Great Value CFL Light Bulb: 13 Watt (60W Equiv), 6-Pk for $9.88 from Walmart

I just replaced over 40 lightbulbs in my house over the weekend. Spent $105 in light bulbs. Hopefully I can save as much as $500 this year less my costs of $105.00 will give me a profit of $395.00. Sounds good to me.

Let’s say there are 20 bulbs in your home. The savings is nearly $250 a year.

• This set of Walmart Bulbs will save me how much in energy costs?
  Each bulb will save $47 in energy costs over the life of the bulb, based on $0.10 per kWh.
• How long will one bulb last?
  Each bulb is guaranteed to last 6 years based on average consumer use.
• How much energy does each bulb use?
  Each bulb uses 13 watts and produces as much light as a conventional 60 watt bulb. This will reduce energy use by more than 75%.
  Key benefits, compared to standard incandescent light bulbs:
  • Lasts up to 3 times longer
  • Uses 75% less energy, saving money on energy bills
  • Same quality of light as Soft White bulbs
  • Stays cooler
  • Goes on instantly, flicker-free
  • Approved for indoor and outdoor use

Compact Florescent Light Bulbs:If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.

Checkout the Energy Star Website on light bulbs here:
Energy Star Light Bulb Information

Steps to Saving Money:

1. Change your light bulbs. It’s that easy. Instead of replacing your burned-out 60-watt incandescent bulb with a new one, replace it with a 13 watt Compact Florescent Lamp (CFL). Light output is measured in lumens. A standard 60-watt bulb puts out about 800 lumens; so does a 13-watt CFL. So instead of paying for 60 watts of electricity, you only pay for 13 watts to get the same amount of light, a savings of 78%.
2. Be prepared for more cost to start with but savings in the long term. Compact Florescent Lamps do cost more initially, a lot more, but the energy savings mount up pretty quickly and cover the higher initial cost. They last a lot longer too; a standard bulb has an average lifetime of about 1000 hours while CFL’s last about 7,000 hours.
3. Replace existing light bulbs where possible. So where can you use these CFL bulbs? Just about everywhere except in circuits with a dimmer switch. If you use them as porch lights, you will notice they are initially very dim in cold weather, gradually brightening as they warm up. The first CFL’s on the market were quite bulky and wouldn’t fit in most lamp applications but the new very compact CFL’s will fit everywhere. I am using them inside and outside my house.

GE $1 off coupon on Colored CFL lightbulbs