My 5-year-old microwave died shortly before Thanksgiving last year and my budget didn't allow for replacing it right away even though we had company coming for Thanksgiving. I mentally made a note to replace it after the first of the year; however in January, I thought I would wait for a good sale.
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I'm glad that you're thinking that way...me too!
This website was for at the start "thrifty" ways and IMHO is getting 2 b too much. Oh well!
Have heard plenty about the 'health' risk to eradicated food, what the food is heated on, etc.
You are right... we can and have lived without a microwave before.
Microwaves are cheap. I wouldn't heat the whole oven up just to heat something.
From Frugal GG Vi....You can get a pretty good Microwave on sale ,We did ( at Home Depot ) for our granddaughter for Christmas 3 years ago for $29.99 and it still works. And it is cheaper/faster to warm up a cup of coffee in the microwave than turn on a burner.
We have gotten Microwaves 2nd hand that are quite adequate - & no, we don't use them all the time - but it can come in handy -
But add in the cost of the electricity!
It costs me less to cook a meal using a microwave than it does to run a hob or an oven.
The only way it works out cheaper is if I have to cook for more than three people or if I cook enough food for the whole weekend.
Well I could never be w/o the convenience of my microwave. There are only a few meals I make in it but for heating water, reheating, making popcorn, etc it is just too useful. You can find used microwaves at thrift shops and/or garage sales as many people get rid of perfectly good ones when they remodel and such. I myself got rid of two working full size microwaves because I wanted white instead of black and wanted the automatic turntable! My new one, full sized GE from Home Depot was only $100 and I used birthday money to buy it.
I couldn't stand not having a microwave for all the reasons mentioned here. The electricity you use from using the oven & stove will cost way more than a microwave. It would pay for itself in no time. I work for an appliance chain & you can get a decent one for 50. now.
You're right! I have a microwave, but I use it only to heat up a cup of cold coffee, and pop corn. I also use it (rarely) to heat up foods that are left over.
For a couple of years now I've been trying to get my mom to buy a microwave. She still refuses. It takes up counter space (lots of it) can mess with old houses wiring blowing a circut, and for some reason she still thinks they cause cancer. :) It is a luxary item. Yes popcorn is nice, but popcorn on the stove is so much more nastalgetic. and your right you've got everything you need. My mom has been living about 5 years now with her new propane stove, before she cooked on a woodstove.
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