To have chucked the microwave...

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I never use the microwave. DP and teenage DCs use it regularly.
When cleaning the kitchen I, usually, just wipe around the outside of the microwave as I assumed inside was being cleaned after each use.
Today I opened it. OMFG!! Disgusting doesn't cover it. Turntable, door, roof, all walls were CAKED in food. Not the odd spatter, full on encased. My oven is cleaner and it hasn't been cleaned for 3 months.
I fully lost it and threw it out in the garden for the scrapman.
DP says I'm being ridiculous. I think, if they can't wipe over the thing after use, they don't deserve to have it.

@virginpinkmartini “property that isn’t yours”... so why is her DH not permitted to own “property”? Also an A+ way to raise your children - teach them that they live in this house and own things at the whims of their mother, who can apparently destroy things with zero notice or warning to make some sort of bizzare point about “respect”. It’s a bit disturbing to hear the OP call her DC and her DH her property so she can basically treat them how she likes.

Honestly, a microwave can look like a bomb site after one instance of putting mince or something in there uncovered. By the OP’s own admission she’s never looked inside before so for all she knows it’s usually kept clean. She didn’t even give her family a chance to explain or apologise, just jumped straight to batshit behaviour.

Yabu. Love my microwave. All you had to do was ask them to clean it! I brought microwave plate/bowl cover thing from ikea - best thing ever as hardly have to clean microwave. Just throw cover in dishwasher

I would have been tempted to do the same, but wouldnt have I don't think.

You could have cleaned it out and out it on freecycle. Could have been really useful to someone.

I expect your DH will decide to buy another one and maybe they will clean it this time to prevent it being removed.

YANBU - if they won't clean it why should you keep a health hazard in your house? I have lived without a microwave for six months now as never got round to buying one when I moved house.....haven't missed it one iota

How incredibly wasteful to toss out a working electrical item because it wasn’t clean. Why didn’t you get them to clean it.... or if you didn’t want it you could have offered it on Freecycle and let someone else have the use of it. Now it’s just going to end up in landfill.

I got rid of mine about a year ago and tbh I don’t miss it at all.

@Dyrne At what point did I call my DP or DC my property??

Bit of a waste really if it’s still in working order, you could have asked them to clean it out.

Lol she left it out for the scrapman, which is effectively recycling. She didn't take a sledgehammer to it.

If the OP paid for it herself, I can't get mad about it if she wanted to give it away after being left coated in food scum. If the kids paid for it/DH then yes, they should have been given a second chance.

Mine went to the tip about 9 months ago. DP insisted on heating up things like soup and beans in it, without covering them. I only ever used it for heating milk for coffee.

Although he used to "clean" it, he failed to notice that it had a "ceiling" that got splattered with shite and when I found stalactites of ancient baked bean juice hanging from the top of the inside, I asked him if he'd rather clean it or chuck it out.

He opted for chucking it out, so off it went, and I'm very much enjoying the extra space on the worktop.

I'm very jealous of those who get a scrap man coming round. I go to the tip so often, I reckon I deserve frequent flyer points. The tip is only open from 9-4, so it's massively busy at the weekends. I'd love to be able to put stuff out for someone to collect.

Missing the point a bit. But who the fuck actually has a scrap man these days
Or even if they do, one that would take away a skanky old clogged up microwave!!

Are you sure you didn’t just put it in the binn

YABU.

If

• you don't use it,
• you'd never noticed it before and
• they're happy with it as it is

then really it's none of your business. Why make a big drama out of it?

We have a scrapman. Our broken dishwasher disappeared in less than 3 hours after us putting it in the front garden.

We'd only done that to make space for the new one and hadn't actually thought about the logistics of getting rid of it other than some vague Idea of 'we'll have to take it to the tip' so a job for us was saved.

You sound more immature than your 13 year old DC. Why couldn't you have cleaned it, while cleaning other things? I wouldn't expect my DC to clean the oven, and I wouldn't expect them to clean the microwave, either. So you through out a vital piece of cooking equipment (I don't know anyone who doesn't use a microwave at least once a month, even to defrost something quick) just because it wasn't clean inside, and as the adult, it was your responsibility to clean? You sound incredibly immature and foolish. You will regret throwing it out, and you will find you have to buy a new one sooner rather than later.

Why on earth should she have to clean it when its her partner and teenage children who are using it and leaving it in that state? What kind of a message does that send out - that it's fine to leave something dirty and not clean and someone else will sort it out?