-—It’s a very expensive bulb.
Do you like being cheated? Do I have to be cheated like this to want to save a little money?
Plus, like I say in the other post, I don’t want to wear a hazmat suit or spend $2,000 on clean up.
It’s bad enough I have a very dangerous bulb to get rid of now. I don’t really appreciate that hassle. They should pay me.
So, your undeniable logic is it’s okay to cheat people?-—
Our experience is that you’ll get your money back in the first mouths electric bill. As far as them being very dangerous, that’s simply not true. 5mg is miniscule. If they break just clean it up and stick it in the trash. Mercury is volatile. If you’re worried about the fumes robbing you of your precious bodily fluids open a window.
There’s more mercury in light switches, thermostats, and thermometers. There’s probably more mercury in a lot of people’s fillings.
You’re only cheating yourself out of significant savings on your electric bill.
They say you can’t just throw them in the trash, though, that you have to take them to a recycle center.
I still have my broken one in the original package on my coffee table because I’m not too sure what to do with it.
Anyway, I still have 8 or nine in the house but I didn’t know about them destroying photographs and art and stuff either. Not that I have much art, but still. They seem much more of a hassle then they are worth. And I didn’t really notice that big of savings.
Plus, of course, they lie about how long they last. At least with a regular bulb, you can just throw it out and buy another.
I just think of this example: I don’t mind paying for stuff when it works and works well.
A few months ago, I found a $34 brush for my cat at the pet store called a Furminator. As I picked it off the shelf I said to myself $34 for a brush!? Are you crazy?
But I have a long hair cat and gets matted fur and nothing else was working, regular brushes, the fine tooth comes, nothing.
So after using it for a month I ask myself: So how does the $34 brush suit you? And I was shocked to realize I never thought about how much the brush costs because it works so well.
But I do think about the price of the CFL because I don’t notice that great a savings and now this one burned out. It was hard to find a CFL flood light in the first place and then it doesn’t even last. Too expensive.