I currently own 11. From older metal bodied ones that will get re-cammed some day for specialty sewing, a Johnson Ruffler, and up to my Janome 11000. Total elapsed count, 34. My first machine was a Singer 602and I totally wore it out. I like when I get into a project cycle to have the serger and 3-4 other machines set up to be able to work station to station. You can never have too many sewing machines.