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The boys were playing indoor football again... And it was bound to happen, he says looking at them mowing the back yard for me...

Every bulb I use in this house came from one of the best online stores I've seen, not only for usability, but for the sheer numbers and types of GLS and CFL's they stock in their e-shop. 

I've just used my last spare bulb and on visiting the site, I see they stock a lot more items than when I last visited.

I spent ages looking for a new bulb for the oven a few weeks back and in the end gave up. None of the stores round here stocked one, and the guy in B&Q even tried to convince me that they "don't make em' like that anymore, can I interest you in a new oven sir..."

Having just logged into the ebulb shop, they jumped out at me, and low and behold, my lamp is the second one down on the list.  Looks like I'll be ordering a couple of them as well.  ebulb is just that... it's not just CFL's, I reckon if you get light from it, they'll stock it.

You can tell its been a few months (years??) since I last checked that site.  I've just spent a good while looking at all the new stuff they stock.

Never ever buy a bulb from your supermarket or dare I say your local DIY shop.  Even if they are non-filament type, I don't have any faith that they haven't been throwing around the boxes that the bulbs were supplied in.
A few weeks back when I was away, my wife bought two new bulbs from a large well known supermarket and both bulbs were broken, when she went back to change them, she found that most of the bulbs on the shelves were damaged in some way.  It was like someone had been playing football with them, (and no, my two boys were not with her).
She didn't realise I had a box of spares out in the garage (which was the original box supplied from ebulbshop.
That's the other thing about buying from a specialist. They not only can give you the best advice on which product you need, they also know how to look after the product right up until it reaches your front door. 

Now mention coupons in the UK and you get looked at like some pauper wanting a freeby or a handout. But not many people realize how much you can save with them and without having to pay a month fee to do so.
(For example, all nurses get given coupon books with their union membership, but most just throw it away without a second glance, and some of the deals are amazing...So go marry a nurse.. I did ;) )

Add to that many people in the UK don't bother with a store club card (like your Tesco's card), or if they do, they hardly every get round to spending any points that they accrue on them.

But in the US, I was given a link to the Coupon Chief site and at first dismissed it as per usual (being a Brit Expat). That was until he told me how much he has just saved on a brand new PC he'd bought from Dell with a discount coupon he had obtained from Coupon Chief.

Well my mate has just rung me to say that he was just about to spend a fortune at Bed Bath and Beyond, and remember the Coupon Chief and went and had a look at their Home and Garden section and just by entering their coupon code a the BedBathBeyond web site got an instant 20% off and free delivery.

And that's the thing with the Coupon Chief site, you don't need to be a member, you don't pay anything to them to join up (because you don't and can't join).  I guess that they get all of their income from referral fees.

Well my gripe is why don't we have something as good in the UK.  The only reason my mate had mentioned it to me in the first place was I'd just told him what I had just spent on some new furniture, and he told me how much he had paid, and saved by using the Coupon Chief.

In my US house when I first moved to Fort Worth, we had the air conditioning set to 70 degrees or there about.  Being around 100 degrees outside and upon arrival of our first $500 electric bill for the month, the thermostat was quickly set to 82 degrees.

But with the temperature set that high it didn't feel too comfortable at times, mainly because of the humidity.  A colleague of mine suggested fitting ceiling fans which at first I didn't think would help at all.

I used Farrey's as they have a great online catalog to choose a couple of ceiling fans for the main living room. 

The benefits were immediately obvious since despite the the thermostat still being set at 82 degrees you get a cooling effect from the fan which effectively drops the temperature to the low 70's.

After two months of lower electricity bills I decided to fit fans into all of the other rooms, so choosing the right fans was important. Farrey's have a great system to for selecting, configuring and ordering the right system and their search tool is one of the best I've used.

I've just helped a friend select and install a new fans in his house and he used Farrey's and he was impressed as I was.
They now have an even greater selection including fanimation,monte carlo fans, minka aire fans any many more.