How much is a trillion?

In the US a trillion is 1 followed by 12 zeros, or a million millions. The estimate for the Iraq war is about 3 trillion. The number of household in the US is around 100 million. So whenever we spend a trillion dollars that is about $10,000 per household. So for Iraq, we could have sent one kid to college per household, or provided five years of daycare, or a few thousand bottles of vodka.