Friday, June 1, 2012

Go Green with Glad's One Bag Challenge {Glad One Bag Party Kit Review & Giveaway}

Glad logo
Now that the warm weather has arrived and school is nearly out, I look forward to the spring and summer parties that await our family and friends. From kids' birthdays to pool/sprinkler parties to outdoor barbeques to Father's Day and holiday-themed gatherings, we always enjoy getting together with those people that make a difference in our lives.

The part that I don't particularly enjoy? The cleanup, of course.

While the preparation (including planning, cooking and cleaning) can sometimes end up stressful, it still provides the results necessary for a great party. But when the last guest has left and I look around at the amount of garbage that has to be bagged up and sent to the landfill, it can leave me feeling a little guilty that the environment has to pay the price for the convenience of using paper plates and plastic utensils.

Fortunately, the Glad Products Company has taken the lead in providing products that offer effective yet responsible ways to clean up after a party. In fact, they have created Glad's One Bag Challenge to see if you can host a gathering and have it result in only a single bag of trash to contain all of the party remnants.

Glad One Bag Challenge

Only one bag for plates, crumbs, party favors, napkins and more while the rest is all diverted to compost and recycling? Although this hasn't occurred in the past for us, I was looking forward to seeing how smart planning and a Glad One Bag Party Kit could make it happen!

Glad One Bag Party Kit

Glad is committed to helping consumers help the planet, with the idea being that small changes can add up to a big difference in creating a better environment for generations to come. The key is simple: Waste Less.

With its newest innovations (e.g. compostable kitchen bags, recycling bags, and trash bags that use less plastic while providing greater strength than ever before), Glad has helped save over 6.5 million pounds of plastic per year, the equivalent of keeping more than 140 million extra trash bags out of landfills each year.

Even better, Glad has become more responsible in the way that they manufacture and package their products while also actively encouraging more people to recycle and compost and spread awareness nationwide. So, could I follow in Glad's footsteps and throw a party that resulted in only one bag of waste? It was time to find out!

sisters
My overly-excited co-hosts eagerly awaiting the arrival of our party attendees!
Beginning with the decorations, I opted to leave out any unnecessary items and stick with the basics. As well as cutting down on garbage to throw away at the end, I found that setting out the Earth-friendly Green Apple Soy Candle and then letting the beauty of the outdoors do the rest was much easier than hanging streamers or blowing up balloons!

soy candle

Pulling out the bambu Veneerware, I was immediately impressed that these chic-looking napkins, plates, cups and flatware were compostable. What better way to reduce excess waste than by having guests utilize these high quality, modern pieces and then know that they would biodegrade when we were done?

green party supplies

After prepping some food and encouraging guests to bring a dish to share (in a container that would then return home with them), it was time to pack a few items into our Collapsible Metro Cooler Market Basket to keep them cool, while also encouraging the importance of going green with the unique tree print design.

market tote

All that was left was to kick back and enjoy a relaxed, laid back outdoor summer party! For the adults, there was plenty of chatting, laughter, food and drinks...

party food

...while for the kids, there was fun in the yard with toys, the sand table...

kids sand table

...and enough water fun to keep everyone happy and cool.

slip n slide
What's a party without a Slip 'n Slide?
As the sun went down and our party guests began to leave, it was easy to look around and see that the cleanup was minimal compared to gatherings that we have held in the past.

All of the empty drink containers went into our recycle bin, any leftover food was stored in reusable containers, our flatware, plates and cups went into a pile to be composted, and our Glad Tall Kitchen Bag of garbage was left with plenty of room to spare!

Glad garbage bag

Prior to our party, we had been using these Glad trash bags in our kitchen and my husband and I had both commented on the strength and durability that they had been providing. It was easy to fill, pack down, and continue filling these bags and know that they were strong enough to hold up to even the largest of messes.

Plus, just knowing how much plastic Glad has saved by creating these innovative bags makes me even more happy to pull them out for everyday or special occasions. After all, the chance to use a high quality product, do our part to save the earth, and get to pass along a little extra knowledge to my kids about the importance of taking measures to be eco-friendly? That's a win-win-win!

taking out the trash

To find out more about Glad's commitment to bettering the environment and their great new products, visit GladToWasteLess.com. It's hard to not be impressed with their collection of bags that stretch to hold more, reusable containers of all sizes, bags with odor-neutralizing technology (that prevent throwing out smelly trash before bags are filled), composting and recycling bags to help divert waste from landfills, and much, much more.

Interested in taking the Glad One Bag Challenge? Be sure visit Glad To Waste Less to find out more as well as to download a free resource kit for help with everything from planning to hosting your event. And, thanks to their generosity, one person will be even more prepared for their next shindig, because...

One lucky person will receive a Glad One Bag Party Kit*!

Glad one bag giveaway

*Kit includes: Glad One Bag Tote, Veneerware Party Kit, Collapsible Metro Cooler Market Basket, Earth-friendly Green Apple Soy Candle, Glad Tall Kitchen Bags, and Green Works All-Purpose Cleaner

(Enter with the Rafflecopter form below. If you have any questions or problems entering, there is a video tutorial found here that can help.)

a Rafflecopter giveaway

I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of Glad and received a One Bag kit to facilitate my review, a kit to give away, and a promotional item to thank me for taking the time to participate.

330 comments:

  1. our wiimotes always need new batteries!

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  2. our video gaming remotes need batteries the most often!
    Jennifer (at) jennifervandahm.com

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  3. The battery operated toothbrush and the clock
    msgb245 at gmail dot com

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  4. our tv remotes.. Husband loves to watch the big screen either in the living room or the bedroom.
    kat_emerick@yahoo.com

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  5. The TV remote
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  6. tv remote!

    annae07 at aol dot com

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  7. Always the TV remote and my sons crib mobile

    mummytotwoboys@yahoo.com

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  8. My camera
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  9. The musical crib toys that take the huge batteries always need replacing every few months.

    greenhollytwig at yahoo . com

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  10. My son's Leapster Explorer!
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  11. My scale! And the flashlights.!

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  12. My flashlights ALWAYS need new batteries.

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    jbmthill

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  13. Our remotes always run out of batteries!

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  14. The kids toys and the wii remotes always need batteries!! in our home
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  15. flashlights and the wii remotes

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  16. The tv remote always seems to go through batteries quickly.

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  17. My camera and the Wii remotes.

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  18. Video game controllers. julierupert@gmail.com

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  19. The tv remotes. I think someone is stealing the new batteries while we are asleep

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  20. my granddaughters babydolls are always needing new batteries so the can talk

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  21. Xbox controllers always need batteries.

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  22. The kids toys ALWAYS need new batteries!!!

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  23. The computer mouse(s) always go through batteries.

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  24. The boys leapfrog pens are always in the need of batteries.

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  25. My digital camera always needs batteries!

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  26. my bluetooth mouse takes up so much battery power!

    jek9880 at gmail dot com

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  27. My computer mouse is always turning off.

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  28. My flashlight and my grandsons toys. dwelchert@yahoo.com

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  29. Glad is the best and batteries are in great demand stealing one from another!

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  30. The tv remote and the Wii remote always need batteries.

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  31. XBox controllers are endless

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  32. the kids' toys
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  33. Toys and remote controls take so many batteries in our home. even with rechargables I can't keep us in batteries
    allyson.bossie at hotmail dot com

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  34. its always the remote for the tv and dvd

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  35. definately the electric toothbrush!

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  36. Our computer mouse always needs new batteries.

    Les Johnson

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  37. The children's toys.
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  38. The real answer isn't very family-friendly, so I'll say the bathroom scale! ;)

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  39. My cd player is always running out of batteries.
    chavonne.harvey@yahoo.com

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  40. My mouse seems to need batteries quite frequently... lol chefl@swbell.net

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  41. Our Son is a guitarist and he goes through a ton of batteries for use in his music equipment.

    I should own stock in energizer by now!

    Thanks for the great giveaway opportunity. ~Pauline

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  42. Remote control toys and toy cameras.

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  43. The tv remotes at this house use up most of the batteries

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  44. My camera eats through batteries so fast. Thanks!

    romapup at gmail dot com

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  45. I would have to say the TV remote because I don't use much that takes batteries. Oh and my oxygen concentrator.
    Gladys P
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  46. toys and my camera!

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  47. Our digital cameras always need batteries.
    Thank you!

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  48. My sons xbox remote and mp3 player.
    Jennifer Rote
    wildnmild4u at yahoo dot com

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  49. The computer mouse always needs new batteries

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  50. My sons leap pad forever needs batteries

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  51. Thank you for this chance

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  52. The tv remote.

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  53. We always seem to need batteries in our satellite remote control - it eats batteries! My camera would be the next most used item!

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  54. ALWAYS the Wii remotes!!!

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  55. I always seem to have to replace the batteries in the party lanterns hanging in the porch

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  56. Our TV remote control and computer mouse always need new batteries.

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  57. Flashlights, for sure.

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  58. my kids toys always are low on batteries

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  59. In my house it's always the remote!

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  60. the portable CD player
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  61. My Wii Remotes are battery killers. Email: yona(at)pricelesswriters.com

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  62. Wii remotes and wireless mouse for the iMac.

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  63. All our remotes.
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  64. The item that needs batteries the most all the time is the remotes =}

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  65. our flashlights
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  66. Cameras and our remotes. We have about 7 different remotes for all my husbands little toys and they always go out.
    thanks!

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  67. Toys and the kids Wii remotes.

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  68. My digital camera and the boys R/C vehicles
    Thanks
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  69. My daughter's toys (Zhu Zhu pets) always need new batteries

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  70. My kids trains always run out of batteries.

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  71. Our Wii controllers always need new batteries.

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  72. Our tv remote always needs new batteries!

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  73. The Wii remote controls!
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  74. Battery powdered can opener & the Mp3 player to radio thingie.
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  75. cell phones and blood pressure cuff.

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  76. the kids toys

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  77. The TV remote always needs new batteries.
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  78. computer mouse crystletellerday@yahoo.com

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  79. Flashlights

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  80. My mouse always needs new batteries!

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  81. we always need batteries for my camera and the kids toys

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  82. my mous!
    Thanks a ton! Janna Johnson jannajanna@hotmail.com GFC: janna@feedyourpig

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  83. The remote control always needs batteries! So do the flashlights for some reason!!!!

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  84. My daughter's toys are always needing batteries.

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  85. our remotes are always needing batteries
    Sherri J.
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  86. Ian's toys.
    Sherry Conrad
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  87. Our wii remotes.

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  88. We always need new batteries in the flashlight.

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  89. My daughter's toys
    katelynsmom1@att.net

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  90. Our wii remotes are the worst.

    jessicabanks1721@yahoo.com

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  91. My smoke detectors, believe it or not. Turns out they all needed replacing, something wrong with the wiring! What a lot of noise!

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  92. twitted this, 8/6, flashlight is always out of batteries

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  93. My remote control and my camera.

    Love3570@aol.com

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  94. Remotes and game controllers! How sad is that!!
    pizzanumber2 at yahoo dot com

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  95. My remote always needs batteries

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  96. My remote always needs batteries

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  97. my daghters camera

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  98. the flashlights rkmarsh@aol.com

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  99. Smoke alarm
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  100. Flash lights
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  101. Wii remote, TV remote, RC cars
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  102. The remotes always need batteries.
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  103. The tv remote and the flashlights.

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  104. The remotes and the computer mice (mouses?)use a lot of batteries here.
    bethelderton59 at gmail dot com

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  105. My daughter's camera. She loves to take pictures!
    bkittie@hotmail.com

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  106. Our computer mouse takes alot of barrety power!
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  107. Our wii controllers eat batteries at an alarming rate!

    Colleen M.
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  108. Our camping flashlight runs through batteries like crazy.

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  109. the xbox 360 remote eats them like crazy

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  110. Clocks

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  111. my package scale eats up batteries pretty quickly ever since the glitch episode...never been the same since

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  112. MY BOYFRIEND'S RAZOR AND THE REMOTE CONTROLS :)

    shebebes@yahoo.com

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  113. my computer mouse! its wireless
    daniellex at gmail dot com

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  114. my camera... and my computer mouse :)

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  115. Smoke detector, tv remote, flashlights

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  116. Nothing needs batteries often but I suspect it wil be my new wireless keyboard

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  117. Our Wii remotes always need them!

    Thanks,

    selinda_mccumbers at yahoo.com

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  118. My wireless computer mouse!

    Thanks for the chance.
    mogrill12@gmail.com

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  119. My mouse, flashlights, and toys.
    spcale at yahoo dot com

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  120. my camera and kids toys ! ! !

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  121. our wii remotes and my son's musical/light-up frog that he sleeps with
    jenny lloyd

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  122. Wii remotes and computer mice!

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  123. My camera and the kids xbox controllers
    schueler.jessica@yahoo.com

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  124. our remotes always need new batteries!

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  125. My camera goes through batteries like they are free.

    scarter305 at aol dot com

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  126. MY kids toys, especially their remote control cars!

    Holly Miller
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  127. always need batteries for the controllers for the Wii and XBox.

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  128. My camera and Wii

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  129. My computer mouse always needs batteries.. mainly when I'm trying to do stuff.

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  130. My camera ... always needing new batteries when I need it most! Ugh!

    couponshanda (at) yahoo (dot) com

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  131. The TV remotes. But I buy the cheap batteries so that's probably why.

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  132. my little grandson's remote control car and the tv remote
    pkeintz@gmail.com

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  133. cameras and remotes always need batteries katielynnmitchell@gmail.com

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  134. My camera and the baby's bouncer.

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  135. one of the smoke detectors always seems to need batteries.

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  136. My camera and wii remotes always need batteries as well as my baby girl's butterfly that lights up and plays music at bedtime.

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  137. the remote controls, carawling(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  138. Our remote control and the baby's bouncer
    jjak2003 at gmail dot com

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  139. All my two year olds toys and the tv remotes.

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  140. Our TV remotes are always running out of batteries.

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  141. The different remotes involved with the TVs seem to gobble up battery power.

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  142. my son's remote control car. sheeessshh!

    leigh dot onedayatatime at gmail dot com

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  143. Scotty's controllers or wireless mouse

    scottysgirl4life@gmail.com

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  144. my kids toys... my oh my how they go through batteries

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  145. my son's flashlight always does!

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