Since I’m saving around $25 a month on my electric bill since switching, I’d have told my wife I didn’t care even if she did’t like the tone unless she wanted to take it out of her clothing budget. But that’s just me. Fortunately, my wife didn’t notice a significant difference either.
Offered for meditative purposes:
If some carbonate of soda be ignited in the flame of a Bunsen
burner, it will furnish an abundance of pure homogeneous light
of an orange-yellow hue. This light is quite bright enough to
illuminate objects in a darkened room, but all distinctions of
color vanish, light and shade only remaining. A red rose exhibits
no more colour than its leaves; gayly painted strips of paper show
only as black or white or grey; their colours can not even be guessed
at. The human face divested of its natural colour assumes an
appearance which is repulsive, and the eye in the absence of
colour dwells on slight defects in the clearness and smoothness of
the complexion. If now an ordinary gas burner be placed near the
soda flame, and allowed at first to burn only with a small flame,
objects will resume their natural tints to some slight extent, and
begin again faintly to clothe themselves with pleasant hues, which
will deepen as more light is furnished, till they finally seem fairly
to glow with radiant beauty. Those who have never witnessed an
experiment of this kind have but little conception how great would
be to us the loss of our sense for colour, or how dreary the world
would seem, divested of the fascinating charm which it casts
over all things.
- Ogden Rood, MODERN CHROMATICS, 1883
Around my house switching to the new bulbs has saved enough electricity that we offset the costs of heating water. For those who don’t bathe thee will, of course, be no such offset.