My boys are 40 and 43 with no wives or kids. We have 2 dogs that want out 100 times a day.Our min pin is just about 6 months old so I don't want to leave my foot feet for my sewing machine alone with him. I keep picking it up and down. My sewing machine I got new 5 years ago and has never left my kitchen table. I have no place else to put it.