Buh-bye
August 17, 2007
“It still really smells in here.”
“Have you considered cleaning the oven?”
“No. Not at all.”
“Or maybe throwing away the hamburgers that are still inside of it?”
“I was thinking we should just throw the hamburgers away with the oven.”
Good riddance.
Posted by Chris @ 9:29 am
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I second that motion
August 17th, 2007 at 9:30 amWow. What a great idea. How would you work that into “getting rid of the stupid pink carpet in my bedroom?” Perhaps laying burnt hamburgers on it?
August 17th, 2007 at 9:38 amThat is the very appliance I want to replace next. I’m waiting for it to die so I can buy a new one. So do share — how did you kill yours?? Does your husband know you did so purposefully in order to procure a shiny new large appliance or was it a subtle and slow poisoning that you confess only to your priest?
I must have a new stove. haha
August 17th, 2007 at 9:48 amThat’s the greatest! What a way to get a new oven!
August 17th, 2007 at 9:50 amYour oven saga has made me think that ovens are useless and evil. I don’t think I’m going to use my oven in my apartment. I need it for more important things, like storing shoes.
August 17th, 2007 at 9:52 amYou know what goes well with week-old charcoal hamburgers? Chunky milk. Hello new refrigerator;)
August 17th, 2007 at 10:08 amWow - that’s an old oven. Have fun shopping for a new one.
August 17th, 2007 at 10:17 amHey, now you don’t have to cook anymore!
August 17th, 2007 at 10:17 amAhh, the new kitchen appliance smell!
Chris, I just built a house, and I liked your “Barley” wall color in the pictures so much it’s one step lighter shade, “Cornsilk,” is my interior house color. I’ve gotten so many compliments on it, and I feel like a dork saying, “Well, you see there’s this blog…”
August 17th, 2007 at 10:24 amI think I saw Alice pulling a mid-week turkey dinner out of just such and oven on The Brady Bunch. Musn’t get too close to the stove wearing all that polyester, Carole!
Um, nice floor too.
August 17th, 2007 at 10:25 amExcellent! I’ll keep this tactic in mind next time I want/need to replace an appliance.
August 17th, 2007 at 10:28 amI went for an embarrassingly long time with the express intention of cleaning my ancient and much loathed oven by the throw-it-out-and-buy-a-new-one method. It worked too, eventually
When it died I refused to call in anyone to look at it, we went shopping instead. Unfortunately the new oven didn’t fit into the old oven’s spot and we had to buy a new cabinet to install it…which took us nearly 3 months to achieve. On the up-side I had a good excuse for buying rather than baking a couple of birthday cakes in that time.
New appliances are fun - enjoy!
August 17th, 2007 at 10:53 amDoes this mean you get a new oven?
August 17th, 2007 at 11:10 amOr that the children will have to forage in the pantry?
That is my kind of cleaning! Go girl!
August 17th, 2007 at 11:31 ami cooked for SIX years on an underpowered stove. it was just too old to operate at full capacity. we used a camp stove a lot, until we finally got around to breaking away all of the tile that surrounded the darn thing so we could pull it out. and 3 or 4 years later, we still haven’t finished all of the tile that should go back around it (but at least the counter does have its tile). *sigh*
August 17th, 2007 at 11:34 amHmm. Your husband is much shorter than I thought he was.
August 17th, 2007 at 11:54 amI bought a new car once ’cause I needed new tires. Same-same.
August 17th, 2007 at 12:25 pmnow you have an excuse not to cook
August 17th, 2007 at 12:27 pmCongratulations! I had to put my house on the market in order to get my new cooktop and oven. And I still managed to mess them up before we moved. Now we’re in a house with a 24-year-old cooking range and I told my husband, “Let’s just keep it until we kill it. It’s only a matter of time.”
August 17th, 2007 at 12:52 pmI didn’t realize that’s all you had to do to get a new oven. I shall begin the oven fires now.
August 17th, 2007 at 3:26 pmChris, I hope you don’t mind me posting this, and if you do, I won’t be offended if you remove this post. But I was inspired by this post do do an answering one of my own, here http://kandlenut.blogspot.com/2007/08/i-know-how-to-do-that.html . For anyone that wants to know how to get a new stove.
August 17th, 2007 at 3:47 pmOH MY GOD!! Not only did the oven burn your hamburgers and catch on fire, but it ATE your husband.
I have neighbors that were making french fries and got a whole new kitchen. Or if you would like a whole new house, just have a major hurricane hit. We have a lot of that going on around here, too.
August 17th, 2007 at 4:30 pmI am having a new oven delivered in two weeks and will be doing that very same thing to my old oven. I am oh so very very excited! I can’t wait to see pictures of yours!!…please tell me there will be pictures?!
August 17th, 2007 at 8:27 pmOh that is one good husband. When are you getting a new oven?
August 17th, 2007 at 9:12 pmHi, I stumbled upon your blog via someone else’s *funny how that works*. I just wanted you to know that this post made me smile and laugh - enough for my husband to ask what was so funny. He wouldn’t have appreciated the humor - I kept it my little secret. Thanks for creating my highlight of the day.
August 17th, 2007 at 9:27 pmCan you come over here and help me with my oven? I now have a sign over it “DARE TO COOK”. My husband still doesn’t get it.
August 17th, 2007 at 10:19 pmI absolutely LOVE the painting to the right of the oven in the photo. I love the colors.
August 17th, 2007 at 10:21 pmYou cook hamburgers in the oven? Not in a frying pan? For some reason that baffles me. Oh, and, yay, new oven!
August 17th, 2007 at 10:23 pmWhen you have to cook about 15 patties at once, they won’t fit in a frying pan!
Reminds me of how you got rid of the sofa . . what unwanted item will go next (besides an unruly child)?
August 18th, 2007 at 7:34 amLOL Did you know TW’s ex husband bought a new refrigerator right after they split up… the children said they had to do this because TW left a coke in the freezer and it exploded in there and could not be cleaned. Ha.
August 18th, 2007 at 10:46 amYah! New oven!
August 18th, 2007 at 11:25 amI love the decor of that kitchen
(P.S. it’s 4:40 pm and I left at 3:15 and have been home for about half an hour. Awesome)
August 18th, 2007 at 4:45 pmI knew a woman once who “accidentally” let her 2 year old play with a bottle of hair dye and he spilled it all over the carpet. In every room. Woops! Her insurance got to replace all the carpet in the whole house. Funny how it was ugly old carpet that needed replacing.
I’m not suggesting anything but would you like a whole new house? Next time, don’t put that fire out quite so fast. A new oven is good too though.
August 18th, 2007 at 5:23 pmThrowing your husband out with the old oven seems a bit extreme. Perhaps you should try to forgive him for the cleaning comment. You know what they say about the baby and the bath water after all.
August 19th, 2007 at 6:46 pmI love new ovens! mostly without the burgers in them though..
August 19th, 2007 at 9:33 pmYippee!!!!!! Gonna use my new oven for the 1st time tonight!
August 20th, 2007 at 8:50 pm