Thread: Removing batteries from your props etc.

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Curious how many of you are methodical about removing the batteries from your props before you pack your stuff away? I try to remember and know it's important to do so. It is time consuming though. Last year I bought close to two dozen of these battery LED red eyed bats from several Spirit stores for my bat cave and also picked up close to a dozen of these lit skulls on chains, all on deep clearance. Great deal but not fun removing all the itsy bitsy screws from them to get to the batteries.

Do you have a method for noting that the batteries are out and what do you do with the batteries once they are removed?

Removed all the batteries from my various props the other day, before storing everything away. As I'd only just put them in a few days before Halloween, they didn't get much use and should still be good for other purposes around the house. So I put them all into a small plastic bin that sits on shelf in our pantry closet.

i take mine out and put them in a zip lock bag/bags. then i use them for the other holiday toys, then take them out and put them back in the bag till i need them for a remote or something or the next year

I never take out batteries

don't yours ever blow up on you?

i always try to take the batteries out. they get used through out the year on remotes, toys, flashlights, and Christmas items. i have a drawer with a small screw driver set, and a battery tester, and i store the batteries there. i always say i should have stock in batteries, tacks, and safty pins.

I've forgotten about batteries in the past and had a few leak into my prop. Nothing that badly that we weren't able to carefully clean up, but a real pain.

I removed all batteries this year. One of my Spooky Town pieces died because of battery barf, so I'm not about to let that happen again.

I've whittled it down to very few batteries needed, but I take them all out. They get used up for other things throughout the year.

I also remove all batteries and place them in a ziplock bag... keeping them close to my battery tester. I test each battery before use so that I can use the half-spent ones in LED items- and lightly used batteries in more demanding mechanical things. This way, when a 9V becomes too weak for a smoke alarm, it can spend the rest of it's life lighting up the eyes of my FCG.

I also usually get rid of (ziplock baggie) those annoying little screws that come with many battery compartment covers. Nine times out of ten, those screws really aren't necessary and they're nothing but a frustrating time waster. For my one night display, I find that a bit of gaff tape is fast and easy when the plastic compartment tabs aren't enough to keep the battery cover on.