Core77

They told us that expensive CFL bulbs would last for years longer than the cheap incandescent kind, and they lied! I've got some CFL's that already burnt out and they're only three years old. So much for my amortized cost savings.

If this has happened to you, don't chuck 'em in the garbage--there's Mercury in those bad boys. Bring your dead CFL's to Home Depot for proper (free) recycling. Just because the manufacturer is screwing us doesn't mean we have to screw the environment.

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