My DH and I just celebrated our 32nd anniversary last week, and his and my birthdays are within the next 3 weeks, so for Christmas, we usually don't give each othe any gifts. BUT...having said that, my Singer 1280 just gave up the ghost, and I had to go out and buy a new machine. (DH said to forget repairing the Singer, get what you want!) I got the Brother CS770 at Hancock's yesterday (Wed.) They have a senior discount (55 or over) on the 1st Wed. of each month. So I took DH and got a $28.00 discount! The only thing I really didn't like about my singer was that you couldn't drop the feed dogs.