Okay...you can all laugh if you want to. LOL I couldn't resist commenting on this post.
I have a brother XL2600 we bought at Walmart back in 2006. We paid $139.00.
I love it. Its been good to me. It doesn't have a blanket stitch and that is the only thing I do not like about it. But at the time, I had no clue what a blanket stitch was.
But it does have a needle threader...oh my gosh....next machine I get WILL HAVE ONE of them. Plus this has a drop in bobbin I guess is what you call it.
Shes been a good Bertha!!! And I hope that she lives to the ripe old age of 50 LOL.