My first sewing machine was a Household (I think) brand.My husband bought it for me from a pawnshop when I was 17 & pg with my first child. When I gave him a son @ the age of 21, he bought me a new machine.That son is 46 now & I don't remember the brand. When we went to Germany in '72, he bought me the Pfaff 1222, which I wore out.My son bought me my Viking 500,15 yrs.ago. And that's my baby! I have a old singer 400 that my quilt teacher gave me that I quilt on.I learn to sew on my grandmothers treadle sewing machine.Daddy traded it for a zigzag machine just before he died but mother wouldn't let me have it when I married so young,(16).