February 5, 2009
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Rethinking CFL lightbulbs
So we were good little go-greeners and changed all the lightbulbs in our house to the new CFL lightbulbs. And now, I want to change them all back.
Yesterday, I went upstairs to change the baby’s diaper and heard a big crash. No one cried, so I didn’t think much of it (my kids are pretty rough). However, I came downstairs to see that they had knocked over a lamp and the CFL lightbulb had smashed all over our wool rug.
A quick google search assured me that all I had to do to clean up was: get everyone out of the room, open the windows for 15 minutes, put the broken glass in a glass container with a lid, vacuum and then throw the vacuum bag away. For real? This is what we have to do now everytime we break a lightbulb?
With three kids under the age of 5, mecury filled glass lightbulbs are just not something we are ready to use.
Do you?
Comments (1)
We don’t use them yet. I may be mistaken, but I was under the impression that they are going to do away with regular incandescent bulbs. We’ll have to go to gas lanterns hung from the ceiling then.. ha ha