Scales For You

Have you ever thought about comparing budgeting your money you are spending with budgeting your food you are consuming.  A new VISA study found that American “misplace” about $3,000 in cash every year.  It may go for gadgets such as iPods, iPhones or Blackberries or just things we want for our kids.  In order to stop this “mystery spending”, we must review our purchases regularly so we can see quickly what we’re spending, then set a budget and stick to it.  This will help eliminate impulse buying and help us start to save. 

Doesn’t this sound a lot like dieting.  We “misplace” food by eating-on-the-go, snacking, eating while reading or watching television, and eating when we’re not hungry because someone else is eating or providing food.  In order to stop this “mystery eating”, we must document what we eat so we can see quickly what we’re consuming, then set a food plan and stick to it.  This will help eliminate impulse eating and we can start to lose the excess weight.  We will need scales to measure our food portions and scales to weigh ourselves in order to make this process work.  A variety of scales in many colors, sizes and styles are available at  www.holladaypartners.com   These are quality designer scales that will match any decor at the lowest prices ever.  Check them out.  You’ll be glad you did!

Our brains can’t tell the difference between something that we imagine and something that’s real.  That’s why two different people may have the same experience and it stresses one out and calms one.  For example:  Suppose after a day’s work, two employees leaving the building find that it’s raining.  One may see the rain as needed for their garden or lawn, while the other sees it as a problem getting to the car without getting wet.  The holiday season can be very stressful if we constantly fret about all of the extra things we need to do or want to do.  One morning I was discussing at the breakfast table all the things I had to do that week at school and after school, and I just couldn’t see how I would manage it all.  My husband calmly told me a story about a man who got up one morning and was putting on his shoes.  He was thinking about how many times he would have to tie his shoes if he lived to be an old man.  He got so stressed out, he shot himself.  That is quite extreme, but stress is definitely tied into our own perception of events.

If you are trying to sell products on ebay, you may be stressing about trying to figure the shipping costs into your price.  A shipping scale can help solve that problem.  Make a picture of your product to put online, then package it for shipping.  Weigh it on your shipping scale and figure your shipping cost.  Holladay Partners has a digital electronic shipping scale at the lowest price possible and with free shipping.  Check it out.

I’ve known a few men named Troy, but I didn’t know there was a system of measurement that used a troy ounce until recently.  The troy ounce is about 10 percent more that the avoirdupois ounce (the one most of us use), and is the only ounce used in the pricing of precious metals such as gold, platinum and silver.  It is also used to measure arrow and arrowhead weights in archery and bullets and powder weights in ballistics.

Many people don’t realize that an ounce of gold is weighed in a different weighing system from and ounce of sugar or flour.  If you have a hobby or a job that calls for weighing precious metals or gunpowder, etc., you need to invest in some good troy-ounces scales.   Holladay Partners has scales that weigh in many different increments at the lowest prices.  Check us out!

Every professional lab probably has a professional lab scale.  However, the type of scale needed in each lab depends on the kind of lab activities performed in that lab.  Also, sometimes a professional lab scale is needed in a business that does not actually have a lab, but needs to perform certain activities that require a professional lab scale.

Holladay Partners offers a variety of scales suited to every need.  Some of these scales weigh in ounces, grams, troy ounces, pennyweights and grains.  Some measure liquid and volume.  Some are large capacity scales.  Most of the scales have the Tare feature that will subtract the weight of a container.  Also, many have the hold feature that allows the display to be read after the item or person has been removed from the scale.  If your home or business is in need of a professional lab scale or any variety of other scales, check out these scales and select the ones that have the features that meet your needs.

If you are interested in buying or selling scrap gold or silver, you will need to learn a whole new method of weighing or measuring.   Precious metals are usually weighed by pennyweight.  A pennyweight (dwt) is the same as 24 grains, 1/240th of a troy pound, 1/20th of a troy ounce, and approximately 0.055 ounces or approximately 1.555 grams.  

It would take a lot of time and calculating to figure how many pennyweights you had if you weighed your gold or silver on a scale that weighed only in ounces or grams.  Holladay Partners offers pennyweight scales that can save you time and trouble.  These scales weigh in ounces, grams, carats, pennyweights and troy ounces.  They have the hold feature that allows you to remove your item from the scale and then read the weight from the display, and the Tare feature to subtract the weight of a container.  All you have to do is select the method of weighing you want to use.  What could be easier!

I recently found a children’s science experiment that used a large bowl full of water sitting in a baking pan as a scale to measure the volume of different objects.  You gently lower an  apple, rock, or another item into the water in the bowl and the water will overflow into the baking pan to make room for the object.  Then remove the bowl from the pan and pour the water from the pan into a clear measuring cup.  Where the water level lines up with the scale on the measuring cup determines the volume of the object.  By refilling the bowl with water, you can then measure another object. 

I’m sure elementary students in a science class would love experimenting with this measuring device.  However, when I’m ready to measure or weigh an item, I want an up-to-date digital, electronic scale with an easy-to-read display.  Technology has improved so much over the last few years, and I want to take advantage of it when I purchase a scale for my home and/or business.  I’m sure you do, too!

Americans are on the go constantly, and we like to take our toys and conveniences with us.  When I was young, we went camping in a tent with air mattresses and cooked over an open fire in an iron skillet or pot.  Now camping means an RV with electrical hook-ups, full kitchen facilities, built in bath with shower, and television.  Everything has to be portable so we can take it with us wherever we go.

Holladay Partners has portable scales that are battery operated.  If I need a kitchen scale, I can get a battery-operated digital scale, or I can choose a spring scale.  Bathroom scales also use batteries and can be transported along with me and my other conveniences.  If I choose to take my craft and hobby materials, I can take a counting scale along to save time when counting out my beads, etc.  I can even take a set of handheld portable scales along to the restaurants to measure my food portions and continue my healthy eating habits while away from home.  “Home away from home” is a true saying now.      

Weight is a measurement of the gravitational force acting on an object.  A degree of reduction of apparent weight can occur in an elevator.  When the elevator starts to accelerate downwards, the opposing force of the elevator’s floor decreases as it accelerates away underneath one’s feet.

Wow!  I’m taking my weighing scales to an elevator and weighing on my way down!  Or, maybe I’ll go to the moon on the next space mission and weigh while I’m there.  No, once again, I’m just fooling myself.  If I want to weigh less, I have to eat less and exercise more.  That sounds simple, but old habits die hard. 

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Did you know that the water in a little cloud has been estimated to weigh about 550 tons.  If an elephant weighs six tons, the water inside a typical cumulous cloud would weigh as much as about 100 elephants.  Of course, the water is in tiny little particles not nearly as large as an elephant.  The water in one hurricane could weigh as much as 40,000,000 elephants.  Now that’s a lot of weight!

Many different items may need to be weighed in your homes and/or businesses.  A weigh scale should be purchased according to your weighing needs.  A wide variety of scales with many different features are available in colors that will match any decor.  You probably won’t be weighing elephants or water in clouds, but whatever your weighing needs are, a weigh scale is available.  Evaluate your weighing needs, then look for a weigh scale that will solve your problem accurately and efficiently.  

There are many different kinds of scales to meet varied needs in the workplace and at home.  Most people, when thinking about scales for the home, are looking for bathroom or kitchen scales.  However, some homeowners have hobbies that can benefit from a good set of counting scales.  Many workplaces and some homes need shipping scales.  Restaurants and labs need precision scales to insure accuracy and repeatability.

 When purchasing scales for the home or workplace, evaluate your needs first.  Then look for scales that have the features that will benefit most in your specific endeavor.  Of course, cost is important,  but saving money by purchasing scales without the features needed will cost more in the long run.  My husband says, “If you buy something you don’t like, you won’t get to where you like it.”   I think we can paraphrase and say, “If you buy scales that don’t meet your needs, they won’t get to where they will.”