This Sunday, November 4, Change Your Clock Change Your Battery®
By Emily:
Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday, November 4, time to set the clocks back and get an extra hour in your day. So what are you going to do with your extra hour? I wish I could say catch up on some sleep but unfortunately my daughters’ internal clocks never seem to get the daylight savings memo. Therefore, I am up at the usual time of 7:30, which will read 6:30 on the clock! Ugh, makes my internal clock feel like I am up an hour earlier! I can only assume this is probably the same scenario in 99% of the homes with small kids. So what better way to use some of that extra time than taking an important, yet simple, step to keep your family safe by changing the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors?
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the annual Change Your Clock Change Your Battery® program. Energizer and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) are once again working with local fire departments nationwide to raise awareness on the importance of working smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors in helping to keep families safe in their homes.
For 25 years, the Change Your Clock Change Your Battery® program has been dedicated to helping share the life-saving reminder to change the batteries in your home’s smoke and carbon monoxide detectors when you change your clocks for daylight savings.
Thirty-eight percent of fatal fire injuries occur in homes with no smoke alarms, while 24 percent occur in homes in which at least one smoke alarm is present but fails to operate, frequently due to dead or missing batteries.*
“In the past 25 years, the number of home fire deaths has substantially decreased,” said Chief Hank Clemmensen, IAFC president and chairman of the board. “That success is mostly thanks to the thousands of hours—every year for 25 years—that local fire departments have dedicated to improving the safety environment through technology, policy and, especially, public education efforts like the Change Your Clock Change Your Battery® program. But the world does not stand still, local fire department budgets are shrinking, many people still don’t have a basic baseline of protection from smoke alarms, and we must keep pace with changes in technology and the built environment, It’s still vital that homes be equipped with working smoke detectors in order to give families those critical extra seconds to escape.”
To help give more families those critical seconds, Energizer is honoring its 25th year by donating 250,000 batteries to fire departments across the country to distribute to local families in their areas and adopting 25 fire departments in 25 cities across the nation, who, in addition to batteries, will be equipped with a variety Energizer® family safety products for their department and to share in their communities. Together, they will host Home Safety Days and neighborhood canvasses spanning throughout National Fire Prevention Month in October until the end of daylight saving time on Sunday, Nov. 4. 
“We began the Change Your Clock Change Your Battery® program with the IAFC 25 years ago to do our part in helping to keep families safe, “said Michelle Atkinson, Vice President of Marketing for Energizer North America. “Today it’s amazing to look back and see how the more than four million batteries donated through hundreds of neighborhood canvasses has translated to countless lives being saved. It’s another example of our philosophy of – that’s positivenergy brought to life.”
For more information, please visit energizer.com and facebook.com/energizerbunny.
When you visit the Energizer Bunny® Facebook page between now and November 4 be sure to click on the Fire Safety Info Tab to win a Family Safety Kit. Contained in the kit, valued at more than $150 is:
· One reusable grocery tote
· Two Kidde Battery-Operated Combination Carbon Monoxide and Smoke Alarms
· One package of Energizer Advanced Lithium batteries
· One package of Energizer® MAX® Batteries with Power Seal Technology
· Two Energizer flashlights
· Two Energizer Flameless Wax Candles
· One Energizer Bunny Plush Bunny
In addition you can find fire safety tips, a home escape plan that you can download and draw your family’s home escape plan, as well as a coloring and activity sheet.
Enter to Win:
For one lucky Momstart.com reader we have a starter Family Safety Kit to giveaway. This kit includes:
· Two packages of Energizer® MAX® Batteries with Power Seal Technology – Dependable, powerful performance for the devices that help keep your family safe; now hold their charge when stored for up to 10 years
· One Energizer® Flameless Wax Candle – Enjoy the realistic flicker of a scented wax candle without the worry of open flame or hassle of soot and dripping wax
· One Energizer® Weatheready® Safety Light – Waterproof flashlight powered by AA, AAA or C cell batteries; includes safety whistle and imprinted preparedness checklist
· One Kidde Battery-Operated Combination Carbon Monoxide and Smoke Alarm
· A reusable grocery tote bag
The total value of the starter Family Safety Kit is approximately $78 per kit.
To Enter:
Let us know what you plan to do with your extra hour this November 4 for a chance to win!
Extra Entries:
Use the rafflecopter and leave a way for us to verify
This giveaway ends November 19th. Please see the giveaway rules. We received a sample.
*Fire statistics were obtained from reports by the Fire Analysis and Research Division of the National Fire Protection Association and the International Association of Fire Chiefs.
Disclosure – This product was provided to me free of charge by the manufacturer or representing PR agency for the writing of this review; however, opinions expressed are my own and are NOT influenced by monetary compensation.
About Emily:
Emily is also very active in the local MOMS CLUB. She raises chickens and has 2 shih tzus. Her daughter Caitlyn attends Montessori school and she hates housecleaning, loves wine and enjoys dining out. She would love to find a cure for the depression and anxiety she has dealt with on and off over the past 10 years, just like me. She is an amazing mom and friend.
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Sleep! I need it 🙂
can’t wait to get another hour of SLEEP!
I plan to get through an extra chapter or two on my book I’m reading!!
Sleep.
that will be an extra hour to sleep!!!! thanks
carolwegs at gmail dot com
I will catch up on sleep or watch TV
I’ll be sleeping! LOL
Sleep, if my daughters will allow it!
I am entering contests
I plan to use it for some extra sleep
lkish77123 at gmail dot com
sleep in with hubby
debbie jackson
djackson1958 at hotmail dot com
an extra hour of sleep will be great
Snuggle up with hubby and sleep! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
it will be sleep for me
Sleep for an extra hour 🙂
I think I’ll sleep or watch tv, something relaxing.
I plan to hopefully sleep!
Are you kidding – sleep! 😉
Lois
I’ll use it to enter more giveaways. lol
I hope to sleep.
Oh, I definitely need sleep!
I’m going to get an extra hour of sleep!
Sleep!!!!
sleep
I plan to sleep!
Thank you!
I plan to sleep more.
It probably won’t happen but I’d love a b it more sleep, I am up and down all night long
I would use my extra hour to sleep!
We plan to see a movie tonight 😉
It will be an extra hour to spend with a good book!
I had hoped to sleep but it didn’t work out that way.
sleep of course!
I slept in today with the extra hour of sleep!
Sleep would be nice.
I slept in!!
I used the extra hour to sleep. Thanks.
partymix25(at)hotmail(dot)com
i slept in
I slept.
Get an extra hour of sleep
i wanted to get some extra sleep….however….babies don’t really cooperate with time changes so my little ones were up an hour earlier (or the time their bodies are used to waking up without the change) so I really didn’t get ahead on my sleep at all
i slept in
Caught up on sleep.
I got a little bit more sleep
with the extra hour i got more cleaning done around the house
Get some extra sleep
Sleep
I would like to spend a quality time with my family.
Thanks for the chance!
i moved so it came in handy
I stayed p later at night & slept in a bit in the morning!
I actually had a good nights sleep!
I slept
I took an extra hour of sleep!
priscillavbenavides@yahoo.com
Slept.
slept in for a change.
I was up playing computer games when the clock changed
Thank you for hosting this giveaway
Louis
pumuckler {at} gmail {dot} com
I would watch reality TV! lol
I used my extra hour for sleep 🙂
I sleep! And I love every extra minute of it!
we slept in
We spent the extra hour dealing with the aftermath of # sandy