• Rechargable AA / AAA batteries
  • Wool socks (can never have enough)
  • Good USB-C cables
  • Coffee
  • Work gloves
  • A pack of 9V batteries to shut the beeping smoke detectors up
  • Edited to add: A fire extinguisher. People often forget those need maintained every so often.

If anyone wants to be a dull secret santa, hint hint ☝️

Any thoughts on the best battery charger? We have a Nitrcore pro charger. Curious if he’d like an upgrade, or if a few more packs of batteries would be enough. We do cycle through them quickly in this house.

I’ve got mostly EBL-brand batteries and 8-bay charger. They work well but the charger uses micro-USB which is kind of a bummer.

The other set I have are by PowerOwl. They also work great, and the charger (only a 4 bay) is USB-C.

Both brands are the low self-discharge Ni-MH style and can charge any combination of batteries (some chargers require them to be charged in pairs; neither of these have that limitation), so no complaints.