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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
(16,038 posts)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
(5,948 posts)And of course Dirksen's legendary " a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon your talking about real money" quote
frazzled
(18,402 posts)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
(5,948 posts)And remember to always weigh those ingredients!!
interesting about the granulation variation