THE FAMILY SEWING MACHINE
Sewing machines may be useful from time to time but they may also take up a lot of space if they’re not being used. Not to mention the furniture-sized Singer sewing machines. As popular as they were in the old days, they are hardly worth anything today.
“I have never found one that was rare enough to be valuable,” says Elizabeth Stewart, author of “No Thanks Mom: The Top Ten Objects Your Kids Do NOT Want (and what to do with them).”