About six years ago, my oven door became  slightly loose.  In  order to shut it tight,  I had to prop a kitchen chair under the handle.   The repairman said that after 25 years, they  no longer had parts to fix the hinge. That’s when I had to make a decision. When are you too old to buy a new stove?

I reasoned that I seldom used the oven, now that my days of hosting holidays meals were in the past.  The burners worked fine, and I mostly used a small toaster oven. My husband was 82 and I was on the backside of 70.  The possibility of one of  us getting sick, and having to sell the house  in the near future,  seemed like a good reason not to invest in a new stove.

In the years that followed my children teased me when I had them over for lasagna and had to prop the oven  door shut .  And then, last year, the knobs on one of my burners got twisted and couldn’t be replaced.  Now I was down to three burners.

My husband started making visits to appliance stores, coming back with pricing and information about a replacement stove.  I looked at a new stove, and it appeared very little changed from the one I currently had.  Seems they don’t make many changes in new appliances the way they do with automobiles.   Anyway, how would I feel if I bought a new stove, and had to go into a nursing home a month later?  What a waste!

Suddenly, this  year, we got a tax refund for the first time in our 30 years of marriage.  What would we do with this unexpected windfall?  A trip to Hawaii came to mind, but unfortunately, our traveling days are over, due to various physical limitations. Having spent 93 days decluttering our house,  we didn’t really want to start accumulating more household goods ..https://livingwellafter80.com/decluttering-diary-day-93/

 

And so, guess what we did today? Bought a replacement stove!

You’re never too old to buy a new stove.