I was 25...and it was a very, very old singer...can't remember much about it - I didn't sew back then - but had bought a house and the person contracted for drapes before I moved in didn't pan out....and so a friend had this very old machine that he had originally found in the trash - I think I paid $10.00 for it....and made all of my drapes til I burned that thing out..little did I know at the time how much I would be involved in sewing at this stage of my life :-)..You just never know...