Am I alone or does anyone else feel ripped off when buying 7w bulbs for landscape lites? I paid about $1 each at Lowes the other day. Is there a better way?
You get out of life what you put into it……minus taxes.
Marv
Am I alone or does anyone else feel ripped off when buying 7w bulbs for landscape lites? I paid about $1 each at Lowes the other day. Is there a better way?
You get out of life what you put into it……minus taxes.
Marv
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Boy, I had a similar shock yesterday - $ 7.99 for a gallon of Coleman camp fuel at K-Mart. I didn't buy it - it's just white gas with a little stabilizer in it. I have noticed that everyone has gone to propane camp fuels for lanterns and stoves, but I love my old Coleman lanterns.
Greg
pour regular gas thru a carbon filter or a stack of tightly folded old towels..
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Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Buy an MSR Whisperlite Internationale -- will burn just about anything.
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt. --Otto von Bismarck
already there...
mutifuel is the only way to go....
if it's liquid and will burn.. got a handel on on it..
prefer the age old fire thing...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
use super unleaded...."Dogs don't follow an emotional leader. They follow the dominant leader. We are the only species that follows an unstable leader. "
Cesar Millan, The Dog Whisperer, in an interview in National Geographic Magazine
Some of them are identical to automotive bulbs.
car dash bulbs...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I paid about $1 each at Lowes the other day. Is there a better way?
Probably not, short of starting up a landscape lighting company so that you'd be able to get a volume discount. (Note, just like the cattle biz, the best way to have a million in the landscape lighting biz is to start with two . . . )
You want real misery--have the bulbs start to pop because some previous Einstein has left a "good enough" uh-oh in the wiring to only slowly kill the transformer. One dollar bulbs are cheap next to that $70-80 transformer a person "ought" to get.
(Especially when it's never just the xfmr, you'll need wires, new couplers; oh, and wouldn't one of [these] be perfect [there]? . . . <ugh>)
I think I pay $2.68 for a 4pak at Wally World .
I get about six months out of them ...dusk to dawn
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.Wer ist jetzt der Idiot
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as a matter of fact....
BIG LOTS has em... 7watt and 12 watt pack of 10 for... $1 i use em on my dock and keep about 30 for spares... going to the 12 watt really helps...
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Thanks for the tips guys!You get out of life what you put into it......minus taxes.
Marv
BIG LOTS has em... 7watt and 12 watt pack of 10 for... $1
Dang it, no wonder; Our Big Lots went bust not too long ago (it's now an asian market now).Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
We needed a few spare night light bulbs and my DW found a string of Christmas lights with 25 bulbs for $5.00 at the big box. She bought it for the bulbs. That comes to 20¢ each. They may not be the same quality, but even if they last 1/2 as long, they're still a bargain.