Batteries NOT Included!

Everything in our house seems to run out of batteries at the same time. Mostly, the kids get a bunch of toys for their birthday, we put batteries in them and about a year later they all die. By the way, one of the most brilliant ideas is to put batteries with the toys you buy for birthdays. I don't actually do this, since I barely by them for our toys, but when people do this for my kids I am extremely grateful. It saves a headache. You don't have to deal with assembling the toy and then your kid throwing a fit because it doesn't do anything because of lack of batteries.

Now there are a couple of things about batteries:
1. They are very expensive
2. It is kinda pleasant when the annoying toys run out of batteries because then I don't have to listen to them
3. It isn't pleasant when the kids come to you and keep telling you their toy is broken and to fix it. When the response is always, "It's outta batteries," the kids tend to lose their patience.
4. If you buy the dollar store ones, they run out way earlier and aren't worth the money. By the time you buy 15 little packets it ends up being way more money than at Costco.
5. I started stealing and/or "borrowing" (with no intent on returning) batteries from my parents. They buy in bulk from Costco so I figure they won't miss a couple at a time. I started only replacing important things first, like the TV remote with the stolen batteries.

Anyway, I finally broke down and bought a bulk pack of batteries from Costco and was excited to get home and replace all the old toys that ran out of batteries.

WHAT WAS I THINKING!!!!??????

My house is so noisy now. We got the piano going, the dolls are chatty, the cars that vroom are vrooming and anything that makes noise is going off. Maybe I should have kept with stealing batteries and replacing one thing at a time.