Same here, plus a lot more snow than usual. Supposed to be a mild winter this year...or so they say.
I also use a Battery Minder. Got 7 or 8 years out of the original battery...but then I started using the Battery Minder in the last year or two on that one.
I also park in-doors so it's not as hard on the battery.
"They" said that last fall too. Not quite accurate.
In the two weeks:
Put on winter tires
Fixed turbo drain leak
Replaced control arms/ball joints/sway bar bushings & links that I had in the garage waiting for me since March (nothing like cold weather to motivate?)
Put up my heavy gauge plug-in cord/electrical box for the driveway, since the wife gets the garage
Sucked the coolant heater cord into the fan, so fixed that; finding replacement cords around here is impossible. Put on my "winter" front grille with a marine plug where the VW emblem was.
Blocked off the radiator with my "custom" piece of thick cardboard coated in Gorilla Tape for waterproofing, winter bumper cover, blocked the lower front grille, put in the blocked passenger "winter" lower grille.
I'm ready for winter, I think