Can we please check our smoke detector batteries when we change the clocks, not when the thing starts chirping at 3am

Stella Coleman · 2026-09-29T11:00:03.602379+00:00

So last Wednesday around 3am my smoke detector started doing that loud chirp every 40 seconds and scared my dog so bad she knocked over a lamp. I spent 20 minutes half asleep on a step stool trying to figure out which unit was beeping, turns out it was the one in the hallway, and I had no 9 volt batteries in the house. Had to drive to the 24 hour gas station on Route 9 at 3:40am and pay $8 for a two pack that normally costs $4. The old battery in there was dated 2019, which means I have been ignoring that thing for over 4 years. Does anyone else just wait for the chirp instead of swapping them on a schedule, or am I the last person on earth doing this?

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