For my 16th birthday my grandmother gifted me with a good sized strawberry pink pincushion. Flash forward to age 50. We cut the well used pincushion open and found about 70 needles. Agreed, the older needles do seem better and they were with my sewing tools all that time. Did a lot of garment sewing over the years. Probably the only pincushion used by my daughter and myself. Have four here and there now.