[Marcella]

A couple of days ago there was an article about this on FR and I didn't know the bulbs would stop on Jan. 1. I immediately ordered a bunch of regular 40s and 60s, but the most concern were the clear 40s for ceiling fans. There is a fan with 4 of those bulbs near my chair and I must have that lighting and those bulbs stay on from the time I come downstairs until I go to bed so they go out fairly quickly. I looked for the ceiling 40 bulbs and they are not easy to find. The cheapest was at Walmart and they would only let me buy 5 cards of 2 on the net. I'm going to see if I can buy more cards today from them. I don't know if they were actually out when I couldn't buy more than 5 or if they were allowing you to only buy 5.

[Marcella]

I went to the Walmart website and today they let me buy two cards (two on a card) of the clear ceiling fan bulbs. I did that, so I have a total of 7 cards of 2 at my Walmart store to pick up. They hold that order for 14 days, so I’m not picking them up until after Christmas as the store right now will be jammed with people with colds/flu, etc.. Not getting in germ infested store right now.

Tomorrow, I’ll see if I can buy more of them on the net to send to the store.

[Texas Fossil]

Did you know that the clear bulbs last much longer, but radiate more heat. (the reason they last longer) The inside frost light bulbs hold the heat within the bulbs and run hotter. The clear bulbs are not good in an enclosed light fixture because of the radiated heat transferred to the fixture.

The light from clear bulbs have some glare unless you have them in a diffused glass light fixture.

I personally use the clear bulbs whenever possible, but there are places where they don’t make sense.

I bought all the 60 watt clear bulbs they had at a nearby Dollar General store, and ordered a case of 60 watts. I like their bulbs better than WallyWorlds. (my wife likes to shop at WallyWorld.) The aluminum base is better formed (smoother) on the ones from Dollar General, I have less trouble removing them from the fixture.