One very important reminder to help our environment...
Don't throw used batteries in the trash! They need to go to the toxic waste dump. We didn't think we used that many batteries; then, about twenty years ago, when we started NOT throwing them in the trash, we discovered just how many we do use. Clocks, flashlights, Walkman, etc., - they add up to between 50 and 60 used batteries in a year. Now I collect them in a small box in the garage and every year around my birthday I take them to the toxic waste dump, along with unused cans of paint, dead electronic stuff, past date prescriptions and old OTC medicines. It is now a month past my birthday so I need to make a trip! The picture above is a year's worth - 51 AA batteries, 3 AAA batteries and one A23 (what was that from??). Just think if three million people used just this number of batteries what a mountain of leaking lead and other nasty stuff would go into the earth. Be kind to yourself, be kind to Earth.
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