Disposability...so ungreen!

We bought our last microwave nearly two years ago. A GE "Spacesaver"...considered a mid-sized microwave I discovered from my research today.

A nice microwave with lots of special buttons, including Jodie's favorite "popcorn" button. We really loved it...it did everything we needed a microwave to do...until a couple days ago. It would turn on, the fan and light and carousel ran...but no heat!

I did some Googling. It could be a fuse or a diode, but more likely it was a control something another. $92 for the part and whatever for labor...for a microwave that cost $119.

I was perplexed. A good microwave that served us well for nearly two years. It would most likely cost more to fix than replace. It seems so ungreen to replace rather than repair, but we did not want to deal with the inconvenience of taking it to a repair shop and risk paying more to get fixed.

We went to Fred Meyer. Two Sharp Carousel microwaves caught our eye. One was $99 and had a single special sensor "popcorn" button. Jodie would have been happy with that one. The other was $30 more with several sensor buttons. One was mid-sized and one was large. We went for the large one.

Now we have a broken mid-sized microwave to dump. Helping the economy, while thumbing our nose to planet Earth.

So ungreen!