maviskw

I have this set-up too. My iron has a light that blinks when it is not heating. While I'm ironing something very large, and have the iron flat on the ironing board for a long time, the heat goes off and the light starts to blink. I just have to flip the iron up and down again to go back to heat mode. But if the iron is turned off, the light continues to blink, and when I come back the next day, the handle is very warm. So it is continuously using current. That's why I use the set-up ManiacQuilter has.

But my sewing machine is a different story. Even though it is plugged into a strip with a switch, that switched strip is plugged in somewhere behind the table. (I forgot where, but I would have to crawl on my belly to find it.) I know that lightning can follow wires even if the switches are off, so the best way to interrupt this flow of electricity is to unplug. But I didn't want to unplug from the strip either. I pull the plug at the machine and hang that end of the cord around the thread spool holder. That way I can see immediately that the machine is unplugged and have learned to replug it by brail. I can feel where it goes.