Light Bulbs, yes Light Bulbs

There must be 8 million types of light bulbs in this world, and our house contains every single kind. 

The problem began when we chose lighting for our house.  It was one of the last cosmetic decisions Troy and I had to make about the house, and we were downright sick and tired of making choices.  It was so hard at that point.  And who knew we needed to know so much information when we went shopping?  Number of can lights, length of bathroom vanities, yada yada yada…

Time out: Here’s where I remind readers of my sarcasticness.  My hubby was prepared with all the numbers.  I was just there to look cute.  Oh and pick out cute lights. 

When we got to Menards it took us so long to decide what to pick that people actually thought we were there to inspect the ceiling!  With stiff necks and tired heads we chose lights, of course not thinking about what light bulbs were necessary.  Who would think about that?  Really hook them up, flip a switch, ta da!

It wasn’t until light bulbs started burning out that we realized the trouble we had gotten ourselves into.  First ones were can lights.  Those are all the same and we must have thousands in the house.  No big deal right?  Wrong, those come in flood or spot, efficient and I suppose not efficient, this wattage, that wattage, these volts, those volts.  Luckily they come in a really big box and Troy bought them.  Problem solved.

Next went out a light in our bedroom. After wrestling with the shade on the fan, etc. come to find out it takes one of those fancy flame looking lights.  Who cares?  If you’re not seeing them why not make them your standard filament or compact florescent?  Really?

But the crem de la crem is the lights in the kids’ rooms.  Mazee’s had a light out for 4 months now and Deegan for who knows how long.  These lights do not contain your regular light bulb with all is normalness.  Instead of the normal sized screwy in part, they require the small screwy in part, the bulbs are round, and they are a 40 watt bulb.  Do you know where you can find such special bulbs?  Not just anywhere my friends.  Wal-mart carries them, but the closest Wal-mart is an hour and a half away!  Seriously!  (well they maybe carry them other places.  It’s not like I spend all my free time checking out locations of my “favorite” light bulbs!)

Changing all these lovely light bulbs is material for another blog at a later date.  So boys and girls, when your kindergarten teacher starts talking about how to build a house be sure to pay attention to the choosing lighting section.  Apparently I missed that day of kindergarten!