I stopped buying alkaline all together (except emergencies) about a year ago. My local electronics store sells 20 packs of NiMh 2500 mAh for about 30 bucks. I bought 3 packs. I have about 10 charged and ready to use all the time. I did the math and its outrageous how much Ive saved. My son has a Leapster (educational game boy) that would go through 12 alkalines a week (uses 4 at a time). I figure batteries are about 50-75 cents each. So, in one year I would have spent in the neighborhood of $400 dollars on batteries just for his game. So, for about 15% of that, I bought enough batteries to run every device in my house for probably the next 3 years, or more! My estimated cost savings is in the neighborhood of $1100 (that will buy me lots of RC stuff!). Why the heck would anyone buy alkalines anymore?? Rechargeables have come a long way baby! By the way, I now only have to change batteries in his Leapster about once a week. The NiMh are far superior in capacity to the alkalines.

Brice D.