- need to establish a system of keeping track what's charged
- train family to participate
- train family to stop buying alkaline (mainly because in the alkaline recycling process you'll lose a lot of your eneloops)
- grow immunity against complaints from family
This seems to be the root of all of your problems.
Just charge all of the cells that aren’t in use.
When you take drained cells out of something, they go in the charger.
Charger is always plugged in and right next to where you store the cells.
If there’s ever any question, just stick the cells in the charger. Don’t bother playing all of the games to avoid “memory effect”. It’s much better with modern cells and not worth the hassle to try to work around.
This process works wonderfully. We've got ~100 Enloop's of various generations around the house in TV Remotes, XBox Remotes, Garage Door openers, and toys. This process works well.