Ken you're not that much different in your machine choices except you have better taste.
I buy what I like and can afford, usually cheap and needing work. I'm a sucker for sad bas***ds, orphans and basket cases. My first reaction is: "I can fix that." We're up to 9 machines at the moment so I'm slowing down on bringing more home and am learning to look for features that fill a need instead of "I like it and it's cheap".
I've got my work cut out for me at the moment. I gave my daughter a Singer 99 (1 of 2, both needing work) and just signed her up for 4H where she will need a portable machine. I have a full-sized Montgomery Wards machine that's ready but it's heavy. I'm building cases for both 99s so they're portable and doing whatever else is necessary for them to sew.
My wife also surprised me with a machine that I picked up Monday. I'll do a thread for it when I can get some decent pictures taken. It needs some work to run too but will shortly be my favorite machine.
Rodney