I started "saving" one at a estate sale of a friends mother.....a Singer 319w and "fell in love"------and today I bought number 46------people tell me I "don't need" that many (only one doesn't work) Need has nothing to do with it----I enjoy sewing with them, looking at them, looking up their history, talking with others about them------sure, they take up alittle more room than salt and pepper shakers-----but not as much as elephants......