Challenged

I will be real. I am measurementally challenged. I have a hard time with measurement. When someone asked me the square footage of our house I really had no idea. 23? 179? 750? I know it's bigger than a breadbox!(Although with so many kids it seems just a tad bigger than a breadbox!) I am not sure about money either. 25K? I think that is $25,000. Then why not say $25,000? I think that is the only way to be fair to myself and others like me. I am a concrete, sequential person, as my husband knows and when we are in mixed company and someone starts talking numbers(how big the fish was that got away, how many square feet their house is, anything metric) I smile, nod and ask appropriate questions. Pat, bless his heart will always explain what the numbers mean to me on the way home.