My response would be either:

"To each his own", said the little old lady as she kissed her cow.
Or
Everyone in the world is peculiar but me and thee, and sometimes I worry about thee.

Or how about?
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

These old machine last, how many of the new machines crash or are obsolete after 5 years? It's great that you bring them back to life. Throwing things away is just way to easy these days.

I guess I am wierd too, but proud of it!! :lol:

Proud to be a member of this "weird" offshoot group. Except, nothing weird about us at all...it's them that have the problem!! LOL!

i think i should join your clan to. i have a featherweight, a 301, a 99, and a hand crank (all singers). i also have 2 new machines i use all the time, the first singer my parents gave me when i was in high school (so many years ago) and a brother from the 60's a friend gave me. yes. . . if i gave up some of my machines i too would have more room.

People who pass those sorts of comments on others' pass times are generally Philistines...
Keep up the weirdness if it makes you happy and does harm to no - one.

I have 5 Singer treadles, 7 Featherweights, don't know how many 99's we have, a few 15's and a couple of 128's in addition to two antique "salesmen" Singers, a Wilcox and Gibbs and an 1861 Grover and Baker treadle. All this in a Double Wide Mobile Home. I finally had to cancel my DH's PayPal account and not let him have the password to mine. LOL

Sounds perfectly normal to me. ;-)

Much to my husbands chagrin.. it sounds just like me.
...wait, I'm not weird, I'm "eccentric!"8-)

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Gosh I'm glad I am in such good company. My DIL tells me I only have two hands so it is crazy to have multiple machines.
So glad she is in CA. and I am in VA.

Count me in that group! Yesterday I walked into Goodwill and right there before my eyes was a beautiful old Singer machine with the old shuttle bobbin casing. The decals looked perfect like the machine was barely used...and....here comes the sad part....a man was looking at the machine. I made a comment about how beautiful it was and he asked me to tell him about the machine...so I did. Then, he said he was only buying it to try to make money off the machine! He asked what I thought it was worth (the price tag was $49.95) and I told him I thought it was worth hours and hours of fun sewing and quilting. I said it was worth the money. The motor was strong and it was in prestine condition! Oh...how I wanted that machine! But, he had first dibs on it so I walked away and when I came back to the front of the store, the man and the Singer were gone!