I put these questions to the test. Join me after the break for some background on the light bulb cartel from the days of incandescent bulbs (not a joke, a cartel controlled the life of your bulbs ...

There are still practitioners of course, like [2SC1815] who is learning how to make homemade incandescent light bulbs. The Instructable is in both English and Japanese, and the process is ...

They've had a good long run, 134 years, but come January most screw-in incandescent lightbulbs will have been phased out because they use too much energy. There's no need to hoard bulbs.