I have bought my last vintage sewing machine (unless a 201 or a pretty little 99 comes along). ;-)
Seriously, I passed stage 5 a couple of years ago when I finally asked my friends to stop bringing the machines home to me. (I swear they were always finding them in 2nd hand stores, barns and who knows where.)
I've passed stage 6 since I feel like my house is swimming in machines and I don't know where to put all of them. (I thought about moving but realized it would be easier to stop collecting sewing machines.)
I've moved on to stage 7 which is donating a lot of them to friends and organizations. (It is sort of like having a garden of zuchinnis. Everytime someone comes to visit I try to give them a machine.)
I haven't entered stage 8 yet. I still have around 10 machines with two of them being featherweights. My son is trying to talk me out of one of the featherweights and I'm trying to talk him into one of the 301s. You know, he just may talk me out of the featherweight. I might give one to him and to his sister for Christmas.
By the way, my neighbor has gotten the bug from me. Poor lady.
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