Check out your local Craig's List (Kijiji here in Canada). I've found a 301 Singer for $35, two Featherweights for $60 and a Singer 201 with a great cabinet for free. These were all from family members trying to clean up estates. My son who buys a lot with Kijiji says not to worry about buying machines from this source as no one sells sewing machines except other sewers or their poor families trying to clean up after they are gone.