If a dollar were a grain of sugar game

[Blues Heron]

If a dollar were a grain of sugar
A teaspoonful would be $20,000
A million dollars would be a cup of sugar
5 billion would be a one ton pile
food for thought...

(1 tsp sugar = 20,000 grains = 4 grams)

(Just trying one of those visualization exercises, please post other examples!)

[pipoman]

1. I heard Johnny Carson say once

That if his wife liked to spend $1,000 per day, a million dollars would last her a little less than 3 years, a billion would last around 2,700 years.

[Blues Heron]

3. Good one

And of course Dirksen's legendary " a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon your talking about real money" quote

[frazzled]

2. Speaking of which

I have noticed lately that the regular sugar we buy is much finer grained than it used to be. In fact, I was baking something the other week, and accused my husband of having filled the sugar canister with my "superfine" sugar, which I save for making caiphirinias or merengues or other instances where you need the sugar to dissolve more quickly.

Indeed, a new five-pound bag of sugar I opened was very fine grained. So your measurement may be a bit off by recent standards!

Still, it is sobering to the max to think of the difference between a teaspoon or a ton. I'd love to have just a teaspoon full of extra money, but now it seems so small.

[Blues Heron]

4. Gives new meaning to the old "hi, could I borow a cup of sugar please" !

And remember to always weigh those ingredients!!

interesting about the granulation variation