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Does anyone really think the majority of people will take the time/hassle to dispose of them properly? I doubt it, leaving bits of mercury (I think it is) everywhere. After all these years of being harped at about how deadly even bits of mercury is, this bugs me.

I have stocked up a closet full of the current lightbulbs.

Amy,

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Oh my god, this is the loudest laugh ever at my screen. Well except for some of Letterman's top ten.

In fact, engineer hubby just asked "what was so funny". I said "they are talking about an easy bake sous vide oven". blank, just the sound of a sip of coffee.

Y'know, technically, incandescent bulbs are also supposed to be disposed of in hazardous waste because of the lead levels in them.

Really? Had no idea......

There are dimmable CFs, although I haven't tried them.
I've had a CF in our unheated garage for a couple of years (temps probably range from 20s-30s to over 100 degrees).

The big problem for me is the warmup time (particularly in the aforementioned garage). Kathy banished a CF from the basement storage room because it took too long to get to a brightness where one could really see. I also think you can't use them in enclosed recessed fixtures, which is what's in our closets and over the kitchen sink.

I've been eyeing some LED spots. I've noticed that the manufacturers no longer print the brightness (lumens) on the incandescent bulb packages. This inhibits trying to determine if a given low-wattage bulb is actually as replecement for a given wattage of incandescent.

We have tons of them. The warmup time drives me insane. We do have them in some of the recessed lighting Pete, I'll ask Rod to be sure and edit--don't know if they are anything special.

I have used some of the ones made for dimmer switches....work sort of ok, but the warm up time does drive me nuts, epecially on the basement stairs...but I am trying to be good, so I use them. No problem in sub-zero weather with my porch light.

I use the CFs in the basement. We keep a "night light" on in the boiler room/litterbox room (for the cats; it's my husband's deal. I say they can see well enough in the dark to take a dump.) I feel better leaving the CF on since it's only about 10 watts versus 75. I also use them in a couple hard to reach fixtures (high ceilings). But for the dining room, bathroom, and other areas where quality of light matters, I use incandescent. I suppose I should stock up too.

I admit I threw away the first couple CF bulbs that went out - I didn't know about the mercury. There doesn't seem to be any conspicuous warning on the packages, either.

Our fixtures are a box in the ceiling/soffit with a frosted glass lens, making it a totally enclosed box. Not sure what the problem is with that, other than that the ballast might heat up (but more than an incandescent??).

Not going to do it for closets anyway, since we need light when we turn the switch on.