Before I was married, I used my grandmother's Featherweight. My much older sister, who was married and had two machines, one of which came from my other grandmother. I didn't especially care for the second g'mtr's machine, but couldn't understand why my sister needed 2, so I complained mightily, to no avail. However, for a wedding present, from my sister and BIL, I was surprised with a new JCPenney machine, which was plenty until tonight, when I bought a new Brother from Wal-Mart. It does 80 different stitches, including buttonholes, has stop/start button that I didn't hear of until I got on this board, and it FMQ's! Wow. That's plenty for me. So, after 36 years, I got my second machine.