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I’ve written before about how using CFLs can save money & energy, but I just saw that Home Depot is doing a promotion this coming Earth Day (Sunday, April 22nd). They’re giving away a total of one million compact fluorescent light bulbs across the continental United States on that day.

If you haven’t yet given CFLs a try, this is a great risk-free way to try them out. (And if for some reason you decide they’re not for you, please give them to a friend or neighbor who might be interested.) I won’t be stopping in for a free light bulb myself, because we already have enough for our house thanks to the last Lowe’s rebate, but I can’t encourage you enough to give CFLs a try.

Older complaints about the light being too harsh have been resolved — we haven’t noticed that at all. And they’re especially wonderful if you live in a warm climate, because they don’t put out the heat the way other bulbs do. When I first did the change over to CFLs, I’d thought that I would wait until the old bulbs burned out. Then I decided that it was actually less wasteful for me to take out the old bulbs NOW and replace them with the compact fluorescents, so I did a pack a month until they were replaced.

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