You will have an ever growing list of wants for a longarm. I have had mine for 5 years, and I am still getting new stuff for it - rulers and pantographs mainly. I use two old-fashioned curtain rods to hold up the side clamps, they have the bent ends that hold onto the roller bars so they don't slide off. My machine came with a ruler and base plate, corsage pins, and a magnetic bowl to keep them in. I already had literally hundreds of spools of thread from years of sewing and serging, some I can use with the LA and some not.