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Bulb Wattage

When you buy an ordinary bulb for your home, what is the wattage for it: 60, 75, 100? What affects your decision to buy this wattage?

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I spend the extra money and get the florescent bulbs for my house. They cost more, but last about four years and use allot less electricity. Now light bulbs aren't exactly expensive, but imagine spending five dollars a bulb, and the bulb lasts almost five years and uses about a fourth of the electricity! It really starts to add up when talking about all the bulbs in your house. Add to it the fact that they give off less than a tenth of the heat, and you save on cooling in the summer time as well.

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I usually buy a rather large assortment of bulbs for my needs. Depending on the room size, color scheme, type of light fixture as well as what the room is used for determines what output bulb I would use. My office for example I use 75 watt light bulbs because I do not want to work in the dark nor do I want the light to give me a headache. Bathroom on the other hand I use 100 watt most of the time (with the exception of the half bath which has 4 bulbs on the fixture in which I use 60 watt) to make sure I am not straining to see in the mirror.

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I use a 60 watt bulb right round the house, in every room.
The reason for this being that years ago, I used 100 watt bulbs only, and in our living room, we had a ceiling pendant that had 3 shades on it, and one of the bulbs blew, shattering everywhere, and burning out the lamp shade in the process.When we called an electrician out, he informed me that I had overloaded the electrics, and "was lucky I hadn't blown the house up"
It has made me wary since--- can't think why that might be , so that's why I now just stick to a lower wattage bulb.-- safer all round!