How many different types of lightbulbs do you have?

[Phentex]

The last bulb in the fixture in the stairwell finally burned out. It's an old fixture with candelabra bulbs. It was so high up, we never added new bulbs and we planned to change the whole thing out "one day"...

I never realized how dark the stairs could be!

Yesterday, the bulb in the overhead fixture in the bathroom burned out. So my husband decided it was change a light bulb day in our house. However, when he went to the BULB BIN where I keep bulbs, he realized we didn't have any bulbs that would fit. This one was wasn't a screw in kind but the kind you push in. We have no other fixture like it in the house. That's when I pulled the bin out and realized JEEZ O PETE, how many kinds of bulbs do we need? There are night light sized bulbs, larger cfls, candelabra bulbs in different styles (some with the big base, some with the tiny base, some funky tube looking bulbs, etc. How did we manage to buy (or should I say NOT replace) so many different kinds of fixtures? It's insane.

And the other odd thing was I had put a date on the bulb in the bathroom. It was replaced 02/09. I guess that's a decent amount of time, but I thought the new bulbs were supposed to last years?

P.S. New fixture purchased for stairwell. Regular cfl bulb. :)

[Warpy]

1. I have an old 4 pin CFL in the porch light

and 5 spares in case it burns out, which it does every couple of years.

The rest are all standard bulbs and standard CFLs, unless you count the LED bulbs in my head lamp.

I do have a fluorescent tube in the bathroom and I've been waiting for the occasional flashes to turn into a burnout, got the new fixture all ready to go in and the mini CFLs to put into it.

[Phentex]

4. Still have some flourescents, too. I forgot about those but

I don't think we store them anywhere.

My husband brought the new bulb home last night and then dropped it in the kitchen. :crazy:

[Lugnut]

2. Too many.

We're still using up old incandescent bulbs in fixtures that aren't lit very often and in the fixture over the kitchen table that's on a dimmer switch. We've been using CFL bulbs in as many fixtures as we can so there's a supply of those for replacements. Low watt blubs are for the range hood and nightlight bulbs are for, yep, nightlights. The garage lights are another story. This is nuts!

[Phentex]

3. Sounds like us...

I don't think about it until I look in that bin and think what the heck? But I can't get rid of anything because that will be the next to burn out.

[Mist]

5. A minimum of 6, off the top of my head. Now I think about it, probably more like 7 or 8. nt

[Phentex]

10. Do you have plans of synchronizing?

Or will you be like me and have a bin of different kinds on hand? :)

[Mist]

13. Not at this time. I have lamps that I need the brightness of incandescent bulbs. I have

ceiling fixtures that take small flourescent bulbs that screw in, and a ceiling light in the kitchen that takes only a funny flourescent bulb that has 2 small pegs at its base rather than threads. I have a bathroom fixture that takes only narrower-than-standard screw in incandescent bulbs. I have 2 fixtures that have dimmers, so they only take incandescent bulbs. Then there's the outdoor bulbs...

[ejpoeta]

6. pretty much replaced most with the cfls though that means leaving off the

covers. so we have the bulb sticking down from the ceiling. i hate that. but we were changing those regular bulbs every couple of weeks. and we have cathedral ceilings which just means i have to stand on the tall step stool to reach it and i don't like doing that. i couldn't imagine having even more types of bulbs! i'd like to find something other than regular bulbs that can go in my dining room light that dims. anything that can save money!!

[Phentex]

11. That's what I'm going to do...

leave the cover off and see if it helps. I'm the only person in there so I don't care if I see the bulb.

I tired a cfl in a fixture that dims and got a humming sound which drove me crazy. So I had to take it out.

[madamesilverspurs]

7. Two kinds,

working and burned out. . .


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[Phentex]

9. ah yes...

I didn't get a chance to date the one we just replaced but I dated the flap from the box and kept it. I think I'll leave the cover off the fixture and see if I notice a difference.

[txlibdem]

8. We have 3 that I can think of

First is the standard Edison (screw in) bulbs in our lamps, recessed lighting and hallway sconces. They are different sizes. We have 2 sizes of recessed lighting fixtures and the hallway sconces use a tiny screw in bulb (which is the same size as the lights above the kitchen table in that hanging light fixture monstrosity). Then outside we have the same size bulbs as fit in our larger recessed lighting cans (rated for outside use I suppose). All Edison standard screw-ins though.

Then there are the under cabinet lights that I am unfamiliar with (three of them just burned out though so a trip to the lighting store is in my future). They are xenon bulbs I believe and are just a tiny glass bulb with a flattened end where the wires are bent over so they just push into a socket and make contact that way. Kinda reminds me of christmas lights but not the same shape.

The last I know of are the puck lights that are under the eaves along the front of the house. One of those has been burnt out for about 6 months so I might as well replace that too while I'm at it. I've never even opened up one of those fixtures, though so I have no idea what the bulb looks like... I'm hoping they're the same as the under cabinet lighting but you know what happened the last time we were all taken in by HOPE.

:hi:

[Phentex]

12. LOL! We have some

under cabinet lighting, too, but got lucky when one burned out as dh had some extras. Man, I forgot about those. Now I know I have too many kinds of bulbs!