New-to-us oven.

K follows the Tacoma area Habitat For Humanity Re-Stores. It's sort of a bummer because they post a lot of contemporary furniture that we'd love if only we didn't live three hours away. A few weeks ago, however, they posted a GE wall oven that looked like our GE wall oven. Except it was much newer, much cleaner, and had convection. Also, the buttons hadn't peeled off the control panel like many of them had on ours. All for $150.

Scott offered to pick it up for us. Over the New Year's weekend, he and her family stayed at our house and brought the oven. In about an hour we had a new-to-us oven.

It basically looks brand new. When we looked online for the installation guide and manual, we discovered it cost two grand. We'd love a smart oven, but for now, having a new oven at less than a tenth of the cost was too good to pass up. We're grateful for Scott picking it up and dragging it over the mountains for us. We'll try not to bug him too much about other furniture K finds...

Since we were essentially hot-swapping one GE oven for another, all we really had to do was slide out the old oven and connect the wiring. Then slide in the new one.

We posted the old one on our local Buy Nothing group to see if anyone can use it before taking it to the steel recycling center across the river. It works but is definitely looking a little worse for wear.

Particularly that control panel. Some of the buttons were already missing when we moved in before Sefton helped himself and peeled off a few more. All the reviews about this oven definitely hone in on that poor design of the panel.

We've already used the new oven and it works awesome. The control panel, even without the potential of peeling apart, feels much nicer. More like the oven we installed a couple of years before selling our old house. Now we can wait a little longer before plunking down a bunch of money for a smart oven and K gets to enjoy her much-loved convection.