Here's a suggestion for figuring out if your scale is accurate. It took me a surprisingly long time to come up with it myself. If you own any dumbells (you know, for weight training) just pick up a five or ten pound (or whatever) weight and put it on the scale to see how it reads. If you don't own any dumbells, there are alternatives such as a ten pound sack of sugar (oops! you probably don't have that at home either, but you get the idea). The next time I go scale shopping I'm taking my 15 pound weight with me.

Missydog