Ok, you guys are the best, and too funny lol. Would you believe, i thought the cone was sposed to spin like a regular spool of thread lol. Ok, so this is very cool. I normally buy wal-mart thread for 50 cents, 125 meters on a spool. I bought a cone of serger thread at the dollar store, 1200 meters! Ten times as much for just a buck, so that's why i wanted to try it. And when you guys said the thread gets pulled from the top, i laughed and said, NO WAY!!! lol lol So i put the cone on the floor, and yanked and yanked on the thread, and silly cone didnt even fall over! lol lol This is too funny, i had no idea how the cones worked, just thought hey, worth trying. Thanks for the hint, that i can just put the spool on my sewing table, now i'm all set to go. You guys are always too darn smart, amazing what we learn from each other :)