I recently bought a watch with a stop watch so I can sneak in extra minutes of exercise and keep track of my minutes. This is my reminder that if I'm watching TV I should get up during commercials and jog in place or run up and down the basement step, or do counter push ups while cooking dinner!
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I use this idea all the "time"![pun intended!]. I have more than one watch and when I'm not wearing the others, I pull "the pin" mechanism on the side to stop the time [as I am not wearing the watch, I don't wish to run the batteries down]. Then ,if I switch watches for the next day, I'll pull the pin on the watch I WAS wearing. And I remember right BEFORE putting the watch on to reset it to the proper time. This may seem like an inconvenient thing to do,but I've found it saves the batteries..
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...and makes them last longer! I also turn "off" my watch at night!
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