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Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169474) • United States 13 Nov 22

My sister lives in a community for older people. They range in age from 60 on up. Many of her neighbors have health problems, take lots of medicine, and some are confused. Some of them get paid help, just like I am paid to help...

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Have you ever noticed

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169474) • United States 12 Nov 22

When I have one light bulb go out, usually several others do too. They are odd, though. My ceiling fan had one bad one that was completely out, and one going out. That is out of four. The three fixture one in the office had one...

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Getting back

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169474) • United States 1 Sep 22

I am now officially down to half days at the school, unless it is a dire emergency. Bob went with me and I took my sister shopping and to pay her rent. I will go by myself to her house this afternoon. Old covid me is beginning to...

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A Light Bulb Moment

MrsJ @SophiaMorros (5044) • Belews Creek, North Carolina 4 Apr 19

A couple of weeks ago I began having difficulties with my bedside lamp. It would come on, sometimes, but would blink out at random moments. I tightened the bulb, but it didn’t solve the problem. Eventually, the light failed to...

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Simply the Light Bulb

RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (98005) • Daytona Beach, Florida 28 Aug 18

Can you imagine a time so far back that there were no light bulbs? Today it seems unimaginable but yes, there was such a time. It took the genius of Thomas Edison to come up with this idea. Until this time existed electric arc...

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the vibrating lightbulb

scarlet_woman @scarlet_woman (23463) • United States 25 Dec 17

those new lightbulbs that look like a spiral..i don't know about you but i don't like them. they were supposed to be greener (contains mercury),last longer (barely),and used like the old (they didn't fit half my lights,i had to...

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Light bulbs have become confusing to select

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 15 Feb 17

Most of us grew up with the old incandescent light bulbs. When one burned out, you bought another. They are still around, but won't be forever since they are not at all energy efficient. They are pretty cheap to buy though by...

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LED light bulb, we should take a shot

kingparker @kingparker (9673) • United States 22 Sep 11

I heard so many good words about this LED light bulbs, and I knew the world is in changing from the traditional Edison light bulb to LED lights. Since LED light doesn't emit any heat, during the summer time, it might save you a...

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I heard on the news that the United States...

lindaharding627 @lindaharding627 (1442) • United States 6 Jun 11

is doing away with the traditional light bulbs in 2012. They said that these bulbs cost too much to manufacture. We will be forced to buy halogen bulbs or the cone shaped dangerous energy efficient bulbs. I am not happy about...

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Why not switch to LED light bulbs

kingparker @kingparker (9673) • United States 22 May 11

From other posts, I saw many members want to save a little bit from their utility bills, especially the electric bills. Some member even switch off their traditional incandescent light bulbs to Compact Fluorescent light bulbs. Why...

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What do you write about when you can't write anything?

DoriLentrich @DoriLentrich (1016) • United States 8 Mar 11

It's been one of those days and I can't think of a thing to write on my current project or the ones coming down the pike. It's not writer's block, per se, but it's frustrating. Other than writing "I am a fish" over and over, I'm...

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Europe ban the selling of Incandescent light bulbs across the continent

kingparker @kingparker (9673) • United States 15 Sep 10

It is official, and EU take it seriously with all the retailers and businesses. On Tuesday, EU officially announced the act of banning the sell of traditional light bulbs, and LED and CFL will be the ones for the European market....

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mammy71 @mammy71 (69) • United States 9 Jan 10

I know this a a weird question but which do you prefer energizer lights or regular light bulbs... we have changed over to engerizer light bulbs and it does save on the electric bill.. just wondering.

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What light bulb do you trust???

Island_Geko @Island_Geko (3758) • Canada 13 Feb 09

Incandescent Light Bulb or Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs?? Which are safer for you and your family??...

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Beruang @Beruang (1309) • Malaysia 29 Jan 09

This is one of the questions that I had to answer during one of my job interviews sessions. [i]You are in a closed room with three switches. The three switches will turn on three light bulbs in another closed room and you are...

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Fluorescent Light Bulbs

tsgirl01 @tsgirl01 (900) • United States 27 Jan 09

Has anyone changed to the new fluorescent light bulbs? I changed all the bulbs in my house and my electric bill has come down drastically. Has anyone had this same experience? I am saving about $60 dollars monthly since I have...

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Energy efficient light bulbs may trigger seizures: FYI

jillhill @jillhill (37353) • United States 19 Jan 09

On our local news the other night they did a report on a woman with Lupus whose arm broke out in a horrible rash from sitting next to an energy efficient light bulb crocheting all the time. They also reported that the light bulbs...

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electricity & gas saving

user_786 @user_786 (1338) 19 Jan 09

Are you careful with using light-bulbs, electric or gas heaters and oven? Many people i know dont bother switching off unneccessary lights and other appliances resulting in extra or too much bills. Do you keep an eye on...

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How do you conserve energy, and Is it importand to you?

kayla_7602 @kayla_7602 (704) • Canada 18 Jan 09

Ok so where I live the price of hydro can get extremely high, so for me I do conserve energy and for 2 reasons, one being the enviornment, 2 being to try to control our hydro bill to keep it at an amount we can afford. We just...