Moving around your digital scale?

My scale gets moved weekly because it stays in the middle of the living room so when my apartment gets cleaned, it does get moved and then later put back. It seems to handle it well. It usually is a few pounds off when I first step on it, but then afterwards it will read the same reading as I had before it was moved. So since it doesn't cause any issues for me, I'm fine with it. But it does mess with some scales.

I travel about 3 weeks a month and have considered taking mine with me, but I understood that it's not good to move digital scales. I wish there was one that weighed consistently and was lightweight and super cheap

I didn't know that scales aren't supposed to be moved, but mine hasn't budged more than an inch from its little corner in my kitchen, so I guess that's good.

I started near the top of my scale's range and just breathing would make it float. I got one of those big balance scales you used to find in Dr office off ebay and just love it. So precise and I know if I gained or lost if I have to slide the weights up or down.

I move my digital scale daily, from cabinet to floor and back to cabinet, because I do not have the bathroom floor space to dedicate to it. I do place it in the same spot on that hard surface floor to weigh, though. More out of woo woo voodoo superstition than any actual, factual reason.

It's also a travel scale (marketed as such), but are there really vastly different technologies used to make scales depending on how it's marketed? I would be surprised if that were true. It has been remarkably consistent regardless of where I weigh - home, hotel room, shower room of a campground, etc.

When my scale "goes weird", I replace the battery and so far that has fixed the problem. I already automatically periodically recalibrate as all scales (and dial thermometers) I've ever worked with or owned required it. Almost five years now since purchased and going strong; the longest I've had a cheap scale do its job without problems that necessitated buying a new one.

I store mine in the closet and pull it out once a week for weigh-ins, putting it as close as I can to the same spot on the (wooden) floor each time. I tap it to get a zero reading before using it, because that's what the direction say to do, regardless of whether you're moving it or not.

After six years of logging CICO and weight, I am seldom surprised by what I see when I step on the scale. It usually has moved in the direction I would expect based on my CICO for the previous week, and if the week wasn't an inflection point (change in among states of deficit/maintenance/surplus), the change in my scale reading is usually spot-on or within a half pound of what my logging would have me expect. (Weigh-ins after changing among deficit/maintenance/surplus are harder to predict because water weight changes have a greater effect than the body mass changes.)

I think suggestions to change the battery are definitely worth considering.

I line mine up with my floor tiles so it is in the exact same spot every time I weigh. I move it weekly to clean under, but that's it.

I dont have the floor space to keep my scale out . I have experienced it going really low, like my goalweivbt low and in my heart I was leaping for joy thinking it was a miracle. But I weighed again and it was accurate.

I have to move mine, the only good place for it to sit out is in my bathrooom. However, the bathroom has slate tiles and isn't an even enough surface to weigh on, so I move it into the wood floored hallway and then put it back.

Mine gets moved about a foot each day because there isn't an out of the way place I can store it and use it. I make an effort to pull it out the same spot to actually use it. Like you said, I just step on it and let it zero before using it.

both my scales get moved every day. My body weight scale lives under my shoe bookshelf (as in bookshelf turned into shoe cupboard) and I have to move it to the bathroom - to a precise location on the wonky bathroom floor - I have counted out exactly which tiles it has to be on so that it's stable.

I have to put it down, step on it, it will give me a massive number. Then I get off, wait until it goes black again, tap it to wake it up, then step on it again, and I will generally have lost a couple of kilos in that 2 minutes. I can step on it again a billion times and it will continue to give me that same reading. So I take it as being OK.

My food scale gets moved too. It lives in a little gap between the toaster and a bowl thing full of crap. I have to pull it out onto the bench in order to be able to place my food on it. It seems to not mind being moved and the only thing that sometimes happens is it will decide to change to lbs instead of grams, which means I have to keep changing it back to grams before I weigh. But that's it. No crazy weight fluctuations like my body weight scales.

At my mum's house, her non-digital scale does not get moved at all - it lives in a corner in the bathroom and it also appears to be calibrated correctly (I always check before I step on it). It also is a pleasure to weigh on because it always tells me i'm about 2kg lighter at her place than I am at my place.

I'd say y'all are ocd about that scale placement but I can move my scale like 3 inches on my kitchen floor and it'll register a half pound more.