This category is a cross national compendium of common everyday measures devoted to everyday life. The main article Customary measurement systems is a celebration of these cultural relics still used to measure soaps, and cook a meal.

This category is not a place for the modern metric system based units, but for measures like the apothecary system, British customary system of measurement, the Imperial system, and United States customary units in Anglo-western culture and their ancestors.

These articles may be referenced for clarification and classification:

• Weights and measures
• History of measurement
• Systems of measurement
• English unit
• Imperial unit