They are certainly not an impulse buy, for sure. I would love one but I want a really good one with all the bells and whistles. The only way to justify it would be to get the one that has a payment plan or do it as a business and quilt for others. I have weighed my too most valuable assets....time versus money. Do I want to spend all my time quilting for others to pay off a machine? Nope, I'll send out my really large quilts to a long armer and do the smaller ones on my domestic sewing machine. Now if I win the lottery?....that's a whole different story!