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I buy incandescents in bulk on Amazon and store them in the basement. Do the math on those new-fangled things. Besides keeping you in the dark until they are of a mind to light up, they also require amortization of their high prices over many years. So, if you're planning to sell your house in, say, five years, you're buying lightbulbs for someone else.

With that perspective, our whole house was bought for someone else. Anyway, I prefer the color of light that is cast from the new "warm" bulbs over the yellow of the old ones.

One of the 2 bathroom fixtures kept blowing the new bulbs, about every month or so, so I replaced the fixture last year and no more blown bulbs.

Let's clear something up: the fixture is called a "light fixture" and what we put in it is called a "lamp" not a bulb. Bulbs are for tulips.

Soon we will have to have a permit to carry incandescent lamps. Testing, licensing, photos, the whole damn cheese;

There will be restrictions on high-capacity light fixtures;

Your doctor, minister, next door neighbor will be informed of your possession;

Drive-by lightings will occur;

Military bases will be incandescently lighted;

Slogans like "lamps don't light, people light" and "... pry my lamp from my cold dead hands" will be popular;

The NLA will solicit money from its members to elect lamp-friendly politicians;

The neo-Luddites will be found in airports giving out candles.

That socket (correct me if that's the wrong term chas) more resembles today's sockets than the lamp resembles today's lamps.

Bill: yes the socket is that which receives the Edison-base lamp.

I reckon common usage is why most folks call 'em light bulbs.
I was an electrician for forty-four years until cancer pulled me from the game. I get too fussy sometimes; I didn't intend coming across all expert and know-it-all.

As with everything else, most of what people know is just plain wrong.

The first electric lamp was invented by an Englishman, Humphrey Davy. From Wiki:
The story of the light bulb begins long before Edison patented the first commercially successful bulb in 1879. In 1800, Italian inventor Alessandro Volta developed the first practical method of generating electricity, the voltaic pile. Made of alternating discs of zinc and copper — interspersed with layers of cardboards soaked in salt water — the pile conducted electricity when a copper wire was connected at either end. While actually a predecessor of the modern battery, Volta's glowing copper wire is also considered to be one of the earliest manifestations of incandescent lighting.

Not long after Volta presented his discovery of a continuous source of electricity to the Royal Society in London, an English inventor named Humphrey Davy produced the world's first electric lamp by connecting voltaic piles to charcoal electrodes. Davy's 1802 invention was known as an electric arc lamp, named for the bright arc of light emitted between its two carbon rods.

Thank you bilejones for shedding some light on this article.

The wife prefers pink tinted bulbs for the bathrooms. At my local specialty electrical store a wonderfully politically Un-PC old fart refers to them as "complexion" bulbs.