Bought a scale, want to weigh everything

[jdc5294]

In the military you'll occasionally be made to do a ruck march of a certain distance in a certain amount of time with a pack weighing a certain amount. I got tired of guesstimating my pack's weight and always being 10 or 15 pounds over, so I bought myself a nice little hanging scale from Amazon.

Only problem is now I have this compulsive desire to gather all my civilian hiking equipment together and WEIGH ALL THE THINGS. This is 3 years after I did my thru so I'm wondering if anyone else has travelled down this rabbit hole before.


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[Ktaadn]

Yes, I have a spreadsheet with the weight virtually everything that I own that I could conceivably take on a hike.

[Rmcpeak]

Me too. Sad.

[Kerosene]

Me three. In gory detail. Even for gear that I know I will never carry again, just to try to get a sense for how heavy it all was back in the 70's!

[Connie]

Absolutely. I was aware of the weight of my pack.

Now that I purchased a grams-ounces weight scale I find I am weighing every little thing.. and it is astonishing how fast the weight adds up for the "little stuff".

I have started an "options" list to consider the relevant value (to me) of each item.

[bigcranky]

Hanging scale? Hah . I use a kitchen scale that weighs in grams, up to 5 kg. (If you have any single item heavier than 5kg, you have a problem. ) Weigh each item and write it in a spreadsheet. There are web sites where you can enter it, too, and add everything up before a trip.

Being a "gram weenie" is an occupational hazard.

[Heliotrope]

Thinking of getting a hanging scale to see what my total pack weight is before a trip because I have a tendency to add last minute extras, mainly food.


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[squeezebox]

Thinking of getting a hanging scale to see what my total pack weight is before a trip because I have a tendency to add last minute extras, mainly food.


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Isn't that what the bathroom scale is for? Weigh me and the pack, then just me. I don't care what I weigh near as much what my pack weighs.

[squeezebox]

I bought a decent postage scale. It does grams up to a kilo. About $30. I can tell you if my blue underwear weighs more than the green ones.
Wait until you bring the scale with you to go shopping. Then you know you have an obsessive compulsive problem.

[JumpMaster Blaster]

yes, i have a spreadsheet with the weight virtually everything that i own that i could conceivably take on a hike.

yes! Yes! Me too!

[JumpMaster Blaster]

I have a kitchen gram scale that I use in conjunction with a plastic bowl for the larger items, and a fishing scale for the backpacks.

It is true, the little stuff adds up, but I find it especially interesting shaving weight for an overnighter or 2 day trip compared to a week long trek.

What combination of gear will keep me warm and dry and weigh the least for this trip?

I have a spreadsheet with everything I could possibly use on a hike, figure out what my needs are, then I find the sweet spot. Always room for improvement I say.

[Heliotrope]

Isn't that what the bathroom scale is for? Weigh me and the pack, then just me. I don't care what I weigh near as much what my pack weighs.

The wife threw out the bathroom scale.


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[squeezebox]

The wife threw out the bathroom scale.


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Sounds like it's time to use your girlfriend's scale.

May the light-ness be with you

[Heliotrope]

Sounds like it's time to use your girlfriend's scale.

May the light-ness be with you

Hysterical!


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[Spacelord]

I bought a decent postage scale. It does grams up to a kilo. About $30. I can tell you if my blue underwear weighs more than the green ones.
Wait until you bring the scale with you to go shopping. Then you know you have an obsessive compulsive problem.

Or email manufacturers to let them know their weight is off by 1.5 ounces...

My spreadsheets help me to not only know the weight, but also that when it gets over four pages its time for some of it to go.

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[Rolls Kanardly]

I still crack up when I remember the guy I saw in a store in Phoenix asking to use the gold scale to check the weight of a couple of pills to see if two 5 mg tabs weighed more than a 10 mg tab. I suppose you could lick one to make it lighter. yuk yuk
Rolls

[Rmcpeak]

Google.com/sheets


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[Pedaling Fool]

I can't say how long it has been since I had a bathroom scale...freakin' decades...

I do remember they were not that accurate; however, I wonder how accurate they are nowadays, because I've gotten into this habit of weighing myself whenever I see a scale, so that's nearly every day, since there's a scale at my gym and one at a local publix. They are freakin' accurate as hell, I can even see a difference after taking a piss.

The one at the publix is a very large scale with a huge dial, just like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjrGhi1Ard0 and I noticed one day that it registers a different weight if I took my wallet and keys out of my pocket, so I tried to weigh them individually and it actually works.

[kayak karl]

The harbor freight scales are cheap and accurate. recommended by 9 out of 10 drug dealers.

[Connie]

I have taken the full pack into the US Post Office or UPS to have weighed.

When I got a GoLite Breeze pack, the Post Mistress said, "My purse weighs more than that pack"!