I'm thinking of replacing all my light bulbs with florescent ones. I feel funny about throwing away working bulbs. Can you help me do it with logic?
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The Dean
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I would hold onto them in the event one of the new ones burns out. You never no when you'll need a light bulb!
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Errr. LOL I wouldn't replace them until they break, but then again, the point of changing them now is to kick in the energy saving now... I guess you could always keep them in backup in case your fluorescent ones break for some reason so you'll have backup... or if you have a new lamp and forget to buy some!
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two things, hold onto a few of them, and give a few away, some thrift shops will take them as donations because some houses who do pay there electric bill cannot afford to put lights in every room of there house. so the thrift shops will give them to those people. not only are you helping others with them, but you can use it as a tax write off to counter act the price of a cfl lightbulb. p.s. i love mine. and they do cut a lot off your electric bill.
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I also have places where the neck of the new bulbs isn't long enough to work. Like in the garage door opener. What can i do about that?
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I wouldn't put screw in flourescent bulbs in enclosed fixtures they get too hot and the built in ballasts burn out, you end up replacing them to often and they end up costing more
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misplaced comment was here.
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Some lights you will not replace. Closet lights and similar spots where the bulb is only on momentarily should be kept incandescent as it actually cost more to operated fluorescents for a few seconds. I have saved all my old bulbs to replace these few as they fail.
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