A cool stove and why I shall not have one

Posted by E-George on November 2, 2007

Five minutes ago, I didn’t know this existed. Now, I. Have. To. Have. One.

Tell me this isn’t the coolest thing you’ve EVER seen. It’s the doors. I’m totally fixated on the number of little doors and cooking cubbies they hide. And, for someone like me (i.e., a pretend proficient) this fits the bill of kitchen bling like nothing else. For it to work, though, you’d have to design the kitchen around the stove, which I’m totally willing to do.

This, naturally, leads to today’s soapbox: Impulse spending.

Lucky for Matthew – I mean me, this stove is sold. Even if it wasn’t, we certainly don’t have multi thousands of dollars laying around for a piece of kitchen kitsch. But, perhaps if we were credit card holders with canonical attitudes about debt, something like this would move from the That’ll-Be-The-Day-Mr.-Floogleman heading to the Sure-Whatever-You-Want heading. (A note of caution: The Sure-Whatever-You-Want heading doesn’t exist in our house. Those are the whispered words of lower demons, and ever since we exorcised all credit cards, the lower demons left with them. We’re left with the subheading of What-Do-You-Need-That-For and What-We-Have-Still-Works.) But, as self-aggrandizing and character-bloating as it may sound, sometimes feeling the pine for an object whose possession by me is as likely as finding gold bricks stacked in the pantry where the sugar-free Jell-O used to be is cathartic in its own way. It reminds me why we are exercising the financial aspects of our marriage so heavily with monthly Financial Summits, planning, and goal-setting. It reminds me why are both practically killing ourselves with work and school. It reminds me that there is a larger goal afoot, besides owning bright, big, shiny, pretty things. Those things may come in the future, but not at the cost of our future.

How much more delicious would food be cooked on a stove like that if it were bought and put in a remodeled kitchen that was paid for without incurring debt? Lots, I’m thinking.

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