On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 09:46:15 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 8/12/2017 7:34 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Friday, August 11, 2017 at 10:00:02 PM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote:
>>> On 8/11/2017 8:32 PM, wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:43:27 -0400, jmcquown >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 8/11/2017 6:28 PM, notbob wrote:
>>>>>> On 2017-08-11, jmcquown > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I gave one of the early chia-pet kits to a friend once when a group of
>>>>>>> us decided to have a sillest cheap holiday gift exchange.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I notice the "Clapper" (clap on!-Clap off!) is also from the same
>>>>>> company. They start doing a buncha TV ads around Christmas time.
>>>>>> I've actually considered buying a "Clapper", being a seriously lazy
>>>>>> geezer, 'n all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> nb
>>>>>>
>>>>> I think those clapper things actually work, nb! However, I'm not yet
>>>>> sufficiently lazy I can't turn a lamp on and off.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jill
>>>>
>>>> Anyone needs night lights this is the best:
>>>> https://www.amazon.com/Maxxima-MLN-5...=maxxima+mln50
>>>> They emit too much light for a bedroom but are great in bathrooms,
>>>> hallways and basements...
>>>
>>> You really do tout these night lights, don't you? Thing is, not
>>> everyone wants (or has need for) night lights. I don't wander around
>>> the house at night so I don't need anything like that. I also find LED
>>> lighting to be rather harsh.
>>
>> I agree. For me, it's because the spectrum is so narrow. I still have
>> quite a few incandescents because the light is much more pleasing.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
>
>Incans are too yellow for me. The LEDs we have are the whiter
>"daylight" color temperature.

Even my outdoor LED fixtures emit much nicer light than the old
incandescents, and use 14 watts compared to 100 watt bulbs that didn't
last long and needed to climb a ladder to replace bulbs, that always
burned out during the coldest part of winter.

>In the bathrooms, the over the mirror fixtures have three 60W equivalent
>LED bulbs and it is nice and bright in there.

I replaced a fixture over the bathroom mirror that used four 60 watt
incandescents with a bar type LED that gives better/more light and
uses just 9 watts. I used to hate changing bulbs on that old fixture,
had to gingerly remove the large glass shade while on a ladder and
leaning way over the vanity... was even more difficult repacing that
glass shade. LEDs can last 15-20 years, even longer if you remember
to shut them off when not in use. Now whenever an incondescent burns
out I replace it with an LED... I recently replaced the bulbs on my
two garage door openers, each takes two bulbs, those are a pain to
replace as well, gotta drive the cars out and set up a ladder, then
reverse he process. And how many times I thought to replace those
bulbs before pulling the car in, but never remembered until
afterwards. I don't really care if people don't want to save money
but I liked reducing my electric bill by half and still having light.
Electric garage door openers have a white opaque lens over each bulb
so light is the same regardless which kind of bulb... besides I don't
need mood lighting in my garage.