My weights are two old antique irons. The weigh about 5 pounds each. It is amazing how often I use them. I am so old that I remember my grandmother using them back in the day when sliced bread came in waxed wrappers. She used the empty bags to make her iron slide easier by running it over the bread wrappers. She also used more than 1 iron; she kept swapping them out as they grew too cool to use. ( This was out in the country when we did not have electricity). A side note: My uncle was electrocuted at age 18 because the power company stringing the power lines left a live wire on the ground. My granfdather then prohibited the company from crossing his vast property, so the folks who lived beyone him did not have electricity until several years later.