Coping With Battery Operated Gadgets

By: David Craythorne

Our house is full of kid's toys. We'll clean up the house, finding toys scattered to the farthest corner away from the children's bedrooms, where the toys are supposed to be kept.

It takes hours to gather together each stray doll, missing puzzle pieces, forlorn teddy bears and Tonka trucks and place them back in their respective places. And yet, somehow our children still insist that they need more toys, that they haven't anything to occupy them and the most interesting thing they can find to do is complain to us.

On the rare occasion when our children's bedrooms are actually housing the bulk of their toys I have taken the opportuniy to peruse their shelves, open their closets and sneak a quick look beneath their beds. There are literally toys everywhere!

However, I must say one word in their defense: a great number of these toys are not fully functional due to long-dead batteries that are hardly ever replaced after the second round. Having such a proliferation of battery operated toys is a phenomenon familiar to most families.

Even more familiar is the incidence of these toys being unusable due to their need of new batteries.

That brings me to the question, why do parents continue to buy such battery operated toys. Shouldn't we have started to clue in somewhere along the way? Why do we continue to be such suckers? Somehow we think we're getting a great deal on a particular gift. Do we ever work out the years of commitment and expense we are getting ourselves into?
Or do we know all along that we have no intention of replacing the batteries and yet carry on buying these battery operated toys, as some sort of practical joke on our children?

Whatever, the case, I know in our family we have so many toys that need replacement batteries that should we choose to replace them all in one go, it would likely cost us several hundreds of pounds.

We have tried the Pound store route. We've bought massive packages of worthless batteries, thinking we getting a real deal for a dollar. So many times, these batteries will provide a surge of power for a matter of minutes and then resort to short little spurts of energy, ending up completely useless to our battery operated toys.

In the end we've simply decided to weed out the most favourite of these toys, leaving the balance in a large box destined for an upcoming garage sale.

These toys will then be passed on to another unsuspecting parent who thinks they too are getting such a great deal. And finally we will be rid of the difficulty of all these battery operated toys that we've accumulated, making it somebody else's problem once and for all!



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