http://www.pfadvice.com/2006/04/10/batteries-daily-financial-tip/ Bridging the gap between saving money and investing Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:52:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.pfadvice.com/2006/04/10/batteries-daily-financial-tip/#comment-1448 Gloria Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:36:34 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/?p=544#comment-1448 I learned this the hard way months ago. Didn't know a thing about batteries and their differences. Working on buying a recharable set. I learned this the hard way months ago. Didn’t know a thing about batteries and their differences. Working on buying a recharable set.

]]> http://www.pfadvice.com/2006/04/10/batteries-daily-financial-tip/#comment-1323 Nick Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:55:20 +0000 http://www.pfadvice.com/?p=544#comment-1323 There's a handful of electronic devices we use on a regular basis that completely drain their batteries in 8-12 hours: a digitial voice recorder my wife uses in class, a Nintendo DS, and a digital camera. Alkaline batteries just for these would probably run us hundreds of dollars a year! My rule of thumb is that any device that produces sound or video (or both!) and doesn't have a plug gets NiMH rechargeable batteries. There’s a handful of electronic devices we use on a regular basis that completely drain their batteries in 8-12 hours: a digitial voice recorder my wife uses in class, a Nintendo DS, and a digital camera. Alkaline batteries just for these would probably run us hundreds of dollars a year! My rule of thumb is that any device that produces sound or video (or both!) and doesn’t have a plug gets NiMH rechargeable batteries.

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