Light Bulbs- sounds boring but......

The LED bulbs do come on straight away.

And they last so much longer than the old ones.

I just want a light that comes on straight away without any delay

I have problems changing bulbs as I am no longer nimble on my feet re ladders so I am more than happy to have a 10 year gap between changing some!

You can still buy old fashioned bulbs on the internet, I don't like these new ones, turn them on and wait for them, why?

TriciaF LED (Light Emitting Diode) bulbs come in warm white as wellas that cold blue light. I accidentally bought the wrong kind and ending up having to freegle the ice white ones when we bought the warm white ones.

We bought a ceiling fan with triple lights on it, on line, when it came the "bulbs" were tiny little things that don`t even look like light bulbs, they`re less than an inch long, cost a lot, and don`t last very long at all. Bring back PROPER bulbs!

Cheap? I pay about a fiver each for mine, although as tanith says, they last for ages.

A few months ago I found an old fashioned red bulb in a cupboard but decided to get rid of it as people may think that I am setting up a knocking shop here!

Most of my bulbs will last for 10 years, some may see me out but I agree, it is very confusing.

Husband bought a whole lot of those LED bulbs, because they were cheap.
I don't like them at all, they give a really cold bluish light, everything looks ill.

We replaced all our bulbs last year with LEDs but we don't need to keep many spares as they last far longer, years in fact so you shouldn't need to change them for a long time.. They do light up instantly unlike energy saving bulbs and we've noticed our electricity use has gone down since we installed them.

We never seem to have the correct replacement to hand when a bulb goes, despite having a drawer full of different fittings and wattages, which is now overflowing into a second drawer. Oh for the days when a 40/60/100 watt bulb covered all eventualities!

Yes it does but not much use if one cannot read it clearly ,

Well it usually tells you on the outside of the pack.

The one I'm looking at says '5w (traditional 30w)', which I know isn't quite right, we really want the old 40w, but I haven't found a problem with them.

I don't want coloured bulbs, what I do want, REALY WANT, is to buy 40W. 60W. 100W. 150W , fed up of having to find out what 7W and 11W is the equivalent of

I buy mine from Asda, warm white and whichever number of lumens matches up to the wattage I need.

The LED bulbs are much better than those awful chunky things that took a while to get going and gave rather a cold light.

You can buy LED in warm white and ice white. The ice white is rather clinical and cold, so we buy warm white...haven't seen them in pastel colours though. DH buys them from his favourite shop, Screwfix.

I agree oldgoose, the style, wattage, colour (or lack of), all very confusing. Bring back our old dependable bulbs I say. We find much of the world confusing nowadays. Years ago you bought a pillow, it worked, supported your head whilst sleeping, didn't need a huge choice to confuse matters. Nowadays there is such a huge choice of pillows it can take many wrong purchases before finding one that does the job.

You can buy colour changing LED lights not sure about individual colour bulbs though. Ebay and Amazon do them I believe.