I try to maintain battery free storage of devices..

But every time I attempt to clear out a box of hoarded items,
I usually find another forgotten gadget with leaky batteries..

Then there's all the antiquated electronic items,
back at my mum's house.

I get my hoarding DNA from her...

What annoyed me last night was a small metal high luminescence power torch
on a shelf in my computer room.
So badly corroded I couldn't budge the battery.
So I gave up and binned it..

The battery inside had a 2020 use by date...!!!???

Whereas, something else I found at the bottom of a box of audio cables,
contained dead batteries expired in 2014,
which were perfectly clean and intact...???

Stilly - yeah, I forgot old toothbrushes...

I kept a pile of them, until my wife started covid 19 working at home,
got bored, and decided to do some guerrilla spring cleaning
while I was out of the way asleep...