Flaming torches
CFLs
Point taken. I have a habit of using the word “rheostat” to , incorrectly, refer to any dimmer control device. It does get the point a cross, though, without having to say “electronic dimmer control device”. We southerners value our syllables far to much to waste them. 
Heck, you probably claim to “dial” a phone, rather than saying ‘initiate a touch-tone connection signal’ as is proper. 
When I was working in stage lighting, we just called them “dimmers”. Covering any of several generations of technology, from variable transformers to various electronic dimmers.
I did once play with actual rheostat dimmers, in an old municipal theatre. They were huge things built into a wall on the side of backstage (like this). It was quite an exercise workout to move those rheostats, especially a bunch of them at once. And it was like a sauna at the end of a production – note the big ventilation grill right at your feet. I’d guess the lighting crew could lose several pounds by the end of a show!
The Daily Telegraph has an article on how much money one couple saved by switching to LED bulbs from halogen bulbs.
Bumpdating my partial zombie thread. I wish I had followed the advice to get quality LED bulbs. I put 4 cheap ones in a ceiling fan and 3 of them have gone out already. I used better bulbs in the rest of the house and they’ve worked great.
All CFLs for the last 10 years ( Britain ), it doesn’t appear cost effective to change from CFL to LED.
What I utterly loathed about incandescents my whole life was the warm friendly golden glow, particularly noticeable looking at windows from outside at night.
So I used to buy crafts bulbs, Daylight type. That got expensive real fast, as they only lasted a few months each.
I filled my house with CFL bulbs back in '03-‘04. The only ones that burned out with less than ten years’ use were super cheap ones I bought at flea markets and fly-by night dollar stores. A couple in the bathroom did burn out after ten years, so they lasted as advertised. I have since replaced all of them with LED bulbs since they’re down to about $1.50 for 60 W equivalent ones. Now I have a bunch of still functioning CFLs I don’t know what to do with.
Pull chains … only the bathroom has an actual switch … 23W CFLs … oh, one light fixture that I have to unscrew the bulb to turn off … someday I’ll get the pull chain fixed …
About a equal mix of incandescent, halogen, CF and LED _How that happened…
Original I made a hard switch to CF, which I realized was a big mistake so reinstalled the IC bulbs. I ended up with a large surplus of CF bulbs.
To get some energy savings I switched some to halogen, which I like equal to IC.
I also reinstalled a few CF jsut to use them up in areas that it doesn’t matter much and I am waiting for them to die.
Finally bought some LED’s which work fine, but also waiting for cost to drop, as I feel it is cheaper to use other bulbs while waiting for LED’s cost to fall further.
The house just went through an almost total redo, so all the lighting is now LED, indoor and out.
When I bought my house 2013 one of the first things I did was change all the lighting to LED.
Switched to LEDs over 5 years ago. Hardly ever replaced any. I always get the daylight versions. Like the blueish light even though I’ve read they may not be good for the eyes.
100% incandescent. And staying that way as long as I can. I despise the look of CFLS and of LEDs.
I have tried buying supposed high quality LEDs. Whether dimmable or not, and regardless of which color temperature I buy the light is simply bad.
I do not like them Sam I am.
I have a mix. I started replacing incandescents with CFLs but now I’m done with those and going to LEDs. So now I have all three types. As I continue to replace burned-out bulbs it will eventually be all LED.
We’ve switched to LEDs in almost all rooms (I think my daughter’s bedroom is the only exception). I also have a few Philips Hue bulbs in the living room (3 white and 3 colour). I will be adding 3 more colour to the living room and putting the white ones in the kitchen over the next year or so.
We’ve got a mix of everything: some LEDs, some CFLs, some old-style tube flourescents, some incandescents.
My wife still likes the incandescents, so that’s what we have in certain places around the house. And in other parts of the house, it’s mostly CFLs that are gonna take years to burn out before I can replace them with LEDs. So I’m bringing in LEDs as fast as I can, but that’s not very fast.
I am now nearly 100% LED; I have a few fluorescent fixtures that code required for a bit that are inconvenient to replace.
I skipped the whole CFL craze on my own house, but in my rental in China, there wasn’t really a choice. Incandescents simply weren’t available, even in lower wattages, nor were LED bulbs anywhere to be found. And CFL’s universally suck. I’m pretty happy with the higher-end LED’s that are available here and now, though.
I even replaced the incandescent 5W night-light bulb in the bathroom fixture with a 0.7W LED! My wife forgets to turn it off during the day, and as it’s a fixture it’s switched rather than light sensitive.
I’m almost completely LED, as well. I don’t think there’s any incandescents in this house, minus maybe a small utility light of some sort. There are a number of halogens, though. No CFCs left, once LEDs got cheap, I replaced them all. I love the LED light, and buy the “soft white” type (which is a very warm white, 2700K, only slightly less warm than a standard incandescent.) I have no nostalgia left for incandescents. I did during the first wave of CFCs, but they got better, and the LEDs are just perfect for me. No complaints whatsoever.
We have a few incandescents in less-used fixtures - like the garage and our closet. Everything else, we’ve switched first to CFL and as those go, we replace them with LED.
I must say, the early LED bulbs did NOT have as long a life as they were “supposed” to. I have a lamp that I use routinely where it lasted just a bit over a year. We’ll see how the replacement does.
We had a similar problem with early CFLs - we had to replace the recessed lights in our kitchen very frequently at first.