Where can you go to find a bodyweight scale

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I want to check to see what I weigh now to see what it is vs a few years ago, and don’t have a bathroom scale (which is good, it shows I’m not obsessive about this stuff. yay me). I know I can go to a doctors office, but I don’t want to spend $60+ on a visit just to use the scale.

I suppose I could go to a gym and spend $5 on a day pass, then use the scale there.

I don’t know of any friends who have a bathroom scale I can use.

Some department stores have scales at the entrance, you pay $0.25-.50 to use it. But I don’t know which ones. Maybe a GNC or store like that will have a scale that takes quarters.

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Weirdest of places, but there’s actually one of those pay-per-weighs at a mall near here. Right by the food court in front of the movie theater.

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Can’t you just pick up a cheap bathroom scale for $20 or so?

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None of my doctors has ever charged me to weigh myself on their scales. I used to stop by the office now and then and just ask to use theirs.

Then my insurance sent me an extremely accurate scale, so now I use that.

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Yeah, but I only need to use it once. So I’d rather spend $0.50 than $20.

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I think every grocery store I’ve ever been in had a free bodyweight scale just inside the front door.

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Do places that sell them (WalMart) have display models out?

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Weird- I don’t think I’ve ever seen one at a grocery store in my life.

If you have a primary care provider, I’d think they would let you in for a one-time weighing without charging you a co-pay.

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How strange! Maybe people scales in grocery stores is a southern thing.

10

How about going to a local playground with thirty or forty bags of sugar. Load sugar sacks on one side of the seesaw, and you sit on the other. Add/subtract sugar until you know your weight!

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One hesitates to speculate why. Perhaps the store itself has a weight limit? (I always assume all those “pictures of lumbering fat people from the waist down” stock footage things from the news are shot here in the South.)

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Your doctor would seriously consider charging you to use his scales? Okay, that’s just odd.

If I was you, I’d call them and ask, maybe they’re feeling generous today.

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Your regular doctor’s office would most likely let you use their scale if you asked nicely.

The local pharmacy here has one. I don’t know if the big chain pharmacies do.

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Wii fit?

15

Carnival season is coming up . . . try the “Guess your weight” guy?

I think I’d try Walmart or similar and see if the ones in the store are usable.

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Places such as Bed Bath and Beyond often have functional display scales.

Otherwise, how well do you know your neighbors? They probably have a bathroom scale.

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Knock, knock

“Hi. I live down the street and I’d like to get weighed.”

SLAM “Fuckin lisping perverts!”

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No, I remember them when I was a kid in Michigan. They had them in grocery stores near the door and often pharmacies too. You would put a coin in a slot at the top. But that was back when the drugstore bathrooms also had dry soap in a grinder thing (you’d turn a knob and soap would come out the bottom in powder) and cotten linen towel roller things like this. They had those well into the 1970s.

Later, I remember the grocery store scale was sitched for a novelty one that gave you a fortune along with your weight.

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Aside from the gym, mall, or GNC, I believe one of the theaters that the spouse and I go to has a coin-operated scale. Bonus - you’ll get your fortune and personalized, winning lottery ticket numbers too!

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Veterinarian.
Petsmart has scaled that can weigh huge dogs.