One of the most important tenets of the project to live frugally in order to achieve freedom from debt is that there is no such thing as a useless item, and that in the case of almost everything, used items are as good as new ones.  If you are trying to save money in order to remodel your house (perhaps to remodel it for sale or just to remodel it so that it will be more energy efficient), you are probably trying to think of things you have that you could sell.  Despite the fact that you have the resale and repurposing of items on your mind, you may not have given much thought to what you will do with your current kitchen appliances when you remodel your kitchen.  Unless you have a relative that you can give your kitchen equipment to, you probably didn’t have a plan for it