@ragingredd I have one of these too, but the back doesn’t close if I fill it with AA batteries so I have to leave the edges empty. I hope the design has been improved since I bought mine, from QVC.
@ragingredd
We have a drawer in our home office, where we store batteries vertically in old prescription bottles [the amber ones].
We cleared out a bunch of old mostly weak or dead batteries from my I-L’s refrigerator after they died in '23.
Ours are maintained in a room temperature environment.
Either the batteries will present a demand for collective bargaining or they won’t. It is neither incumbent upon me to unionize them nor even within the spirit of industrial organization.
Original package, but I got one of the display boxes at Sam’s that has the slots in it, so the packages fit perfectly.
All together, in order, safe in package. Done
I bought some batteries, but they weren’t included. So, I had to go back and buy them again.
@Pavlov Thanks Mitch!
@Pavlov
Ba-dump-bump!
I have this bad boy lol
@ragingredd I have one of these too, but the back doesn’t close if I fill it with AA batteries so I have to leave the edges empty. I hope the design has been improved since I bought mine, from QVC.
@ragingredd same!
@ragingredd I’ve got something similar but I wish it was bigger lol.
@ragingredd
We have a drawer in our home office, where we store batteries vertically in old prescription bottles [the amber ones].
We cleared out a bunch of old mostly weak or dead batteries from my I-L’s refrigerator after they died in '23.
Ours are maintained in a room temperature environment.
@ragingredd I have one of these things too!
@heartny probably I’m got mine from bed bath and beyond few years ago. No issue with closing it
You don’t.
I do.
/image refrigerator
You don’t organize my batteries and I have no interest in organizing yours
Either the batteries will present a demand for collective bargaining or they won’t. It is neither incumbent upon me to unionize them nor even within the spirit of industrial organization.
@werehatrack @ybmuG i just brought in a union activist to organize mine.
But then they went out on strike.
@phendrick @werehatrack Yeah, once those batteries get organized, they get all amped up and nobody knows watt they really want.
NO mention of the shelf life or use by date
@troy Any data available?
@dahobbs9 January 2026
They stay in the original carton in the frig until I need one, then the rest wonder what happened to their sibling.
@hchavers hehehe…
Original package, but I got one of the display boxes at Sam’s that has the slots in it, so the packages fit perfectly.
All together, in order, safe in package. Done
I throw them in the back of my junk drawer in the kitchen.
/showme a nursing home for nearly dead batteries
/showme battery heaven versus computer heaven
i leave it up to the batteries. the 9 volts usually zap the others into submission.
I used to just keep some in a drawer… then I bought a battery organizer and rechargeable batteries… but they still just end up wherever
@mbersiam I spend a ridiculous amount of time sorting and testing old batteries. Makes no sense at all. I guess it’s a weird distraction/obsession.
One good thing is that here my recycle pickup will take a plastic bag with old batteries each week if you set it out next to the recycling bin.
We have a drawer and I open the packages and just dump them all in. 9 volt, AAA, AA, C, D…
I love a challenge.
/image ice planet Hoth
/image 1940 B battery for tube radio
@pmarin And those were carbon-zinc, with perhaps 10% of the energy density of modern alkalines.