I am a pretty frugal person, but have really been a slacker when it comes to making energy efficient home improvements. Saving energy means saving money, so I was eager to take the challenge and swap out some of the existing light bulbs in our home for GE Energy Efficient Light Bulbs. It was time to make a trip to the ‘Do It Yourself’ department at our local Walmart, although I must admit Do It Yourself is not a department that I normally spend a lot of time in. I’m more of a ‘Do It For Me Please’ kind of gal.
Before you read on…more pictures from this shop can be found in our GE Lighting Google+ Album.
I didn’t know much about energy efficient lighting, so in preparation for this shopping trip I did a little research on GE Energy Smart Bright from the Start CFL Bulbs and here are some of the highlights from what I learned.
- Achieve full brightness, using less energy.
- Uses hybrid halogen technology.
- Last 8 times longer than standard bulbs.
- Uses 75% less energy than incandescent bulbs.
We now have many great options available when it comes to light bulbs. It’s time to start making more frugal and green lighting choices for my home!
You might be asking yourself, why does this matter? It’s pretty simple really. Using less energy not only helps preserve our environment, but also saves us money. I’m looking forward to seeing the savings in my monthly electric bill! Making the switch doesn’t require a big investment. One thing I noticed while shopping for light bulbs is that energy efficient bulbs have come way down in price.
The multi-pack boxes are a tremendous value!
To make it even easier on your wallet, GE has a fantastic $2 off savings coupon available for a limited time. I even had a $1 coupon from my April issue of ‘All You’ magazine, so I am feeling pretty frugal right now!
A cart full of savings!
Do you want to see how saving energy translates into saving dollars? Check out this Energy Savings Calculator on the GE web site. By swapping out all of the indoor and outdoor bulbs in my home, I can expect to save $142.64 annually. I thing that’s pretty great!
I was really surprised by just how many energy efficient lighting options are available at my local Walmart store. The GE Lighting section is pretty large and reasonably priced. I can’t believe I’ve been buying the energy sucking incandescent bulbs all of this time, when it’s so affordable to be energy efficient.
It only took a short time to change out our bulbs, adding on a few extra minutes for the ceiling fans that needed to cleaned while I was up there. The energy efficient bulbs are just as bright as the ones I replaced. Now that it’s done, I am looking forward to seeing the savings on my electric bill.
This lamp in my office is on all the time and really needed to become energy efficient!
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We switched to these light bulbs at least a year ago. They are just better for the environment and saving money. Great review I’ll have to get light bulbs from Walmart the next time I need some.
We have swapped out what bulbs we can for the high efficiency ones, but they don’t fit everything we have unfortunately. Hope they can make more that fit everything!
When we moved into our apartment last year we switched all the light bulbs. Their fantastic and totally worth it!
Yes we use energy efficient bulbs. We switched over a year ago, you change the bulb way less!
You know what? I think I am using those GE Energy saving lamps. Gotta save on what we can and I love getting that extra brightness for less of an electricity drain.
I’ve switched as many of my lights as I can to energy efficient… although I’d love for some of them – particularly the open chandelier bulbs to look nicer…
I love these light bulbs. We have been replacing all of ours in the house with the as we need to replace bulbs.
One of the things I have noticed since the switch is that they last so long. I rarely ever find myself changing them. Great review!
Light Bulbs really saves energy. Since we had our house we choose to use Light bulbs because it is very much savvy and economically.
Awesome, I hope this saves you lots of money!
LED lighting is the light for the future. It can save a lot of energy but unfortunately many people still do not aware of this.