What Is Five Pounds?

Close your eyes and try to imagine the size and weight of a bag of flour. Okay, got that? Now close your eyes and try to see a five pound bag of potatoes. Now put that five pound bag on one hip like you used to do when your babies were little and fussy and screamed bloody murder when you put them down.

Now imagine a mess of fish that your husband is all excited about and tells you in a loud voice that that huge cat fish weighed five pounds.

Now close your eyes and get on the scale and open them and see that somewhere five pounds have gotten from your groceries onto the scale. Oh, come on, how did that happen?

Now go to a different grocery store and a bag of sugar costs more but is still five pounds. Beside it is a sign that says, “our sugar is a full five pounds unlike other stores that have sugar in four pound bags.” Cool; from now on I will buy things in four pound bags that surely will make a difference?