Let's say you are out shopping and you find something really amazing and you don't have a measuring tape with you (this tip is clearly not applicable to me since I would never not have a measuring tape in my purse at all times!). That's cool, you can use some other ideas to measure:
1. Your foot. If you aren't trying to be exact, I'll sometimes count it out to roughly, you guessed it, a foot. But for exact purposes, according to Martha, "a man's size 10 1/2 shoe is about a foot long. A woman's size 8 is about 10 inches. Using the length of your shoe, you can measure a rug by traversing it heel to toe. For longer distances, count strides (to determine the length of your stride, walk through a puddle so you'll make footprints, and measure the distance between them)."
2. A dollar bill. (This was the one my husband knew about and actually used it against me in an argument about the length of my hair that looks like sh*t because he insists he prefers it long.) Anywho, a dollar bill is 6 inches long and 2 and a half inches in height.
3. A credit card. The typical plastic in your wallet is 2 by 3 1/2 inches. Yeah, I probably wouldn't remember that.
4. A quarter. Again, blame Martha if this doesn't work. "It's about an inch in diameter, and its edge, rolled in a straight line, measures 3 inches (start and end with Washington's profile facing the same direction)."
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