Cool Site!

Tuesday night I had a slight catastrophe in the kitchen. I had just filled my water jug with ice and I let the freezer door swing closed. It didn't slam just closed like normal. And then the most horrible thud along with the cracking and crashing of glass. Fear seized me. What would await my eyes when I turned around?

When I turned around I saw what I feared. Something had fallen on the stove top. Several years ago we had to buy a new stove and I finally got my dream of a flat surface stove top. (I LOVE it! My stove actually gets cleaned!) So when I laid eyes on a broken candy jar on the top of my precious stove, my stomach ended up in my throat. Thankfully, the only thing that broke was the jar... in a million pieces!

But as I was cleaning up the candy pieces and bits of broken glass, I found that I stove didn't escape completely unscathed. One of the control knobs had broken beyond repair. This upset me pretty good because as I mentioned... I love my stove! It's the newest appliance that I have and I want to keep it the shining star of my kitchen. So I decided to immediately find a replacement knob on the internet.

In my searching, I found this really neat website: ManageMyHome.com. There are all sorts of tips, ideas, and support to find there as well as a link to replacement parts. (It's a Sears website so it took me to their parts site, but I ended up not buying from them.) The really cool thing I found was you can set up an account and keep track of everything for your home on this site including PDFs of manuals for the appliances you have in your home! I am a manual reader and keeper, but it just so happens that my stove was delivered without one so this is perfect.

So if you are a home-owner, check it out and see what wonderful things you can do for your home. Starting with recycling all your appliance manuals, decluttering your home, and storing them in cyber-space.

And I did find a replacement knob... on RepairClinic.com. I chose them because they allowed returns on all of their products. The Sears site did not. The base price was slightly more, but I found an online coupon code for the site that gave me a 10% discount! The killer was the shipping! That's highway robbery! It doubled the price of my item.

The important thing is my stove will be back to it's former glory soon.