1 post tagged “2006 goal”

What's one thing that you hope to do or accomplish before the end of this year?

A New Stove

I want to get a new stove. Our stove has the irritating habit of erroring out, showing "--F1--" on its display and beeping irritatingly until you hit the cancel button. Sometimes, we have to resort the throwing the breaker to get it to stop, we cancel...it F1s...we cancel...it F1s...on and on. GE has been out to replace the module three times - all to no avail. We've given up. It's planned obsolescence. And very frustrating. My aunt had the same stove for 45 years. This one is a wreck after 12 years.

It doesn't sound like much for a year-end project, but there is a domino effect with the other appliances in the kitchen. Meaning, if we are going to upgrade the stove, then what about the dishwasher, which we've talked about replacing. And, if we are going to replace the stove and dishwasher, we might as well go the whole nine years and replace the fridge, too. This complicates the decision-making exponentially.

Drake and I are awful consumers because neither of us enjoys shopping and we give up easily. A few months ago, we took a field trip to the appliance store. Talk about the paradox of choice. We were paralyzed. We came home empty-handed and have been hitting the Cancel button ever since.

But, I really do want a new stove. We just need to go back to the appliance store and give it another try.