All compact fluorescent for the last few years. Not by choice though: incandescents simply disappeared from the supermarket shelves. I’m all for going green, but the incandescents just cast a nicer light, and lighting is only a small component of household power usage anyway. Also, I’ve found the new ones don’t have anything like the lifespan claimed. I get less than a year out of the things, usually, whereas a 70c incandescent would be good for six months, at a tenth of the price - not to mention easier on the environment when the time comes to dispose of them.
I use CFL bulbs because that’s pretty much all I can get. They seem to last forever- I honestly can’t remember the last time I changed a light bulb. After using the same bulb forever I bought a package of CFL bulbs at Ikea and I haven’t opened the package yet- and that was a year ago that I purchased the new bulbs.
I’m not at home a lot so maybe that has to do with the bulbs lasting such a long time since the lamps are off for large portions of the day.
I haven’t noticed a big difference between these bulbs and the old type except that they last longer I guess.
Found a nice going out of business deal, and replaced the whole inside of the house with CFLs last year. I plan to replace them with LEDs as they burn out, as the price drops, and I don’t have to get 200+ dollars at once.
My porch light, deck light, and coach lights are my only IBs left. They are such a pain to replace(the screws are rusted as is a lot of the fixtures) and I’m afraid the next change will require new fixtures. As much as I actually use them they may make 15 more years.
I’m switching over to CFLs as the old bulbs burn out. I refuse to throw out a perfectly good lightbulb just to save a couple of cents a month on my electric bill. I still have few incendescent bulbs: one in the garage, one in the utility room, and maybe one or two more I can’t think of right now. I have a little LED bulb that we use in the nightlight in the bathroom, but we’re not going to be replacing the regular lights with them until LEDs become significantly cheaper.
ETA: We also have a 3-way incendescent in a lamp in the den. CFL bulbs won’t fit in that lamp due to the lamp’s design, so when incendescent bulbs beome unavailable, I’ll probably have to throw away that lamp.
I’m not sure that would work. It’s a torcheire (sp?) style lamp with a very narrow “neck” area. CFLs won’t fit because the base of the bulb is too big, and I don’t know that I’ve seen any LED bulbs whose bases aren’t any bigger than the neck of an incandescent bulb.
Option “4” for me. I genuinely prefer fluorescent to incandescent for indoor lighting. I rent an apartment, and as the pre-existing IBs burn out, I’m replacing them with CFLs. I have LEDs in three sockets, but they haven’t impressed me enough to buy more.
We’re mostly LED, to keep the electrical bills down, and because a lot of them are too high to reach without the big ladder so it’s nice that I won’t have to replace them soon.
But we still have a number of IBs simply because they’re right for the application, like a light hanging from an arc stand that hangs way too low with a heavy bulb, and for personal reading lamps.
We have some CFLs for outdoor floods, but it’s a bad choice because we don’t leave them on long, and they take a long time to get bright. We’d use less juice with IBs!
I’m not a big fan of the light from most LEDs, but we do have some newer ones that are indistinguishable from IBs. In any case, I try to make sure the ones we tend to leave on the most are LEDs.