I understand completely! I was going to buy a featherweight (like I need another sewing machine!)...but instead I dug my old 1978 out of the closet, serviced it and now take it to and from class. We are snowbirds and I haven't been taking my sewing machine with me and have really missed it! So this year I am taking that old Singer with me. It is so small compared to todays machines, I hadn't realized how much sewing machines had "Grown". LOL