Would You Consider Not Having A Set Of Scales In The House?

[Bathsheba]

Regarding needing them for weighing children for their medicine: I guess my children are of average weight so i just use the age guidelines on the box. I also often weigh them when we go to the doctors so i usually have a rough idea. DH also weighs himself at the doctors. At our GPs there is always a set of scales in the room.

ETA: Wow! I'm surprised that so many don't have scales! I thought i was an unsual... so many of my friends and family own them.

[Junglemum]

We don't have scales in the house. When we moved recently i made a decision to throw them out. I don't want my two girls growing up thinking that their weight is important in a negative way.
I just go by the kids last weight at the MCHN/Dr or whatever. I did weigh DD1 on the cattle scales last week, just for fun

[Nelle]

We don't have scales. I am thinking about getting some to be honest - I think I need to SEE that I do not have some 'immune to weight gain when I sit on my posterior and bake/eat delicious food all the time' super power...I'm currently telling myself it's winter fat? Like I'm a bear or something?

I don't think I'd obsess about my weight. But I do think that to see my weight creeping up bit by bit might help me to go 'ooer'. I'm not particularly worried about body issues, anyone who knows me will know my ego/self-esteem is fairly resilient.

[Phteven]

I have a pair somewhere but I'm not sure where. We only get them out if we're concerned about the weight of our luggage.
I don't worry about having an exact weight for panadol - I just use the weight they were last time I weighed them.

[Oorki Galoorki]

the only set of scales i own are kitchen ones and you can tell i do to much baking... hehehe

DH thinks he wants a set but im not convinced they are a helpful thing at all!

[Muffy]

I do not own any.
But my mum and my sister do.. so thats the first thing i do when i get to their house.
BUT having said that there is an 600g difference between both the scales...

[LimeSlice]

We only get them out if we're concerned about the weight of our luggage.

That is the only reason we have them also!
Never used them really...now I am trying to lose some weight I have used them more frquently, but only if I remember, so only once every couple of weeks...which I suppose is not very handy anyhow.

[Astrid]

No scales at the moment other than the Wii Fit. DH does not like them, but I think they have their place. I wish I had them during the past year as the weight I lost crept back on. I did have a cheapo pair a couple of years ago and I kept them in the cupboard, so I had to actively think about weighing, not just weight because they are there.

Years ago DH and I had to make regular trips to the airport, so everytime we went we would weigh ourselves. When I got home I would take my measurements and write them on the back. We were losing weight at the time and it was a great way to keep track of it.

[meow]

We only get them out if we're concerned about the weight of our luggage.

This is the only reason I bought scales. It's too hard trying to pack close to 20kgs to just guess it- I didn't want to be stuck taking things out at the airport. I lived for years without any and now they sit in the bathroom cupboard at the back and rarely see the light of day.

[Mother Goose]

Nope, don't have them at home. But I have them at work. Very easy access - right next to my locker! I weigh myself sporadically there. For DD, I also calculate all her meds based on her weight but can weigh her at numerous locations we frequent so I always have a pretty good idea of her weight at any given time.

[Melbournemumma]

We don't have them at home and sometimes that's a good thing and other times it's not I used to find when I was on weight watchers and i had to go and be weighed every week it kept me more accountable! But I used to go same time every week and it was always a night time class soooo, when I was going to be heaviest anyways

On the whole I don't particularly like having them at home, I know if i've put on weight!

[Raupe]

I didn't have any scales in my house for about 4 years... and I put on about 40kgs !
So now they're back in *grrrrr*. I have a love/hate relationship with them. I'm scared to way myself (I do that about once a month). But everytime I do and I have lost weight, it REALLY motivates me and gives me a health boost. So I guess it kinda works for me. But I totally agree that daily way-ins are just ridiculous. It varies wayyyyy too much! And to be honest, when you (ehmm..I..) are talking about loosing 40kgs, a couple of grams water retention is not relevant. (Maybe that's why I like 'oldfashioned' sales , they are not so accurate they show full kg and not g) So I guess what I'm trying to say is that a little variation in weight doesn't bother me, as long as the overall trend is downwards... Does that make sense? When you are as big as me, clothes have to be looser anyway (otherwise I look like a fat german sausage ), therefore I can't usually tell if I put on 5kgs or not...

Good thread though!

[onthefly]

I have some. But they don't work right. They give different weights depending what surface you put them on and always weigh light anyway.
DS likes playing with them, but they're not much good for anything else.

[*EJ*]

I don't have any at all. If anything i would be one to go by the way my clothes fit me. I had a hand me down set of scales but i know they were never accurate, i think they were a little on the light side.

[deletedit]

Where do you people go that you can weigh kids? Mine are too big for the parcel scales at the post office and one gets "booooooooooored" at the doc and the other freaks out at being locked in so I try not to take them to the doc if at all possible.

Mind you, DD#1 has been almost 30kg for the last few years but has grown at least 6 inches taller ...

[Indadhanu]

We don't! Shel and I have never had a set of scales in the whole time we lived together. My history of anorexia was why we never had them when we first met. We have just never bought any. I think think they are necessary.

We do have a Wii Fit thing, but I am lazy and haven't been on it since January. I haven't weighed myself since then LOL!

We too go on how our clothes are fitting. For paracetamol, we use Dymadon, and the highest dose they have is for a weight that she was about 6 months ago. So I just look up the dose for weight, and do a bit less than that.

[Jellyfish]

Never owned scales here!

[MantaRay]

Without scales, how would you know whether your suitcase is overweight or not?

Plus it can be helpful to weigh the kids every now and then. But otherwise, I agree with you. I don't know when I last weighed myself.