Buying new appliances isn’t easy. One thing that my husband and I noticed was that salespeople were always trying to talk us into buying appliances with lots of bells and whistles. We knew that they were features that we’d never use and we didn’t find necessary.  Some of the features added thousands of dollars to the final cost. We like to cook, but we didn’t want to spend $20,000 on appliances.  We wanted well built and quality appliances.  We spent a lot of time reading appliance reviews and talking with friends and family about appliance brands.