Not as advertised
We bought our house here almost three years ago. One of the first things that I did was to try to replace as many light bulbs as possible in the house with CFL bulbs. Our bathrooms have those large globe-shaped light bulbs and it was hard to find the right shape CFL bulb for them at first. And they tend to be expensive to buy, but they promised to save electricity and last much longer than the standard incandescent light bulbs. Well, the master bathroom has a strip of 6 lights on it. I decided that I would replace three of the standard bulbs with CFLs, and then as the standard bulbs burnt out I would replace them with CFLs. Much to my surprise, the CFL bulbs are burning out faster than the standard bulbs! I wonder why, and I have to say that it is very aggravating because they cost so much more money to buy in the first place! I’m not convinced I’m saving any money doing that now!