This monring I walked into my kitchen and went huh, its so strange to have a bright white stove where my black stove sat, it certainly catches my eye..  I made my first dish on it this morning, a pot of Red River for a hot breakfast.

So lets see how I did on the costs of replacing my old stove, I checked out the sales on for a new one, and there were alot, I want real burners as I can alot, and the glass topped stoves (or at least the ones manual’s I have looked at) don’t recommend that kind of weight on them as they can crack or break under it. The sale prices ran from $399 to $599, ok in truth not a bad price for a new stove but to that you would need to add Tax, plus gas for pick up etc

Then came looking at a few second hand stores, the average cost for the kind of stove I wanted was about $250, plus tax an gas for pick up, better.. Then I started looking at farm sales, I figure I could get a stove for around a hundred or so if I could find a good sale to get to, only there was a issue, the sales that had a correctly sized stove where all an hour to two hours away, that is a lot of gas for a “if” I get the price I want.. a bit more risky then I want at the moment..

So that brought me to Kijji, there the stoves ranged all over in price from very low to very high depending on what the value placed on the them by the person selling them.. The average prices in general seemed to be 150 to 250, still not bad.. but I was not in a hurry, I really wanted one for a hundred or under, and figured if I just watched for a bit, I could find it..  Had one close buy for 75, but despite being the first to email them after the post went up, they would not hold it till after work for a pick up and sold it before Dh even got off work, have to admit that while they were polite about it, it kinda made me growl a little, but fate has a way of giving a helping hand, a new posting for a stove was up for $30, works well but a little wear and tear..

So I contacted them, the stove has two knicks in the paint but the real issue was the the plastic on a couple of the buttons on the timer for the oven had broken off, the buttons still work but its no longer “pretty” and so it got replaced, the rest works perfectly well..

As a added help it was less then ten min or so in driving time from were DH works, so he drove in, and parked at work for the day and then picked it up afterwards and the older gentleman helped him load it, and even provided bubble wrap for certain parts of it etc.

We got it set up and yup, as they said, everything works, so for less then 5% of a new stove, I have a second hand one with missing buttons.. I will admit that I will see if its possable to get a replacement part on that, and or find a safe way to cover them, but if not, so be it…

So what do you think? Would you have turned down the stove because of the buttons? or would you have taken it? At which price point would you have been happy and bought one at?