Recharging Regular Alkaline Batteries

When my kids got old enough to have a lot of toys that required batteries (we managed to avoid too many battery-powered baby toys), I bought a battery charger and rechargeable batteries of all sizes. And apart from a few more lost batteries than I'd expected (who knew a three-year-old would be so determined to remove up to four screws just to remove a battery cover and lose the batteries???), it's worked brilliantly.

But if I hadn't already purchased a ridiculous number of rechargeable batteries, I think I'd just have to this Alkaline Battery Charger from BatteryXTender. For $40 for the charger, you can reduce the cost of buying batteries by well over 50%.

If you go through batteries the way we do, that's some serious saving.