On Oct 15, 1:22*pm, TFM® > wrote:
> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
> > Declan's Dad wrote:
> >> I've been using it every day now since... gee... June. OK, that's
> >> wrong. The first one I bought I used for about a month until for some
> >> reason the suction no longer worked.
>
> >> So I've been using my 2nd one since July-ish, and on a daily basis.
>
> >> The batteries last about a month. It takes 6 AA.
>
> > I'm glad you like the thing, but I hope you use rechargeable
> > batteries, or at least recycle the regular kind.
>
> If everybody who gave a shit did everything they could to protect and
> preserve the environment, there would still be the other 90% not caring at
> all.
>
> I speak of my neighbors. *I live in a poorer area of town. *Their idea of
> recycling is to throw their quart malt liquor bottles out into my yard as
> they drive by. *Mine and everybody else's. *They just don't give a shit.
>
> At any rate, I have one of the handi-vacs and I love it too. *It's on it's
> second set of batteries, and yes, they are rechargeable.
>
> My bitch about the product is that it won't hold a vacuum in the fridge. *It
> does great in the freezer, but manages to leak out in the fridge.
> Anybody have any input on this?
>
> TFM®

I hope you bag them up and give them back- otherwise, hopefully you
can turn them in for a deposit return?