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I’m like everyone else; sometimes I really, really want something. And I’m the one who preaches about deciding whether something is needed or just “wanted!” Like everyone, we’re really broke after the holidays, too. So this isn’t a good time for Will and me to stumble upon a simply gorgeous wood cookstove. But we did. I even put a bid on it when it was cheaper. The stove is on an online auction site, Do-Bid.com, here in Minnesota. The bidding is finished at 7 p.m. on the 8th and I suppose “our” stove will sell for around $300. Way too much for us right now. And, after all, it is a “want” more than a need. I do have a functioning wood range, although not a pretty one. So I just thought I’d let you peek into a Jackie weakness so you’ll know I’m just like you. — Jackie

25 COMMENTS

  1. My personal dream machine for years and years, a treadle sewing machine like my graandmother had. Oh the quilts we made with that. No electricity needed, controlable speed, a bit of excersize while doing something fun. I drool everytime I see one in good shape. LOL Maybe in the future. Grandma is probably looking down at me and laughing her head off, thinking of all the miles she put on that old machine.

  2. Any idea when that stove was made? Sure looks like something out of the late 1800s with all that beautiful nickel plated filigree. I’d sure like to have an 1880s parlor stove with bright nickel plating and mica for the glass…there’s a guy up in New England somewhere who restores them to working condition. I did finally find a genuine 1880s oil lamp, same type of ornate decoration on the font as that stove. Works too!

  3. I know! I know! I am LUSTING after a milk cow we can’t afford right now. We’ve got the need (4 hungry kids, most of them boys), the barn, the hay, the willingness……but not the cow. It’s just too much to swing. The price is so good, too. Yikes! I need to remind my heart that when the time’s right the money will be there too.

  4. marlene,

    Our insurance company just has us pay $5 extra per month for the wood range. Our living room stove had to be inspected and UL listed but we got no flack for having it. I do know that insurance companies are getting pretty strict about wood burners in some areas.

    Jackie

  6. All,

    Thanks for the support. I followed the bidding and was shocked at the final bidding price! Wow! I, too, usually can figure out some way to buy something we really, really need. But not that big a figure for something I don’t need. My present stove is worth only about $250 so that would still leave a lot and who knows how high the other bidder would go? I’m not sad but it was a pretty stove!

    Jackie

  7. Great minds and all that Jackie….. I have several stoves along these lines bookmarked on my computer. When I’m feeling ‘lustful’ I go and visit the webpages and drool for a while then go back to real life…… As my mother used to say, ‘if you’re going to dream then dream big since chances are it’s only a dream’……lol.

  9. Oh, I don’t scheme to cheat or fool anyone! I just scheme in my head as to how to afford things. Of course, some times I just cannot swing the money part of the scheme. The shopping is fun.

  10. Sometimes, it is just important a functional item be beautiful, also. However, it is even more important that it is affordable!

    You could have sold your present stove and that would have made the price lower. I am a schemer when it comes to figuring out where to get money, especially by selling things to get things…lol.

  12. only problem, insurance doesn’t cover most woodburning cookstoves. and that hurts. is there a way around that? Marlene

  13. Jackie,
    I just checked out the website and see that this beautiful stove went for over $1,000!! I also believe that you will get your special stove in the future. I want to take this opportunity to thank you for sharing all your experiences. You are a real inspiration to us all!

    P.S. I am eyeing up a 2 burner wood stove with a white porcelain front on Craigslist that is selling for $50 just a few miles down the road from me. I should jump at it for that price!

    David / Wisconsin

  14. Hi, Jackie!
    You never what life will bring! Remember how you loved the electric grinder? Will gave you one of those for Christmas. :)
    We enjoy your posts and have learned so much from your wisdom.

  15. What a beautiful stove, have never seen one like it. We all lust for something. After 4 years in a single wide a real house is on the top of my list, I have to keep believing God has a plan for us all and He will revel it in His own time. There will be a beautiful stove for you in the future. Blessings!

  16. I have “lusted” after these too but oh are they expensive new and even used. That”s partly why I don’t have one. We don’t have room in our kitchen for one either without a lot of remodeling. Maybe someday.

  17. jackie,
    just read that you stopped at $100, sorry.
    you’ll find another.
    good things come to those that wait.
    melody/upstate new york

  19. I have been wishing for one for years but around here there worth more than a poor girl can afford.Even well used.Wish I could help you get that one it is really beautiful.

  20. All,

    Thanks but I backed out of the bidding at around $100; can’t afford even that right now. Sigh. I’ll live through it though. It IS a gorgeous stove, isn’t it??

    Jackie

  23. I want a wood cookstove too. What I really want is my Granny’s old wood cookstove but alas a cousin got it after Granny passed away. Um, that was 27 years ago and I still envy my cousin for getting it.

  24. Hope you win but really glad if you do I don’t have to clean all the curlyques. Good luck. It is beautiful.

  25. Great minds think alike..I was looking at Wood cookstoves on our local”Craigs List”..There are several beautiful kitchen woodstoves listed..We would do nothing if we didn’t wish and dream..Hope you win,Jackie.Keep us posted,please…

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