Watch Batteries
What happens when you need watch batteries. This happened to me recently. It all started out so simply.
Watch batteries
My wife brought me one of her watches and tasked me with getting it a new battery. I naively said “Sure, a piece of cake”. I’ll take it apart and get the number off the battery and get one at the local big box store. If only I had stopped there I would be in the clear. But of course, I didn’t stop there I had to get a price. That was my undoing. Once I found out what that single battery cost I had to look for a better price. Of course, I was being pushed by my wallet. That’s when I found out that I could get a hundred of them for less than the price of one.
The Dilemma
Now I’m faced with a dilemma of waste. I can buy a hundred of them and use just one and throw away ninety-nine of them or pay twice as much for a single battery. Or I could hang on to them and have them all be dead or near death when the next watch needs a battery. What to do? Of course, my wallet is weighing in heavily. I made my decision goaded on by my wallet. I bought a hundred of them.
Many numbers for the same watch batteries
Did you know that many batteries have multiple numbers for the same size battery? In my circumstance, the AG4 battery in my wife’s watch is also the SR626W, the Bulova 619, and the Timex MA battery. Do you need a cross reference for your battery type?
Now when you buy a hundred of them, of course, they don’t exist in the Northern Continent. They exist an ocean away and it takes time for them to get here. So I bought into the “having to wait” for them to arrive. Then when they arrived installing the battery in the watch. I thought I would refit all my wife’s watches with new batteries. So I’m down to ninety-five batteries left.
I thought about my wife’s friends and I asked her if her friends needed new watch batteries. So one of her friends gave her a baggy of watches and now I’m down to ninety-two batteries. “Do you have any other friends that need watch batteries?” I heard myself say. No takers so far. Now it’s on to neighbors and friends. Ninety-two and counting down.
