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and replace all of your screw in incandescent light bulbs...!! :idea:
I kept hearing that the Compact Florescent screw in light bulbs were a pricey but better replacement for incandescent, so I finally tried a few. I noticed that my local Wal-Mart had a large display of regular CFBs plus a few Sunlight CFBs that weren't selling as well as they were about $1 each even more expensive. I had a hunch that they might be worth the difference, tho - and tried a few of both.
With the bullish Sunlight bulbs in the big guest privy and yellowish regular CFBs in the living room, I quickly came to hate the cheaper CFBs! The Sunlight bulbs are so much cheerier! I then set out to replace virtually all of the bulbs in the house with the Sunlight CFBs, moving the initially purchased yellowish regular CFBs to closets, the garage, basement.
I kept trying to explain this in message chat with my lady dive buddy in Houston, and she - knowing how I tend to overdo things - politely kept going "yeah, yeah, Don."
So I took her one this weekend, stuck it in one of her ceiling sockets, and she loved it - deciding again that I'm not always crazy. Today - we cleaned out 2 Supercenters of their Sunlight CFBs. They really do brighten up a house.
Her house had always seemed a little dark within, and as this story played out - it seems she was raised by an electrician father to economize on electricity by using small bulbs and turning lights off as she left a room, which she had continued to do even as she had previously been replacing incandescents with yellowish CFBs in an attempt at extended economy. We've replace small wattage incandescents and regular CFBs as well with brighter Sunlight CFBs - as bright as each room could stand. Much cheerier - especially for a lady staying home to recover from Leukemia, and now we're working getting her in the habit of leaving room lights on when she walks out so they'll already be on when she goes back - or even walks by. Burning only 15 to 20 actual watts each to give off the equivalent of 60 to 100 watt incandescents, it's a false economy to turn them off sometimes.
I kept hearing that the Compact Florescent screw in light bulbs were a pricey but better replacement for incandescent, so I finally tried a few. I noticed that my local Wal-Mart had a large display of regular CFBs plus a few Sunlight CFBs that weren't selling as well as they were about $1 each even more expensive. I had a hunch that they might be worth the difference, tho - and tried a few of both.
With the bullish Sunlight bulbs in the big guest privy and yellowish regular CFBs in the living room, I quickly came to hate the cheaper CFBs! The Sunlight bulbs are so much cheerier! I then set out to replace virtually all of the bulbs in the house with the Sunlight CFBs, moving the initially purchased yellowish regular CFBs to closets, the garage, basement.
I kept trying to explain this in message chat with my lady dive buddy in Houston, and she - knowing how I tend to overdo things - politely kept going "yeah, yeah, Don."
So I took her one this weekend, stuck it in one of her ceiling sockets, and she loved it - deciding again that I'm not always crazy. Today - we cleaned out 2 Supercenters of their Sunlight CFBs. They really do brighten up a house.Her house had always seemed a little dark within, and as this story played out - it seems she was raised by an electrician father to economize on electricity by using small bulbs and turning lights off as she left a room, which she had continued to do even as she had previously been replacing incandescents with yellowish CFBs in an attempt at extended economy. We've replace small wattage incandescents and regular CFBs as well with brighter Sunlight CFBs - as bright as each room could stand. Much cheerier - especially for a lady staying home to recover from Leukemia, and now we're working getting her in the habit of leaving room lights on when she walks out so they'll already be on when she goes back - or even walks by. Burning only 15 to 20 actual watts each to give off the equivalent of 60 to 100 watt incandescents, it's a false economy to turn them off sometimes.
