I've been looking for a good excuse to buy a moderately priced multimeter for quite some time, and I think I may have one now.
Can you use a multimeter to check household batteries?  I have a box full of AA, AAA and 9V batteries that my late mother had accumulated, and while they may be out of date I want to make sure they are really done before taking them to our community hazmat pick up this Saturday.  
I was going to buy a "battery checker" on Amazon and I started thinking that a multimeter might be able do this just as well and I'd have my excuse to buy the instrument.
There are a lot of recommendations on the archive for which multimeter to buy, but none very recent.  I'd love to have a current recommendation for a moderately priced instrument, digital or analog.
Thanks, Ant