What has become of me?!?!

I have friends who look at houses all the time even when they're not in the market to buy one.  I do that with home appliances.  When we bought our house, we offered a lower price than they were asking for several reasons, one of which was to replace the dishwasher and stove.

We've lived in a lot of rentals in the past, and nearly every single one had cheap Hotpoint appliances.  We were pretty bummed to walk into our now-home and see Hotpoint appliances.  We loved almost everything about the house but that.  Our dishwasher is awful.  It's loud, it leaks water out the front door, doesn't clean that well unless you REALLY load it up with soap and now it's leaking disgusting amounts of rust water from the rinse agent dispenser.  No clue why, but it's grossing me out to open up the dishwasher and see this orange/brown/red liquid oozing down the door (if anyone can tell me why this is happening I will bake you cookies in my also awful stove!).  Our second mystery is that the detergent cup only opens about half of the time, so often I find myself having to wash dishes twice.  Talk about a $$ and water waster!  I thought it was from powdered detergent clogging the cup, but it gets stuck with liquid detergent, too.  Any plumbers/handymen/appliance repair folk in the house?

But in comparison to our stove, the dishwasher is a dream.  Our oven is not self-cleaning.  That's tough for me because I am not a stove-cleaning kinda gal.  It's got that impossible-to-keep-clean cooktop, like this:

I love cooking and baking, but it's kind of tough when baking times are so off because our oven apparently doesn't heat evenly or properly.  It doesn't alert me when it's preheated.  I've never had a stove that didn't beep when it was preheated!  Call me spoiled, I know, but it really bothers me.

The original plan, like I said, was to buy new appliances right away.  But we never got around to it.  And now we just can't justify it.  So I frequent Best Buy or Sears' websites and drool over dishwashers and ovens.  And every once in awhile I become obsessed and can't stop thinking about them.  Like now.  I would totally buy this stove:

And this dishwasher...

...if $1350 dropped into my lap from the sky.  Yep I would.


Times have changed.  When did new kitchen appliances and finding a new recipe for toothpaste start to trump things like designer jeans and fancy dinners out?