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Good riddance. I could always tell how inefficient those bulbs were, simply from trying to touch them to change the bulb. All that heat is wasted energy.
Plus there's a lot of neat things we can do with the new LED bulbs, including adding Wi-Fi circuits to make them smart bulbs. And the price of those LED bulbs is dropped so much, I don't even really worry about the price difference anymore.
I just found out that my mother has 6 or 7 gigantic moving boxes full of incandescent bulbs in her self storage container.
She tells me they will be needed once the led bulb conspiracy fails. And that they will be worth a lot of money, enough to pay for her retirement.
I can't even
Big Lightbulb pushing their agenda with more cost efficient lighting :/