How many rechargeable pieces of techie crap do you recharge and how often? Do you keep most of them at one “charging station,” or are they scattered throughout the house? Do you keep most/all of them topped off, or do you let some slide into deadness?
On my bedside table I have cords to recharge my phone and my kindlefire.
In my home office, I have cords plugged in for recharging my Palm Pilot (yes, I still use one, the Palm T|X), my camera, and my iPod (yes, I still use an iPod). I have a cord for recharging my bluetooth earpiece, but I’ve stopped using it since I got hearing aids, as there’s only so much room on your ears to hang stuff, especially when I already wear glasses.
I keep my laptop plugged in while I’m using it and virtually never operate on battery power alone.
In the bathroom I have my electric toothbrush (Sonicare) stored on its charger. I also have a Clarisonic facial thingie, but I don’t keep it on the charger. I only charge it when it gives signs of dying. I have a shaver that I only charge right before I plan to use it.
I have a phone charger plugged into the car at all times.*
*One time I broke down on an isolated highway late at night in the rain. I had two cell phones with me. Both with dead batteries and me with no phone charger. So I’m a little bit obsessive about always having my phone charged or the means to charge it.
iPod, iPad, iPhone, MacBook, toothbrush, razor, flashlights, soldering iron, camera.
And- every other battery-powered device in the house, since I use rechargeable AAA and AA batteries in all of them (Eneloops - greatest money-saving battery evar!).
I keep most everything on charge all the time, except for my iPod, which lives in my gym bag, and only gets recharged when it’s dead.
Two iPhones. Mine gets heavily used, and it gets recharged every night. My wife uses hers less often, and she probably only has to recharge it every few nights.
My iPad. Recharging is variable; if I’m using it heavily (such as at a gaming convention – I keep all of my character sheets and gaming books on it), it gets recharged nightly. Otherwise, it gets recharged every few days (I usually let it run down, or close to it, unless I know I’ll be using it a lot in the near future).
My Garmin Forerunner (GPS wristwatch), which I use for tracking my runs. Recharged every week or so; I’d rather keep it topped off than risk having it die in mid-run.
My electric razor and electric toothbrush. Both get used until they run down, and then recharged; both wind up lasting about 2 weeks between charges.
My wife has two digital cameras; those batteries get recharged sporadically, usually before we go on a trip.
Phone, Nexus 7 and laptop; every day.
Sonicare toothbrush, headphones for movies, ipod touch, remote for laptop, wireless mouse and camera; as needed (once/twice a month).
2 iPhones,
2 juice boxes for the iPhones
1 normal (dumb) cell phone
About 28 rechargeable NiMH batteries, about evenly split between AA and AAA
A couple of Bluetooth stereo earphones
1 wireless PS3 controller
I have a few iPhone charging docks scattered around the house. One also has a set of speakers. I keep the AA and AAA batteries either charging or topped off when not using them. The juice boxes and Bluetooth headset are charged by USB from the computer. I also have a 12 volt to 5 volt DC converter for the iPhone which runs it off the car battery.
My cellphone gets charged at night, sitting next to the bed where it does double duty as an alarm clock.
My ecig batteries (4 of them as of today) take turns as needed on a single charger that’s plugged into the USB of my laptop.
My Bluetooth has a charger…somewhere… I haven’t used it in a while, since the speaker on my Samsung Focus isn’t half bad.
“My” Kindle (which has become mostly my daughter’s Kindle) gets charged as it needs it, which isn’t often as it’s the first generation “electronic paper” Kindle.
I was going to say ‘not much’ until I thought about it a bit more.
The laptop is permanently plugged into the power socket. I have a MacBook Air which I charge periodically. iPad x 2 (regular and mini) get recharged if they’ve run down or if I need them for any length of time. My iPhone sits on the bedside table and gets recharged each night.
Two cameras (a p & s and a dSLR) have two batteries each which get recharged when they run down.
And a Kindle which I tend to forget about until I notice it’s completely flat and then I recharge it.
The torch I use at work is solar powered, so it gets recharged on the window sill.
Cell phone
Tablet
Garmin Forerunner
MP3 player(s)
Camera(s) SLR bodies & two PHD (push here, dummy) pocket camera, including one water/shock/drop/dust proof one for on-the-go shooting
GoPro
bike light(s)
Scattered charging station locations depending upon what it is & where it lives. Phone - most days, Tablet, Garmin & MP3 as needed (these days 1x or 2x/week)
Camera equipment - before intended use, if necessary.
Car has a phone charger, a USB charger, & an inverter for everything else.
2 cell phones
1 home phone
1 portable DVD player
1 digital camera
3 toothbrushes
1 shock collar for the dog (not used in months)
1 4-wheeler for the toddler
A stash of about 16 rechargebale AAs for kids toys and remotes
So ten separtate devices, plus all the AAs. Chargers all over the place.