Re-Useable Shopping Bags

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I know you're kidding, but I saved ALL the sewing-related whoozits that my late mother had. So much better made than stuff we buy now. I wish I could have kept her 1950s Kenmore sewing machine, too; I'm sure you could sew sheet metal with that thing.

Very true!

I used to sew a lot, then haven't had a sewing machine for the past 12 years or so.
A few weeks ago, someone gave us an old 1970's Sears Kenmore machine that had a broken pedal and had lost its table that it fit into. It wobbled on 3 'legs' since it was not intended to stand alone. It had some other weird issues too.
We bought a manual for it. My husband made a new plate for the pedal and got it working, and he made a another leg for it so it could stand alone without wobbling. We took things apart and logically figured out the other little problems it had and fixed those. There were a couple of strange adjustments that someone had done to the working parts long ago, but we corrected them. Then we cleaned and oiled it and adjusted the tension.
Now it works great!! It's got all the fancy stitches too. I bought new needles and bobbins, etc. I just hemmed up some jeans shorts.
Many of those parts inside machines today are now made of plastic instead of metal, and I think this machine must surely be better made than the ones today.
So now I have a nice smooth running 'recycled' sewing machine.