May 5, 2019

Thirty or forty years ago, keeping a supply of light bulbs on hand was a simple thing: a pack of 60-watt bulbs, one three way bulb, a 40-watt utility bulb for the refrigerator, a yellow light bulb for the outside light…that was about it.

Now I stand at the shelf over the dryer in the utility room and look at the wide assortment of light bulbs:

• the LED bulbs that fit the recessed kitchen cans;
• the extra-small LED bulbs that fit the new family room track cans;
• the 8-pack of LED bulbs that DO NOT fit the new family room track cans and that might fit something somewhere sometime;
• the large clear bulbs for the pendant kitchen light;
• the two sizes of halogen bulbs for the two living floor lamps;
• the other size halogen bulb, labeled in Bill’s handwriting “for the desk lamp;”
• two packs of special IKEA bulbs for the pin-up lights in the guest room;
• some mystery halogen bulbs—-I have no idea;
• two mini-spiral 13-watt LED bulbs that fit the new overhead ceiling fixture in the hall;
• the candle-shaped LED bulbs that are needed for the two outside pole lights;

and one 60-watt bulb, three three-way bulbs, one 40-watt utility bulb, and a yellow bulb for the outside light. (No partridge in a pear tree.)

Thomas Edison would be amazed.

And do I have those extra-special LED things that don’t even look like a bulb but more a part for a robot, and are needed for the two burned out walkway lights? No. Fortunately I am an Amazon Prime member.