I have to apologize to my long gone father

[Old Crank]

He was always telling us to turn off the light when we left a room to save electricity.
Part of a whole generation of dads ahead of their time, doing their part to save the world.

[dweller]

1. We aren't air-conditioning the yard !

meant shut the door, or window




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[Tree-Hugger]

2. I can still hear my dad

"Light!" he would gently exclaim anytime someone walked out of the kitchen.

[MLAA]

3. Mine dad as well, though just as many times he would say 'turn on a light or you will go blind'

when I was reading in dim light!

[magicarpet]

4. I suspect it had far more to do with the electric bill,... than ecology

.... or excessive carbon in the atmosphere.

Same with,.. "Quick, close the door, what do you think - we can afford to heat the whole neighborhood ?"

[brewens]

5. Yeah, but this is how I turned out.

[Ocelot II]

6. Mine, too, but I don't think he had the fate of the planet in mind

as much as the size of the electricity bill. He'd follow us around turning off lights - and then there was "We're not trying to heat the outdoors, close the damn door!"

[in2herbs]

7. During my recent house remodel I had all the can lights switched to LEDs. I, too,

grew up in the era where you were told to turn off the lights when you left a room. The other day, out of curiosity, I googled whether this was still true with LED lights. The response was that turning on and off LED lights actually shortens their life span compared with other bulbs. So we either leave lights on (and use electricity when we don't need to) or the garbage heaps will be fuller if we turn LED lights on and off because they have to be replaced more often.