Dredging up an old thread here, but I wanted to add to it.....
My wife didn't like the looks of the curly-que CFL's I put in our house when we built it, so we put decorator style (big globe) 60w incandescents in both bathroom vanity fixtures. That's 6 60w bulbs per fixture. After about a year, I changed them out for all curly-que CFL's. She said she didn't like the looks of them. I said they looked like they were saving money to me. Out with 360x, in with 78w. She grew to not mind the looks of the CFL's and hasn't complained about them since.
When we built this house, in late 2002, we paid almost $9 per bulb for CFL's. We put them in every room except the bathrooms. We even have light fixtures in our (non walk-in) closets. To date, we have only replaced CFL's in our living room ceiling fan. We replaced one tube style bulb in our kitchen fixture about three years ago. I think they are a great bargain :-)
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