[jyl]

Well, crap. The oven door of my range is locked into a self cleaning mode. The repairman says it will cost $400 to fix (sensor bad), plus $200 to fix the barely readable LCD display (circuit board), and the non working self igniters are NLA. This is a Frigidaire Gallery Professional, about 15 years old. So I have no oven, except for a toaster oven. And Thanksgiving is approaching.

I basically hate this range, and wasn't inclined to spend more than a couple hundred bucks to fix it. I'd told myself that there'd be no new range bought here until we remodeled the kitchen, a project that has never quite happened. So, what to do?

Perhaps I should buy a $100 (very) used range on Craigslist to tide us over until January. But that's $100 down the drain, and a(nother) crap range in my kitchen.

Perhaps I should simply buy the range that we'd want for the remodeled kitchen. But that would be a 36" or wider model, and the existing cabinet gap is for a 30" range.

Perhaps I should rip out the adjoining cabinets and put in that 36" range, since they were always going to go in a remodel - I want just a bare wall there, with pretty subway tiles and elegant shelves of course. But then I have to look at a $5K range surrounded by a half demolished kitchen during the holidays.

Perhaps I should just start the remodel now, plans and schedules and budget be damned. But then Ill have no kitchen for the holidays, and we have about 20 guests coming for thanksgiving as well as friends staying with us over Christmas and New Years.

Perhaps I should sleep on it, and wait to see what the Brain Trust comes up with overnight. Yes, that's it.