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I bought a whole bunch of CFL bulbs to replace the incandescents... They were terrible. They usually didn't last nearly as long as promised (if not failure, then at least diminished performance) making them pricier to use than claimed. They were ugly. They had to be disposed of carefully. They had to be on for like 30 seconds before they achieved full brightness... which also meant that, for many uses, they were disappointingly dim for the amount of time you needed to use them (a kitchen snack, the bathroom, getting something from the basement or garage or an illuminated closet, etc.). Because of that warm-up time, we tended to leave then on in rooms, whereas with the incandescents they replaced, we would only turn them on when we went into those rooms, so the extra time on meant that they probably used more energy than the incandescents they replaced. Colossal failure, from my perspective.