For the last few years I’d used incandescent light bulbs in my outside lamp post. They would burn out
every month, like clockwork. The light was on about eight hours every day. It was highly annoying to
replace a bulb every month.
I have since gone to the wonderful world of CFL bulbs. I replaced an old incandescent bulb with a CFL bulb during the
last week of November in 2008. As I’m typing this on May 27, 2009 the CFL bulb is still working. That is
six months, which is six times longer than any of the incandescent light bulbs I used. That’s pretty cool,
but I haven’t even gotten into the energy I’ve saved.
EnergyStar.gov claims that CFLs “will save about $30 over its lifetime and pay for itself in about 6
months. It uses 75 percent less energy and lasts about 10 times longer than an incandescent bulb.” I’m a
believer. I’ve replaced all of my old incandescent bulbs in the house with CFLs now. If you haven’t
already replaced your old bulbs with CFL bulbs, I would urge you to do so. You will be conserving energy,
saving money and saving time of having to replace bulbs.
