The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for August 23, 2014

I have had a few that burned out faster than an incandescent.

Wrong!Have had 3-4 go out in the past 2 years.It would take a dozen hazmat people to clean it up if it were to break.Should be taken to a recycling center.But our local center doesn’t have a place for them, said to just put them in the trash to go into the landfill.

Better living through bureaucracy.

I have yet to have one last more than 14 months, their cost was more than the electricity that I saved.

I have a bag with at least six burnt-out ones waiting for me to take to the recycle center. Poor quality light in the rooms from them as well.

The problem is that they are not supposed to be covered. They are just a phase. LED lights are much better.

But it takes four guys in hazmat gear to pick a broken one up.

They do last long, but their death is spectacular – and stinky.

Home Depot takes them and sells LED’s reasonably. Although, I do miss my incandescents.

Home Depot in my town does not take them. My local municipal transfer station took it and “put it in the back” for the state to take care of .

I used to buy around 10 bulbs a month. Then I switched. Over the past 8 years, I’ve replaced 3 bulbs.

I’ll be replacing all my CFLs with LEDs as they burn out – which won’t be long.

the cats gave up sleeping on my chair under the lamp that gives no heat

Why do we accept that the government knows what is best for us……..Toilets, Light Bulbs, auto safety?

Not only have most of mine burned out, I have had three catch on fire. I have incandescents in my barn that are over twenty years old. Freedom of choice for bulbs should not have been destroyed by government nitwits.

That tiny bit of mercury won’t hurt you, although many burned out bulbs would hurt the landfill. When I was a a kid we took a thermometer apart to play with the mercury. It really was interesting and fun,. It didn’t affect me, although i suppose repeated handling of it would have.

Agree with those who say the long-life claims are false. Thank goodness we have bureaucrats to tell us how to live out lives.

I stocked up on incandescent bulbs when they were available.

Whoever invented those bulb ought to be exiled somewhere. Worse than incandescent!

Plus you can get a 4 pack and at least one glows a different color.

Bought a package of eight at Costco. The first one burned out in just two weeks. The second in about two month. With in one year they were all gone.

Thank you, US Government idiots for making life more expensive, dangerous and less efficient.

Just switch back to incandescents. The gov exempted industrial bulbs, and I have seen a few sites that sell them almost as cheap as the normal ones. Go here and select your choice: http://www.globalindustrial.com/g/electrical/bulbs/incandescent/Type-A19-Incandescent-Lamps

Kinda hard to talk reduced energy consumption when you’re changing them faster than you change your underwear, as many posters (this one included) are suggesting. Besides, I’m just waiting for the environazis to come crawling out of the woodwork where they hid while CFLs were foisted upon the sheeple once the mercury pollution from them becomes an issue.

B.S. They suck and go out.

I’ve had seven or more curly Q lightbulbs burn out; I take them to the Home Depot for recycling. My township calls them “toxics,” unsafe for normal disposal. When one curly Q lightbulb’s tip broke off at one of my former jobs, NOTHING came out of it!

They cost three times as much or more per bulb, and they fail constantly. It takes them several moments before they warm up and give off a decent amount of light. Any possible energy savings from increased efficiency is more than offset by the energy required to manufacture and distribute all the additional bulbs required by these things failing every five minutes. And this is how we are going to save the planet? Thank you Federal government.

To be fair to some of Hattie’s naysayers, her data is more than a bit off. There are a lot of cheap bulbs out there, though they’re still better than the old kind. As a teen in the early 90s, I acquired a big, heavy, double-layered CFL for my reading lamp. It was supposed to last 7 years, and instead it gave me nearly 20. As much as I loved that bulb, I love the newer generation even better. They don’t heat up as much, cost a lot less to use, and turn on instantly. Their color rendering index has improved to nearly 100, and despite a few premature failures, mine last on average several times as long as incandescents. I even bought a “lifetime supply” about five years ago, which was just a couple dozen. As it is, I might not even go through all of them. Fluorescents were just there to tide us over while better technology matured. The new LED retrofits for all of our recessed lights look amazing, and we got them each for about $15. They use 10% less juice than the CFLs, are rated to last over 40 years, AND we can dim them!