AIBU - to prefer my old shit to new stuff?

[Fontella]

Following on from the avocado bathroom suite thread ... my boyfriend's elderly mum has got a hardly used, all-singing all-dancing cooker that she wants to get rid of because she can't get on with it, and the boyfriend has asked me if I want it 'to replace your old shit one'?

I've got a cream coloured old Stoves cooker, with rusty bits and peeling paint. Plus we had mice living in the back of it once (long story) and I used to boot the oven door to scare the shit out of them every time I walked past, so it's all dented and battered.

But I like cooking on it, and it goes with my old style cottagey kitchen and I don't want the shiny new one even though it's free. He thinks I'm nuts.

What old shit have you got that you don't want to part with?

I'm also with you op.
Get them to put it on free-cycle and let the masses fight them for it!

On the plus side, at least your bf's mum is offering you something new. You haven't got one of those mums/ils who try to palm off all their old junk on you because they don't want it but can't bear to throw it out!

Anyway, I think it's nice to choose your own stuff and to appreciate and love the things you have, even when they are not all shiny and new.

As long as your cooker is safe, what's the problem? You say it's clean so that's a bonus, and I totally see it from your point of view.

YANBU.

I agree with you, OP. It is a very nice gesture on your boyfriends mums part, but if you love your old beaten up cooker, you gotta keep it! My house is furnished with random crap we've had donated over the years. And yeah, it probably looks crappy to an outsider, but I'd rather this than a show home. Also jealous of your country kitchen.

I've got a Stoves too, but not as fond of it as you are yours!

I had one once before and I hated it. I inherited in a flat I moved into and it looked good - it was a top of the range one - Burgundy coloured with brass fittings everywhere - but it was a bugger to cook on. Then one day I dropped a cast iron pan and it bounced through the oven door and smashed the glass!

I contacted Stoves and they wanted a fortune to repair / replace so I just used the hob and grill until I moved.

This one is a cheaper model, much more basic and it's got solid doors - only glass bit is the lid to the hob. I know it's tatty and I do need to do something about it, either a facelift or replace - but I don't want the one he's offering, as well meaning as it is, so I will tactfully decline.

I've just looked .. and to replace mine with a similar model would cost £679!!

So I think it's going to have to be the sandpaper and Hammerite!

A mix of old and news is more interesting. The juxtaposition of old wood and new metal or plastic (chairs, for example) is really stylish. All old, as in slavishly using authentic objects, or the all new, bought from Next or Heal's, looks dead.

This sort of thing really works:
i.pinimg.com/736x/9a/db/a0/9adba0ebc51be5df9ab5430ae1af19a2--rustic-modern-modern-industrial.jpg

...old and new...

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