Anyways, this purchase sucks. I don't understand it exactly but I thought it was one of those lights or something you wear on your head when you're going coal-mining. Which, well, isn't a regular activity of ours. Turns out we had to hook it up to the electric meter outside while risking life and limb, dodging dive-bombing bees and neighborhood So then if you're a
Joe: OMG, what did you just turn on?Ten minutes later -
me: The lights in the bathroom.
Joe: They made it jump to 14!!!
me: What do you want me to do, shower in the dark?
Joe: Let me replace those bulbs.
me: The energy efficient ones are ugly in these fixtures!
Joe: OMG, what are you doing?Any advice how to accidentally dismantle this thing undetected? It may save my marriage. Or at least my legs because I'm not that good at shaving unassisted by the magical powers of sight.
me: Drying my hair?
Joe: MAKE IT STOP!!!
PS - I'm mostly kidding because I <3 my husband
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OMGosh, my husband is ABSOLUTELY not allowed to know of this device's existence. We'd be living in the dark ages by noon. Ugh.
I'm totally going to have to buy him one for his birthday. damn
My husband decided to get a device that showed how much electricity we were using. He was quite convinced it was the domestic machinesr that were consuming so much. Guilt trip for me until it turned out it was his technology that was greedy, not mine. Smug, me?
Bear with it - it's a boy's toy and the fascination will only last until another gadget comes along!
oh yeah. I don't want that at my house. Our electric company (and maybe they all do) gives a little bar graph of usage with each bill. It shows the entire year of use, and then gives data on this month, last month, and this month last year.
I'm so neurotic about that, I can't imagine what a minute by minute account would do to me.
I miss you. I've been super incommunicado lately. I have no excuse other than they are making me work at work and I never get on the computer at home. I'm still here, hanging on your words...
This post made me laugh. Occasionally my husband turns the lights off . . . while I'm using them. But I don't think he would go so far as to get that little device . . . let's hope.
i totally giggled at your "fugly".
that is such an under used word.
good for joe.
but i'd start plugging shit in all surreptitiously and then be like "i have NO idea what could be doing that".
andrea
I have just found the perfect gift for my annoying 9 yr old. (A member of the Green Police.) I'll give it to him before he goes to my MIL's.
Yeah, if my hub (the electrical engineer) knew about this, I'd be toast, except, you know, with the toaster unplugged... But HE'S the one who always leaves the lights on, and I'm behind him, turning them off...
But I came by to say that I have just awarded you the sacred "Kreative Blogger" award! Thanks for all the great posts!
If you like I could 'borrow' it to go spelunking?
I sure hope it's made out of recycled tires & is solar powered.
My hubster tried to change the light in my get ready room to one of those dark dreary energy efficient light bulbs, when I came out in the morning with mascara on my eyebrows, he agreed that I could use a REAL light bulb!
FTR... I am male... and I own a killawatt... it is unplugged and on a shelf....
until I finish my EV....
But I refuse to go around the house with it anymore.. too scary.
How about a trade-off. You get to keep the pretty lights where you want, and you promise to shorten the shower time.
If he doesn't go for that, then pull out the trump card......."back off the extreme green thing, or you're cut off".
Either way, give it time. Like any boy with his new toy, he'll soon tire of it.
I would actually be in the one in my house getting it...to prove to my hub that he eats electricity like I eat cookies. He's forever talking about how little power he uses compared to us.
I totally back you on this one, Cate. I will not endure an ugly bulb just for the sake of the planet. I will, however, keep in mind the visibility of the bulb itself when I go to replace the fixture.
My husband is the total opposite. He thinks all of this going green is a lot of, uhm b******t. He hardly ever remembers to turn off a light,unless I am yelling at him. He does not believe in global warming, if you can believe that.
Will he notice if a hammer accidentally makes it's way to that area and falls on it?
Maybe you have kids or a dog or ones that you could borrow that inadvertently get a hold of this device?
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Don't ever tell anybody I said this, but I don't mind the way they look so much as the fact that it takes them forty million years to come to full-on brightness. Pttthtt on that.
I was barely halfway through reading the comments when I laughed out loud at Princess Andy's idea. I love that! My bf has issues with the cleanliness of the house not so much with the electric bill (somehow I manage to keep that pretty low, no idea what I'm doing though). I've learned that if I feel like being lazy I can pour bleach down the drains and spray cleaner (like fabuloso or pinesol) in the air and he will assume I've worked my butt off all day. :)
Thankfully I keep him out of the gadget world when it comes to technology (I'm actually the techy in our family) but when it comes to cleaning products...geeze I think we now own every green product they make! And to be honest half of them dont work well.
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