Change your clocks - change your bateries

Thanks for the reminder. That's a very good idea on changing the batteries. The cost of batteries is low when you compare it to the cost of not having the protection when you need it.

I agree. It is a very good thing to get on a yearly schedule to change batteries in smoke alarms. Even if they don't quite need it yet. Once a year is a small price to pay.

@kch50428,

Thanks, will do the batteries too.

Do you have a carbon monoxide detector? How old are your smoke detectors?

If you don't have at least one carbon monoxide detector, you can get combo smoke/CO detectors for a little more than the price of a smoke detector alone.

And if your detectors are old, like the ones that use weird batteries, replace them! They're probably more than 10 years old!

With others, the life of smoke detectors is around 10 years. After that, the ionization source that makes it work may no longer be useful -- check the labels on the device to be sure.

Very cheap insurance -- please.

My alarms are the wired kind that all go off together. I have 12; 6 are CO/smoke, 6 are smoke only with the zones overlapping. The batteries are just for backup when the power is out. I use the 9V lithium 10 year batteries which easily last 6 or more years in a detector. So I don't replace all the batteries every year ... just the 2 or 3 oldest ones.

A good reminder about the batteries. Here in Arizona we don't need to change our clocks as there is no Daylight Savings Time here.

Thanks for the reminder and great advice

Thanks for the reminder

I find it confusing when visiting AZ for sightseeing tours, on and off the Navajo lands.

I guess you just have to go to bed when you get tired!

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/6585

...especially page 2 of above

Eliminate daylight savings time.

I'd be okay with that, although I admit that I do look forward to the change in March (when I'm thoroughly fed up with winter).

My clock's hour hand has fallen and can't get up! What should I do?

I like AZ policy, battery change - yes; time change: no.

why don't you guys like the extra daylight?

Remember Indiana. Their state is split between Eastern and Central.
Then some counties had daylight time and others did not. Then in 2006 they stopped that nonsense.

There is nothing I do in that extra hour of daylight that I can't do when its a little darker, and my sleep patterns are screwed up for a week or two after each change. It's kind of like cutting a foot off one end of a blanket and sewing it on the other end thinking you are going to end up with a longer blanket.

That's a lesson the politicians in this country need to learn. They seem to think by spending more the tax base will automatically increase to support it.

The only things I have to change are my microwave and stove. Everything else changes automatically.

I moved my clocks back yesterday morning. I hate Standard Time!

Second this

If, like us, you've got a designated place for keeping spare batteries, this is also a good time to root through the collection and weed out ones that:

1) Have reached their expiration date, or
2) Are proprietary to devices you no longer use.

No sense risking leaky batteries that make a mess and damage good ones (DAMHIKT ), and the rechargeable ones can often be recycled.

I'm near Chicago and have a friend who lives near Indianapolis. I'd ask him why IN had such a confusing policy for official time in the state. He told me the politicians were too stupid to understand it. I told him that Indiana was not unique.

We live in Arizona - we don't change our clocks. We love it.

Uggg. I would rather stay on DST year round.

Great advice, thanks. My smoke detectors are built into the house, and time flies so it might be a chore to change all 8 smoke detectors...

thanks for the reminder

Don't forget to change those batteries that operate your electronic safes as well!!

Thanks for the reminder!

CC

...maybe it's time to consider going digital ?

just an idea....(Big smile)

Ron

i like driving home in the daylight. thats my main reason for liking it.