Energy saving lightbulbs
I can't go online without somebody sending me a box of the bastards which never, ever fit any of my light sockets. I have a giant basket of them: you are welcome to if you want 'em.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 18:19, 2 replies)

Put them on freecycle if not
Someone will find them useful.
(Marmite Omelette ...but I feel better having screamed, don't you?, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 18:32, closed)

fine
but freecycle are shit. they make you get a yahoo id, then you have to *request* to be part of their smug fraternity. Fuck 'em.

If you have to go through a rigmarole to give stuff away for free i would rather leave it in the garage.

Also I am extremely lazy.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 22:44, closed)

the lazy twunt who I bought my house from
left every room full of the most shit furniture you've ever seen.

within about half an hour we had freecyclers coming to get it all.

they are freaks, but we've got some good stuff off there too.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 11:40, closed)

i cannot use energy efficient lightbulbs in my house
I can only use incandescent light bulbs. I heard on the news a few weeks back that incandescent bulbs will no longer be sold in 5-10 years, and that use of them will be illegal!
What the fuck am I to do?
My whole house is wired up to turn lights off when people leave the room, and turn on when people enter, and in the middle of the night when you get up for a piss, or to see to the crying baby, it brings the lights on at 30% brightness, so you don't get completely dazzled, and can still see clearly at that lighting level. Surely this is energy efficient ?
It will cost me over £2K to convert back.
( turb0t, Sun 26 Oct 2008, 13:58, closed)

You could use
LED lights. Expensive, but you don't lose your impressive-sounding lighting arrangement.

Alternatively you can get some dimmable-in-stages energy savers.

I'm considering installing Electroluminescent strips or single LEDs around the flat (on the unused faces of doorframes) to give me a low-level "sofa-avoidance" level backlight at night. I'm just pricing it up at the moment so I don't know if it'd be really cheap. Could you try that?
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 12:14, closed)