Q: Do you know off-hand what some good house-hold items or creations can be used as weights and what weight they are?

A: As far as household stuff, a gallon of water or milk weighs about 8 pounds. You can find containers that are 1.5 or 2 gallons, so if you fill them with water they'll give you 12 and 16 pound weights, respectively. But your best weighttraining equipment for home is your own body! Pushups, pullups, squats, lunges, jumping jacks, extensions of all sorts, crunches, etc. all use your bodyweight as resistance are are likely to give you much more effective exercises than any other household stuff. You can also always look for used dumbbells or barbells at yard sales -- they're quite common there and are dirt cheap :)