Shhh, don't tell!

Have you heard of Freecycle? It's a Yahoo mailing list that offers and asks for items people are getting rid of instead of taking them to the dump. Each participating city has it's own list. You're not supposed to advertise items for sale but sometimes people do. The other day someone advertised a garage sale and said she had an 'old fashioned' sewing machine. Hmmm, I thought, I wonder if it's a Singer Featherweight. So we emailed back and forth a few times and it turns out it's a reproduction Singer treadle machine. For $25.00. Now, I need another sewing machine like I need a hole in the head but I think I'll go out there and take a look at it anyway. I'm not telling my husband either - maybe he won't notice it! Would sewing on a treadle count as exercise?