About four years ago John and I went through our Wagoner house and replaced all the light bulbs with CF ones (compact fluorescence) and the savings were amazing. Even though we didn't really have that many lights we saw about a $20-30 difference in our electric bill depending on the time of year. When we moved to BA we took the bulbs with us to the new rental. Since we had no electric history on the rental we didn't know what the savings would be, after all it was a band new house compared to our 30 year old house back in Wagoner.. Fortunately the builder had kept the electric history to show potential buyers and for the months we had lived there they had paid the previous year about $100 for electricity to keep the house cooled and the lights on for showing. Well our first bill for living in that house with the CF bulbs in all the fixtures was ONLY $90!! There is no telling how much a family would be saving since they didn't use the electricity the same as when you live in the house.
When we moved from the first rental into our current rental we didn't bring the bulbs with us as we left them as a gift to the new owner of the house. Our new rental has so many fixtures and the lighting here is so awesome I cringed at the thought of the cost to buy CF bulbs for them. But the funny thing is GOD is always there looking for ways to bless us and most of all HE knows our needs and desires, so I wasn't at all suprised when John called from Lowes one day to ask how many bulbs I thought we needed. There was a a case of CF bulbs on sale!!!!. They were in boxes of 6 for only $6.35 a BOX!! I told him to buy as many as he could afford to because we had TONS OF LIGHTS and I didn't have time at that moment to actually count or estimate how many we needed. Last night we took the 5 boxes and replaced 30 but still need MORE!! The average wattage of the bulbs we took out was 100 watts The new CF ones only use 13 WATTS. I am looking forward to seeing how much a difference the new ones will make on the electric bill. In the end we will have put in over 48 new CF bulbs in the house plus we plan on replacing the can lights with CF cans. I will post what the saving are as soon as we get the new bill--it may take a full two months though to see the actual savings as I think we are going to hit the electirc bill in the middle of the cycle.
Now I need to figure out what to do with 48 100watt bulbs?!! Anyone need some lights that will cost you LOADS OF MONEY TO USE?--lol!!
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