Several years ago I bought my Kenmore/Janome machine and loved it. My Singer went in the closet until my daughter started sewing. Then I bought my Viking emb machine. My daughter said her singer was messing up so I let her take my Kenmore home and she fell in love with it and said I was never getting it back. Then she called me at work one day and asked if she could use my Viking and I told her no because the last time I let her use a machine she kept it. Then she said there is one difference this time and so of course I asked her what that was, she said the difference was that I'd never allow her to take my Viking out of my house. I just laughed. The rest of my stuff she borrows back and forth. I've never had anyone else ask but when it comes to my Viking it doesn't go out of the house without me. The same goes for my Babylock Ovation serger. I could never afford to replace them and neither would she.