The new microwave is great! My only complaint is that the light does not
come on when you open the door. Only when you are cooking. Not such a big
complaint I guess. But it is smaller than the old one. I wanted smaller.
We mainly only use it to reheat a plate of food. Although once in a while I
will do a casserole in there if we want it quickly and don't care if it
browns on the top. I checked the casseroles that I kept and several will
fit in there so it's all good. Plus the red color looks great!

After cleaning off the shelving unit that is in the dining room that had
contained food that wouldn't fit in the kitchen, like cereal, I had a whole
empty shelf. I decided to move my remaining two Crock-Pots and my stand
mixer to that shelf. That freed up the "dead" space where the Crock-Pots
were. They were under the microwave. So I moved a little wire shelf under
there and it now has the jars of nut/seed butter underneath and some little
things on the top like gum and mints.

The mixer had been almost in the corner. There is actually a little stand
in the corner with a drawer in it and on top are things like my scale and
some odds and ends that are being stored in the giant metal bowl that I use
for big pasta salads that I take to potlucks. We have all kinds of little
decorative toothpicks and those are in there. Angela likes to decorate my
husband's food. She has some that are goals and footballs for use during
football game meals.

Anyway... I now have some additional free space on my counter top! And I
really needed it.