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Old 03-28-2012, 06:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Monroe View Post
What is the difference between collector and hoarder? I would think a collector is perhaps a selective hoarder, and a hoarder has gone around the bend into a mega-packrat?
Well, I think the hoarders just stack stuff up and get buried in it! Most of us are very selective about our collections - at least I am! I have given machines away to make room for something else I wanted more. I am very selective about which machines come into my house now, although, if I see one at a yard sale or barn sale, whatever, I can't pass it up - but, I will bring it home, clean it up, and give it away or to hospice! My house is not cluttered, I don't have machines from wall to wall, but I do have several in the house - but, half of my machines live in our cargo unit outside that I have made into a machine museum. The only bad thing about that is that it gives me room to get more! I am afraid of becoming a hoarder, but with my affinity to clutter and a messy house I doubt that ever happens!

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Old 03-28-2012, 06:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Charlee View Post
It's going to be a #9, and the needles are a Boye 18, or a 127x1....obsolete, but I think there's a substitute for them now...
I got a large stash of the Boye 18's and the 127x1 off of E-bay. A bit pricey, but available! I use my W&W and my Singer 9w for mending. One of them sits in our bedroom ready to mend at any time.

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Old 03-28-2012, 07:29 AM
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Wow, Charlee. It would be very tempting to start moving your collection into one of the storage lockers:>
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Because we live in an apartment where we work, (a storage facility) the boss claims he's going to have to reinforce the floors because of the weight of my cast iron collection and all of the sewing machines! I haven't even brought the heaviest one in yet...it's a Brother Industrial that was given to me! LOL!
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Old 03-28-2012, 07:40 AM
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That machine looks very much like my New Home T No 3 with the coffin top featuring the Tree of Life design.

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I thought the same when I saw the CL posting. You have a very pretty machine!
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Old 03-28-2012, 07:46 AM
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Wow, Charlee. It would be very tempting to start moving your collection into one of the storage lockers:>
I was thinking the same thing.
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Old 03-28-2012, 07:53 AM
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Nope! No can do!! Not going into a storage unit!! NO WAY! I'd have to go out there to sew...they'd get ignored... not happening!
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Old 03-28-2012, 08:05 AM
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That's a pretty machine Jon, you gonna get it?
I'm really tempted but must decrease rather than increase my hoard of machines Only machines I'm really looking to add are a few Davis heads and the $20 Featherweight.
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Old 03-28-2012, 08:09 AM
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Originally Posted by miriam View Post
Those penguins mostly just lay eggs - hatch out bobbins with tangled thread.
LOL!! Left a few of those hatchlings in my boxes...tangled bobbins everywhere!!! LOL
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Old 03-28-2012, 08:25 AM
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Annamaria, you are right...that one is a beauty!!
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Old 03-28-2012, 08:30 AM
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Good price, too, Jon. Did you go get it? Maybe a little too far?
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