Assuming the existing bulb is a screw-in Type A incandescent bulb, something like this would allow you to unscrew the bulb while remaining someplace safe. And then the same thing can be used to screw in the replacement bulb. And I would recommend using an LED bulb for the replacement, just to minimize how often you have to do this.
Good luck with that. I’ve had to replace a number of LED bulbs already.
Brilliant! Now, how do you remove the glass globe? 
Pellet gun?
That was my first thought also, but I hate picking up broken glass. And it would probably take out the bulb, rendering useless that magnificent tool!
Get good ones.
Hire a handyman?
And that’s assuming that there is a glass globe over the bulb.
Amazon has the exact same problem with listings. I want to find a cheap USB extension cord that’s 6 feet long so I search “Six Feet USB Extension Cord” price low to high.
Now it gives me a bunch of two feet extension cords as the cheapest result because the product range INCLUDES six feet but it only takes into account the absolute cheapest cord to show up first which is always going to be less than six feet.
And now I can’t remember what it was, but there was some item I was looking for that cost like $50, but there was some dinky accessory for it that cost $0.50, and the search results were dominated by the accessory.
That might be the problem. I’m broke, I buy cheap ones.
That sounds like a Vimes’ Boots situation.
I always thought that was code for “German Engineer”
maybe the same troop of clowns that run aliexpress? … my pet-peeve there (car-analogy-ahead):
there is a photo of a Lexus Luxury car for $20,000.- … you click on it and there are 10 types of cars in this listing, and of course the $20k is for the Toyota Yaris - not the Lexus (which costs $80k)… completely useless to find something in an orderly fashion.
otoh: have you tried limiting a google search to Etsy? “fabric site:www.etsy.com” → and then when you get the results you go to “images” and have prices …
Philips or Cree are your friends … for those hard to reach spots I go premium producer … also they tend to be nicer hues of light (irregardless of color temp → check for higher than 80 CRI)
… those cheap chinese brands often make light that makes your living space look like a morgue or so …and fail way more often …
I have to admit I’ve put very little effort into actually solving this problem over the past decade, but that’s an interesting (and somehow still a little terrifying) solution. I’ve thought that something like this must exist but I’ve never looked into it.
There’s a separate light at both the top and bottom of these stairs so it really isn’t something we are bothered by unless we stop to think about it.
The day I commit to fixing it I’ll remember this though! Thanks!
I’ve learned to search google first. It will give you the amazon listing you’re wishing you could find. Usually as the top result.
Saves me sooo much time!
I have to figure that Amazon’s search results are deliberately broken for some reason.
They return all sorts of garbage that’s either tangentially related or just similar, and gum up the utility of your search.
For example, by my way of thinking, if I search for “Proraso aftershave balm”, that would be either a string search for that full string (“Proraso aftershave balm”), or it would be a search for items that have all three of the words in some combination. So I’d get either the set of items where the description, tags, or title has the exact string “Proraso aftershave balm”, or I’d get the set of items that have the word “Proraso”, and the word “Aftershave”, and the word “Balm” somewhere in there.
What I shouldn’t get is an “OR” operation, which is what Amazon seems to do a lot of the time. I’ll get all sorts of other Proraso items, all sorts of other aftershave items, and all sorts of “balms” listed in the returned results, with the most likely matches (i.e. all three words) listed first. But not always- sometimes there’s more on the second or third page.
It’s frustrating as hell- if I’m searching for a T25 Torx screwdriver, I don’t want or need flathead, Philips, Robertson screwdrivers listed, and nor do I need T10 Torx, T30 Torx, or any other size. Maybe I might like to see sets that include T25 Torx drivers, but that’s a big maybe. Amazon will show you all that and some more nonsensical stuff besides.
A lot of what you are getting are products that paid Amazon to be shown when someone is searching for “Proraso” or “aftershave” or “balm” or “aftershave balm” or etc. Supposedly this is the first two pages or so of results.
This has the nice side effect of requiring Proraso to pay Amazon to boost their product in search results for their product.
Enshittification at work for sure. It’s no longer about letting me find and buy the product I want, it’s about prying more money out of the vendor to provide better search results.
I don’t have a problem with vendors paying more to put their results at the top of searches, but I do have a problem with them wanting their results at the top of tangentially related searches- if I’m looking for Proraso aftershave balm, I don’t want someone else’s aftershave balm, nor do I want Proraso Beard Balm to show up either. They just lower the signal to noise ratio on the search and make it frustrating, rather than make it easier to find what I’m looking for and buy it.
As an experiment, I tried searching Amazon just now for Proraso aftershave balm (with my browser in incognito mode, so my past history wouldn’t affect the results).
Most of the first 20 or so results that came up were either Proraso After Shave Balm or Proraso After Shave Lotion, but some of these were marked as “Sponsored,” which may well mean that Prosaro paid Amazon, as @echoreply suggested. After this came a bunch of less exact matches (like after shave balm that wasn’t Proraso, and Proraso products that weren’t aftershave balm). Some of these were “Sponsored” and some were not.
I have no problem with Amazon returning these other partial matches after the more exact matches. If Amazon had limited the results to only exact matches, I might not have gotten anything, since the product is listed as “After Shave” (two words) instead of “Aftershave.” And I’m sure plenty of Amazon customers search for what they want without knowing the exact correct words.
The funniest search result I ever had was back in the AltaVista days. There was a piece of software we used for research, and I was maybe thinking of getting a copy of it myself. So I searched for it, to see if they had a website selling it. The AltaVista search itself returned zero results… but the banner ad above the “We’re sorry, we couldn’t find any results” page was for the exact thing I was looking for.
(it turned out that an individual license would have cost thousands of dollars, so I didn’t buy it anyway)
Right there in the third row, I start seeing shave cream, beard balm, and something called exfoliating beard paste and facial scrub. And aftershave splash/lotion, but not balm shows up in the third result. even if it’s sponsored.
Granted all are Proraso brand, but by the end of the first page, I’m getting returns that aren’t Proraso, aren’t aftershave, and aren’t balm. Something like Van Der Hagen Shaving Soap has no place being returned for that search on the first page.