# What is the self life of lightsticks?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 24, 2011, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-self-life-of-lightsticks/572437 "2011-02-24T10:26:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-self-life-of-lightsticks/572437/21 "2011-02-26T13:58:33Z")

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> [@elfkin477](#):
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> We had a bunch, and the problem we had wasn’t how long they stayed shining, but the fact that they give off hardly any light. They really do suck.

and the fact that i can’t tell the blue/white wire from the black/yellow wire

did I just fuck up that Abyss allusion?

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