Originally Posted by Glassquilt
If you can't afford to replace them and you are more comfortable unplugging them, unplug.
There are a dozen women in my quilt guilds who have had their computerized sewing machine fried because they didn't UNPLUG them from the walls and lightning struck a power source. At $1800 bucks a pop to repair them, we ALL unplug our machines and computers from the power strips and wall sockets.