Once I had a kid, the demand for AAs skyrockted. I already had a bunch of nice Eneloop and generic equivalent rechargeables and a fancy third party smart charger. But when a kid gets a LOT of toys, the rechargeables turn out not to be a good solution. You need to have a large quantity of batteries that get rarely used, unless you want to be swapping batteries every time they switch toys. Good luck with that, lol.
And even worse, if you have a bunch of rechargeables in toys all over the house, they can start getting trashed or given away inside those toys!
So it was like an overflow error that put me back at the beginning of the battery user progression. Buying alkalines baby!
Haha, same situation here. Whenever my partner says she is giving away a toy, my first reaction is “take my batteries (eenlops/EBLs) out!”. My older brother was always shitting on rechargeables, but they have been great for me
Once I had a kid, the demand for AAs skyrockted. I already had a bunch of nice Eneloop and generic equivalent rechargeables and a fancy third party smart charger. But when a kid gets a LOT of toys, the rechargeables turn out not to be a good solution. You need to have a large quantity of batteries that get rarely used, unless you want to be swapping batteries every time they switch toys. Good luck with that, lol.
And even worse, if you have a bunch of rechargeables in toys all over the house, they can start getting trashed or given away inside those toys!
So it was like an overflow error that put me back at the beginning of the battery user progression. Buying alkalines baby!
Haha, same situation here. Whenever my partner says she is giving away a toy, my first reaction is “take my batteries (eenlops/EBLs) out!”. My older brother was always shitting on rechargeables, but they have been great for me