Honestly, I think they make curly bulbs for nearly all applications now, and they’ve come down in price some. My advice is to stockpile the bulbs you prefer before they are gone from the shelves. I don’t mind the curly bulbs for some uses, but not for all. The savings on electricity is the ONLY reason I have some.
Al Gore and his pals can KMA.
Question, since you use them for som applications - is the energy difference really noticeable, or is it minor?
Curly ones are OK for hard to reach places. But for home lighting, they basically are inferior. 90% of my spelling mistakes are because I use them in my living room lamp and they are not all that bright or clear, light-wise.
When I lived in whacko liberal Seattle I thought it would be fun to “accidentally” drop a curly bulb on a busy sidewalk and start screaming about mercury vapor and “someone call the hasmat team”.
I mean, in 2002 my entire building was cleared and hasmat called because someone spilled the powdered sugar off their doughnut onto the carpet. It’s that kind of town. ;-)