The Antique Gas Stove

One of the 'features' of this house, a main selling point, was the antique gas stove in the kitchen

There were four burners that had to be lit with a match.  There was a very small oven that had to be lit with a match.  And there was a broiler section that needed to be lit with a match.

Lighting things with matches, other than candles, was not something I wanted to do on a regular basis.

Plus I couldn't see baking items for Thanksgiving dinner and many Christmas cookies in that tiny oven.

Now granted...there was a double oven built into the cabinet area for the purpose of more intense baking or accommodating numerous dishes that needed baking.  But I still didn't want that antique gas stove.

So I listed it on several buy and sell sites on Facebook.

At first there were so many inquiries...and comments.  People thought it was beautiful, something they always had wanted, it would be perfect for their basements or a renovated kitchen.  But either the dimensions were not quite right or the husband didn't want it or it had the wrong kind of gas hook up with it.

There was a fairly serious inquiry at the beginning of the school year.  But it came from a teacher who had just started the new year and she never followed up on coming to see it.

However....the other day another inquiry came in.

This lady was very interested...to the point that she said she would buy it and wanted to pay for it when she and her husband came to look at it.  She just needed to wait for a few days to pick it up.

What we are doing right now is waiting for them to arrive.  I need to leave in 45 minutes for my WW meeting in Delphi, but Gary has strict instructions to not lower the price and to accept only cash, not a check.

I hope that this is a successful sale.  We really want to get the stove out of our garage.  We have other things that could go into that space.  Plus it really would make a nice appliance in someone's kitchen.

Just not ours!