I went into Daddy's study and used his postal scale to weigh the cheese that had not already become Maureen.
If you don't have a postal scale , I use nickels.
You could use postal scales in ounces and have the kids make conversions to grams.
Foreign postal scales are in grams, and are sometimes available very inexpensively.
This appeared to be a regular procedure: with a knowing nod, the clerk took the youngster and gently placed him on the postal scale.
An inexpensive scale is a postal scale which will measure up to about 2 kg or so with a precision of 1 gm.
I had heard that they needed to weigh at least 500g to have any chance of surviving, so I put him on my wife's postal scales.
He went to the counter by the front window and weighed the package on the postal scale.
While she joined the line of customers, he made a beeline for the mechanical postal scale on the side counter.
Josh took the coin inside and weighed it on the postal scale in the kitchen.