Your House: Are You Looking For Ways to Cut Monthly Electricity Costs?Preamble to Your House1992: Installed a screw-in 2-piece compact fluorescent lamp, 13Watts, into an outdoor coach lamp above the garage door. Until early 2004, it was on pretty much every night for 5-hours. The garage faces West. It gets the benefit of high winds, snow, ice, sleet,in Winter, & rain and hot sun in Summer. Anyone want to know when the bulb was replaced?? Actually, it never was, to that point. Here's what happened: The lamp was 'retired' in early 2004 as a 32W SpringLamp (2100 lumens = similar to 130W) became available and provided much more light. However: The 13W lamp still operated! It was brought indoors and for the next 12 months, it lit up a basement area for about 16-hours each day. The lamp finally expired. (for you collectors out there - our regrets - it was disposed of. It's gone - we weren't thinking! So sorry...) However, if anyone wants to purchase a 'slightly used' :o) 'screw-in' ballast, we may be persuaded to send it along.... It was Great! not having to replace bulbs for ~ 12-Years! and to pay for using 13W instead of +60W for about 12-Years!! - A pleasant alternative to incandescent bulbs !
Make Your Garden An Oasis....Moving away from 'Pure' energy cost cutting, sometimes it is necessary to get a complete break from the hustle and bustle. Finding a tranquil corner of your world may be a challenge - but - you could create one:
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