I was like you -- never thought I'd spend the money. Even figured out how many quilts I'd have to do for myself to get it paid for....NOOOOO!!!! WELL, a friend decided to move to Arizona and asked me to babysit his. :) :) I'm HOOKED! I love figuring out what design to do and playing on my TOY! Yes, expensive --- but I've always been frugal, never had much in my life and and and -- yeah, searching for reasons to have paid that much....:) Come to think of it -- DH paid $8000 for a new boat .......yeah, I can buy me a machine that cost $9000. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: