This morning when I came out to start breakfast, I put my porridge in the micro wave. There was a loud grinding noise! I was standing beside the micro wave so turned it off quickly. Ah ha! It wasn't the gravy! So I thought I'd try the micro wave again. It stopped at 18 secs. I tried it again. 18 secs. So first thing in the morning I find that my micro wave has died. It didn't owe me anything as I had it for 14 years.
We had an old micro wave downstairs that we had been trying to sell on garage sales. So after breakfast my wife cleaned up the old micro wave. We took the fried micro wave off the shelf and cleaned out a pretty dusty shelf.
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| You see what I mean by a microwave from another age |
I was nominated to bring up the old clunker of a micro wave. If you are old enough you can remember the microwaves from the 90's were big and heavy. So up the microwave comes to the top step when I tripped and lost my balance and bashed into the door.. No great harm done except for scratch on the door.
So a few more minutes and we wrestled the old clunker onto the shelf. We review how to use it and away we go! We're in business!
Now if I hadn't got up this morning I wouldn't have discovered a broken microwave and ruined half my day setting up my old microwave.
Anybody else have those kind of days?
Oooh yesss! Not very often fortunately but when I do they are usually real corkers.
ReplyDeleteHowever , this was only a micro wave so it shouldn't have been that bad.
DeleteLove the old micro! :)
ReplyDeleteTo bad some days don't have a rewind button. Or fast forward!
Could I erase day?
DeleteWe had one of those old clunkers of a microwave back in 1980 when our son was born. It lasted many years and did duty in two of our homes before it died. I was never so glad to get that big old thing out of my kitchen. :)
ReplyDeleteThe old ones were much better. Today they are throw away
DeleteI wonder how long the old microwave will last? The last one I bought at Wally World was $69 everything is disposable theses days:(
ReplyDeleteThe old one turned out to be not working. It's been sitting there for 14 years and dragged to a few garage sales so I guess it had one too many bumps.
DeleteAll the time Red, all the time.
ReplyDeleteHey , for you I thought everything was a bowl of cherries!
DeleteThat looks very similar to my very first microwave :)
ReplyDeleteAll brands sort of follow the leader. Thanks for following my blog.
DeleteYes, I have days like this quite often. Glad you had the old one, but microwaves these days are so cheap you might want to just replace the broken one... :-)
ReplyDeleteNew micro waves these days are throw away. We did ask for a quote ti fix this one...200 bucks! That's what we paid for it.
Deleteha ha. yes, unfortunately. and YES, those older microwaves are heavy as 2 bags of feed! :) i have an old one that is still going (thank goodness!) glad you had one on reserve!
ReplyDeleteThe one in reserve doesn't work as well as we thought so it's going to microwave heaven with the other one.
DeleteHa - that's funny. I remember my first microwave. It was big, and pretty heavy. I can't even remember how many years ago that was.
ReplyDeleteWe had a little discussion of when we got our first micro wave and how many we have had.
DeleteThe newer ones are so compact. Hope this lasts until sale season.
ReplyDeleteWe found that this one is next to kaput so it's going to the dump with the other one.
DeleteI remember our first microwave was heavy and had more chrome on it than an Edsel. We had to reinforce our kitchen counter because it was bowing beneath all that weight.
ReplyDeleteOh, oh! I'll bet that was a hefty bill!
DeleteWell, at least you had a spare microwave lying around. If ours goes kaput!, we have to go get another. I remember those microwaves; they sure are heavy!
ReplyDeleteWe made a big mistake. the old one really didn't work. It took ten tries to heat my cup of coffee.
DeleteI'm afraid that I have had many a day like yours. I am so glad that you did not hurt yourself in the process. Take care, Red!
ReplyDeleteWell, have a bad day and then get over it. I forget about things and go on.
DeleteMy motto: nothing is ever simple. One thing always leads to another.
ReplyDeleteWe have an old microwave that just won't quit. It's almost 30 years old, a big old clunker that just keeps going and going and going. I kinda wish it would die.
Wow! Thirty years! That's a real record. You must be doing something right.
DeleteYes, Red, We have all had these days. When a particular chore starts out bad, well, you know what comes next eh. ... glad you didn't get hurt. Good that you kept the old microwave - I had one of those big ole clunkers and it went to the electric graveyard a few years ago - microwaves are so light and much less expensive now, eh.
ReplyDeleteWell, it turned out that the old clunker didn't really work. It took ten tries to heat my coffee so the clunker is gone.
DeleteOh dear! At least you had a spare!
ReplyDeleteThank you. Love love, Andrew. Bye.
It turned out that the spare didn't work either.
DeleteTHAT is quite the relic!!! Keep it another decade and you'll have a valuable antique. ;)
ReplyDelete"If you are old enough you can remember the microwaves from the 90's were big and heavy."
ReplyDeleteMy microwave from the '90s just died a few months ago, but I don't recall it being all that heavier than the one with which I replaced it, which was also a Sharp. This makes me wonder if your old microwave just might be even older than you remember.
Oh, gosh! We bought a brand new one a year ago. I love it. Funnily enough, my mother-in-law bought us one in 1986 for a wedding present. My first husband used to wreck cookies in it!
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