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I’m with you. I don’t understand all the people who profess to have aesthetic objections to the squiggly bulbs. After all, a bare Edison bulb is not exactly a thing of beauty. Not to mention the fact that they’re almost all under lampshades or concealed within fixtures anyhow.

Maybe there’s a survivalist aesthetic of which I am unaware. Some people sound like they live in bunkers, sit on ammo crates, and consider a bare Edison bulb dangling down on an exposed wire to be an essential part of the decor. Idaho chic, I suppose.

I converted to the squiggly bulbs long ago. They do save an electricity, but mainly I like not having to run to the store to replace them.

I converted to the squiggly bulbs long ago. They do save an electricity, but mainly I like not having to run to the store to replace them.

But you have to run to the store to dispose of them at county and state funded hazardous material disposal sites, which is an unmentioned very expensive additional cost of this product that taxpayers are forced to fund. Its a trickle down tax on everybody.

If you're not disposing of them at these sites you're polluting our ground water with mercury. And if one breaks on your carpet, you are supposed to bring in a hazmat team to remove it and dispose of it for you.

Which one is it?

I converted to the squiggly bulbs long ago. They do save an electricity, but mainly I like not having to run to the store to replace them.

Regardless of what their properties are and whether they are better than incandescent bulbs, the fact is the US government has no business banning them. If the curly bulbs are better the free market will decide, not the government.

I use the curly ones in my bedroom but must use the incandescent bulbs in the bulk of the house because they cause my daughter(who is grown but living here with her two children)gets headaches from them. She is prone to migraines and these things really set her off.

I know several other people who say the same thing about them.

Plus there is the so called mercury factor. However, the free market will take care of it without government interference, something the a**hats in Washington have never learned, nor will they ever until we teach them, but voting all of their sorry a**es out of office, one way or another.

Some folks do not notice the flickering off-color light a twisty bulb produces. But for those people with sensitive eyes, migraines or epilepsy twisty bulbs are dreadful.

Since you can not tell the difference the two kinds of bulbs go ahead and buy what ever kind are cheaper. Hopefully you will never have guests in your home who are ultra sensitive to florescent lighting.

When we moved into our brand new home four years my sweet hubby installed twisty bulbs in most the light fixtures. Both of us thought the twisty bulbs would be superior the traditional ones. Within a month he replaced all but two of the twisty bulbs because he thought the twisty bulbs made the interior of our new house dingy.

By the way I have a whole case of the dang bulbs that none of our friends or family want. What I need to do is give the case of bulbs away to the Salvation Army.

Some folks do not notice the flickering off-color light a twisty bulb produces. But for those people with sensitive eyes, migraines or epilepsy twisty bulbs are dreadful.

Since you can not tell the difference the two kinds of bulbs go ahead and buy what ever kind are cheaper. Hopefully you will never have guests in your home who are ultra sensitive to florescent lighting.

When we moved into our brand new home four years my sweet hubby installed twisty bulbs in most the light fixtures. Both of us thought the twisty bulbs would be superior the traditional ones. Within a month he replaced all but two of the twisty bulbs because he thought the twisty bulbs made the interior of our new house dingy.

By the way I have a whole case of the dang bulbs that none of our friends or family want. What I need to do is give the case of bulbs away to the Salvation Army. The shape of the twisty bulb is not what most people object to, rather it is the quality of the light.