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To want accurate bathroom scales without an app?

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flowerrrrpoweerr · 08/03/2025 16:21

My wonderful toddler lugged my circ. 2007 Salter digital scales into the empty bath and it is now telling me I am 6 stone (I am not).

Been tearing my hair out trying to find bathroom scales which had all the same features:

  • Digital.
  • reliably accurate
  • Can switch between Kg/stone/lbs (preferably with a switch rather than a button because reading reviews online this button often fails)
  • Preferably weight to 0.2lbs (I use happy scale to log my weight and I'll take any portion of a lb off I can)
  • no sodding app or body fat bs.

Ideally not glass because I'm paranoid about slipping and yes if toddler finds them again who knows what damage she could do.

Why is it so hard?
Am I just a complete outlier wanting these things?

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steff13 · 08/03/2025 16:23

I'm in the US, but Amazon has quite a few. My scale has an app, but it works without the app. Just don't download it?

RechargeableGnu · 08/03/2025 16:37

I want reliable ones too but analogue!

flowerrrrpoweerr · 08/03/2025 19:13

steff13 · 08/03/2025 16:23

I'm in the US, but Amazon has quite a few. My scale has an app, but it works without the app. Just don't download it?

Yes Amazon has a zillion cheap shite scales that won't be accurate. It's virtually impossible to wade through all the fake reviews.
Google too is rubbish these days, will just display the same products again and again based on whoever has paid the most to Google.
I was hoping for personal recommendations if anyone had some scales that do the job and have the 'features' that my almost 20 year old scales had with no hassle.

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flowerrrrpoweerr · 08/03/2025 19:15

RechargeableGnu · 08/03/2025 16:37

I want reliable ones too but analogue!

I'd be tempted by those too but I have to pick up and hide the scales every time because DD will unwittingly destroy them too and moving them around frequently makes them inaccurate.

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Twilightstarbright · 08/03/2025 19:30

I got some like what you want in Argos.

flowerrrrpoweerr · 09/03/2025 09:52

Twilightstarbright · 08/03/2025 19:30

I got some like what you want in Argos.

Great! Do you know what they are called or got a link because I've looked at Argos and I couldn't see any?

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Twilightstarbright · 09/03/2025 09:54

@flowerrrrpoweerr sorry it was years ago. They have a picture of the New York skyline on them though

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