serve Wine twitter:description: From water to wine twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Woman Who Got Her Fridge to Dispense Wine Is Dominating Life > Sponsored content. 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Clare, a woman from Manchester, England, has basically figured [the secret of what the youths call “adulting”](http://time.com/4361866/adulting-definition-meaning/) with one brilliant life hack: making her fridge [dispense wine](http://time.com/4431632/rihanna-wine-glasses/) instead of water. According to [_Buzzfeed_](https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemcneal/wine-fridge?bftw&utm%5Fterm=.gwkj92KJ46#.gaGqX9bKvz), after ordering a new fridge with her boyfriend Joe, Clare filled the water dispenser with wine instead of good ol’ H2O, which means that she always would always wine on tap — genius! “We ordered the fridge and Joe said it came with a wine cooler section and I said ‘Or we could put it in the water dispenser,’” she said. “It seemed to make perfect sense.” She even documented this positive life decision on Twitter, where it appears that the majority of the Internet agrees with her — her tweet has since been retweeted over 42,000 times as of Monday. > [](https://twitter.com/iliketweet/status/807952607645929472) Sadly, after finishing the bottle of wine that they had poured into the dispenser, Clare and Joe decided to make the switch back to water in their fridge’s dispenser. 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