In 1963 I bought a Necchi as a used machine, it was a repossessed which were quite common at that time, I used it and sewed MANY dollars worth of my clothes, curtains, my daughter's clothes....also used a Toyota Serger...then I saw an ad for a New Home 8000 and fell in love, then came the Babylock Ellageo, Ellissmo, and a Babylock Serger. I always had two Singer treadles but used them as decorations. I remarried a man who had a Singer Upolstery machine, two vintage Singers... Last year I found a FW reasonable....