You may have never considered it before, but the truth is that one of the best places to store extra spare bulbs for your lighting fixtures is in the fixtures themselves.
Actually, I digress a bit. My wife got me in the habit of unscrewing light bulbs because she has the eyes of an owl and cannot tolerate much bright light at all. Therefore, whenever we go out to a restaurant where they have lighting directly above the table, it is naturally my job to dismantle that thing by unscrewing the bulb from the socket not all the way, but just until the light goes out, leaving the bulb hanging there.
Carrying this concept into the house, I quickly realized that I had some lights integrated into ceiling fans, some on fixtures, and some in regular lamps, in addition to vanity mirror lights in the bathrooms, that all used like four or five bulbs each! How wasteful! Though I must admit, it did brighten the place up quite a bit.
So off I went to each separate lighting apparatus in the house unscrewing all but one or two bulbs. It turns out the remaining bulbs give off plenty of light, and my wife is happier with the lower light setting as well. The bulbs are still there, mind you, so they look fine when the light is not on, and it only looks a bit wierd when the light is actually turned on.
Now should the one bulb we are using out of a five-bulb fixture happen to burn out, there are four more right there in the fixture ready to go with a simple twist.
WE SAVE $ 20
PER MONTH
For me personally, I am happy with the reduced electric utility bill for sure. I estimate that just by unscrewing extra and unnessecary light bulbs, we are saving about $ 20 a month. However, we don’t normally have a lot of lights on anyways. If you are the type to either purposely or accidentally (or both) leave lots of lights on all the time like my mom is, I would think your savings could be significantly higher.
A simple twist
is all it takes!
So go ahead and unscrew those extra bulbs right now, and you too will start saving money IMMEDIATELY.
