Hope you feel better Miriam, I will have to try your stress relieving method sometime. Right now all I've got is boxed refrigerator wine for a totally stressed out day, lol, it will do for now.

The only thing you can really do about stress is to change your attitude. BUT sometimes hitting something feels mighty good until the attitude changes...

I hope you get some fun responses. The next ad you place should be full of typos and grammar mistakes (to be legit). :>

maybe I should re-write it - help!

Change attitude reminds me of my mother saying, "When I'm having difficulty getting along, I know it's me and my attitude and I change it." I try to live by it. Sometimes not very well. Sorry, I'll get back on topic. Your've poking fun at the ads and your "relief of stress" is helping relieve my stress. Thank You!

I have three touch & sew machines -- love them. Had one since it was new. Also have another 600e that was about to be tossed -- fixed it, but am going to use it for parts when it becomes necessary. They are what I turn to when the others are giving me attitude!

That was so on point. u gotta do what u gotta do .Hope you feel better, you gave us all a good LOL .

I'd like to do that with a number of things!

I have one I really like, too - not a thing wrong with it. If those have issues they are a PITB to repair...

Miriam you sound like a hoot! Wish I lived close enough to invite you over for coffee.

I got another reply:
" Hello there,
Please i want to know if the displayed item on CL is still up for sale and what are terms and conditions and also the final price.Thanks
John"

Do you think he read the ad or looked at the pictures???

I wish I had everybody here for neighbors. So far nobody in Indianapolis hangs out here. I must be "too" crazy.

he is going to say he will send you $1000 because you seem like such a nice person and you can send him back the difference!

I got two more replies:

"Instant payment available during pick up. Let me know if you still have it for sale.. Reply me as soon as you can to this my work address"[email protected]"

and

"Are you mentally challenged? What. The hell kind of ad is this for a smashed up sewing machine?"
at least she read the ad... "

should I reply to the second one??? Oh and I changed the ad just a little... http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/art/4131884795.html

I wonder if the lady who thought I was mentally challenged would have sent the same reply for a machine that is rusted???

If it don't work, Don't pass it on . KILL IT............... Good Job :eek:

Every now & then I want to throw my machine out the window but then I apologize for treating it so badly. Thanks for making my morning giggle!

I sure have wanted to throw a serger out a window.

I would reply to the second one. Ask her if she wants to come over for the next smash session.

i could charge admission

Hilarious.

I revised the CL ad again:
http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/art/4131884795.html

Oh Miriam, you need to revise again. There were at least half a dozen words spelled right :D
I like this a hole lot!

Just for you, Mike, I'll keep tweaking that ad. Any new lines appreciated, too.

Miriam,

I love your sense of humor! I have laughed myself silly while reading this. There have been times I wanted to smash a machine when it failed to work, not limited to sewing machines, either! LOLG

God Bless. Hope your stress is relieved!

Jeanette Frantz

you know I wasn't even using a sewing machine. I was trying to get a few things moved. I found this in the depths of the garage - I think it set too close to the leak in the roof for years. Had I known what I know now it might have been made to work. BUT I'm sure there are others out there who have had their share of failures. It was a spur of the moment thing DH actually did most of the sledgehammer work. I just got to do the finishing touches. BUT he had fun, too. Plus it got the garage just that much cleaner. We can still recycle the bits of aluminum that separated out. I just hope we got them all so we don't hit them with the mower...

Love the revised ad and slashed the price bit. Still the same price but probably nobody but us knows that!!!!

I love your saying, "Never let your sewing machine know you are in a hurry", I can sooo relate!!

I got a spam reply from CL I quote:
"This is the type of machine I learned to sew on! How much are you asking, please, and... where are you located? Thank you"
I know this is spam because they sent it as a reply for another ad I had on CL... I bet they don't even look at the ads.

More madness:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...e-t234338.html

I shot some pics:
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you never know what will turn up on my work bench
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it was a job getting it in the post office shipper
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it is ready for the next CL spammer

Yessirebob it is loaded in a shipper box:
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I was out of town when you posted this, and I'm thankful that I happened upon it today because it's just what I needed to see. Yesterday I bought a Craiglist Necchi Supernova, which the nice seller said in his ad: "works fine". You are not going to believe this, but I did not even ask him to plug it in and show me that it works, because we settled on a price that was such that I might have paid it for just the cabinet, which is a very functional style, even if it's not real wood. Also, I'd rather make sure that there's some oil in a machine before turning it on, and he lived in such a nice area and was so pleasant - and who the heck knows why!

Anyway, I brought it home, but didn't bring it in and try it out because DH has had surgery on a finger and still has stitches and can't help me move furniture at the moment. (That can wait, of course.) Operating purely on faith, I then went on eBay and paid quite a bit for a set of cams and attachments and a manual - all without knowing whether the machine will sew. Today I finally decided that maybe - maybe - it wouldn't be a bad idea to bring the head up here and plug it in. The light comes on - proof that my power source isn't the problem. The motor is dead silent. Could be the foot pedal, or...

In any case, although I'm not about to take a sledge hammer to this sweet little night light/door stop, it does my heart good to witness this option in case things get just too unbearable.

I'm pouting because I didn't hold out for a pink one in working order!

Are there little switches on the right side of the machine? Did you try them before you tried to sew?

Can you put a Lydia motor in a Supernova? If so, I can help.

Are the motors external or internal?

Yes, thank you. I tried the switches. For the motor they're "Min" and "Max", so it should work either way. Not the slightest response. Truth is, I'm just theorizing that it actually has a motor - kidding I hope.

It's in the post, but there's something in a housing under those switches. I don't know how complex it might be.

Thank you so much for the offer, Anastasia! Eventually, I may PM about that. I don't know the answer. I think mine is quite a bit earlier, and maybe the design was altered. But it may be a little premature to go with changing it out, considering the problem may be the foot pedal or wiring.

In any case, nothing that couldn't be fixed permanently with a sledge hammer!

you need an electrical tester

Good point. The pedal doesn't work. I have opened it up to see why, and it's not the wiring but some broken parts that don't allow it to make a connection. Since the wires are a bit stiff anyway, I opted to replace the pedal with a new, pre-wired one. I believe the machine will be okay. It makes pretty stitches with just turning the hand wheel. I could treadle it, if nothing else. No sledgehammer for this one.

Thanks, everyone, for all the kind interest and help! I do have at least one hopeless mess of a machine, a Kenmore with plastic innards, that may have quit sewing the first time it was used. It looked as if nobody had ever used it, and I paid very little, which I don't regret because it came with several shiny new feet, screwdrivers, needles and such, and a working 1.0 amp motor. I wound up using the foot pedal from it on an older machine.

The sad thing about a bad machine is that the person who had it originally may have been someone with no sewing experience who may have given up the whole idea of sewing because of the hopelessness and disappointment it caused. These machines came with impressive warranties, but inexperienced owners sometimes don't take them in because they assume it's something they're doing wrong. If anything ever deserved a sledge treatment, that was it.