Why some people to the rural areas to buy sewing machines, before the old sewing machine can still be sold for how much money now?

Some people go to the countryside to buy sewing machines, some of the old sewing machines can be sold to the price of 2000 yuan, if the equipment is normal and in good condition, it can be sold directly to about 6000 yuan. Now recalling the childhood sewing machine can be said to be full of memories, after all, whenever we go home will hear the mother in the bedside of the sewing machine for us to sew clothes, the kind of tick-tock machine sound is still echoing in the mind. However, as the standard of living became better and better, the sewing machine became obsolete. In the 70s and 80s, it was a very precious dowry and a must-have household item for every family.

Now we basically can't see the figure of the sewing machine, because every family is now doing clothes or mending clothes with the kind of automatic sewing machine instead, to know in the seventies and eighties to buy a sewing machine but it cost more than 100 yuan, we according to the wages at that time to calculate the monthly salary of an ordinary worker is about 30 yuan. The monthly salary of an average worker was about 30 dollars. To buy a sewing machine would cost them three or four months' wages. If you take away some of the cost of food, a sewing machine could cost them a year's savings.

Many years have passed, and now sewing machines are not so sought-after, but he has become an antique, some people will specialize in visiting rural families, and can pay a high price to buy some of the sewing machine in good condition. It's really surprising that what was bought for more than 100 dollars can now be sold for thousands of dollars.

Old sewing machine to buy back is not used to do clothes, he represents a generation of memory and spiritual wealth, something once the past can not be retrieved, so that the old sewing machine to a certain extent can not be measured in money.