# Modern device your parents had that you don’t have now **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 28, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-device-your-parents-had-that-you-don-t-have-now/970470 "2022-08-28T14:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 114
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-device-your-parents-had-that-you-don-t-have-now/970470/114 "2022-08-29T23:01:54Z")
> [@doreen](#): > > I’m pretty sure home sewing machines have been mostly “pointless” for so long that almost nobody alive today had a mother who in any way needed a home sewing machine. For what it’s worth… My wife (age 59) grew up, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, primarily wearing clothes that her mother and her grandmother sewed on their sewing machines. Strictly speaking, they didn’t _ **need** _ the sewing machines, because, yes, store-bought clothes were available. However, her family was not well-off, and sewing clothes, at home, allowed them to stretch their clothing budget much further than it would have gone buying clothes at a store. So, from the standpoint of balancing a tight budget, yes, they did _ **need** _ those machines. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-device-your-parents-had-that-you-don-t-have-now/970470)._