Help! My daughter wants my sewing machine!

[rebeccas-sewing]

As I'm growing older I find I'm not quite as sentimental about certain things the way I was in the past. In terms of sewing machines, there are so many fantastic non-computerized machines on the market these days at really reasonable prices that passing on an old machine to someone else wouldn't be a problem for me. The features that many of the low-end models have on them now make it very desirable to just get a new machine. I understand folks collecting the old featherweight machines from the past but honestly I don't think in fifty years we'll be looking at today's machines as antiquities worth keeping. One never knows though, but somehow I doubt I'll be feeling sentimental about the machines currently in my sewing room. This, however, is coming from me, a gal who is desparate to downsize. My blood pressure rises every time I look at all the stuff being stored in our attic. I've managed about ten trips to charity and it's barely made a dent. I guess once the kids clear out and my husband does some house cleaning up there things will seem more manageable. That's one good thing about moving once in a while. It sure does help keep the baggage down. My advice is to give your daughter the machine and buy yourself a new one. I'm selfish that way. Why would I give my kid a better machine than I'm using?