Giveaway: Greenlite Environmentally Friendly Light Bulbs
April 23, 2008 by Deborah Ng
Filed under Contests and Giveaways
Now here’s a product I can really get behind. The Greenlite lighting company has offered three winners an environmentally friendly light bulb.
I can’t sing the praises of this product enough. Each Energy Star rated bulb may cost more at the checkout, but they last five to eleven times longer than your average 60 watter. The best part is, they only use 30% of the energy.
I screwed one of these puppies into a lamp yesterday and it works just fine. Some of the eco-friendly bulbs can be rather long and therefore hang out above or below the lamp or fixture. I like the Greenlite bulbs because they’re not too big at all. I used the 18 watt bulb and it was fine for my needs, especially since it has a 75 Watt output. In fact, I’ve slowly been replacing all my regular bulbs with those that are more environmentally friendly.
Would you like to win a Greenlite 18 watt environmentally friendly lightbulb? Here’s what you have to do…
You know how I say everything has two uses? Tell me what are some of the things you find more than one use for. For instance, newspapers are for reading, but you can also use them for mulch. My three favorite responses get the bulbs. You have until Sunday night.
Good luck! I hope you’re enjoying the Bloggy Giveaways this week! I sure enjoy bringing them to you.
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Hi, Eggshells ground up are great for flowers, you can ply Legos loose with a nail file and empty drywall buckets that you add a spout to makes a great way refill for water guns and balloons. You don’t waste nearly as much water. Thanks,Cindi
Milk jugs – first we drink the milk, and then my husband fills them with water hangs them from a tree in our backyard. My kids use them as moving targets for their BB guns! They can see when they’ve hit them because the water starts to run out. We then recycle the jugs!
The waxy cereal bags have a multitude of uses. Flattening or pounding meat. Crushing cracker crumbs. Storing green leafies in the fridge to keep them fresh. Cutting into a flat sheet and using them to roll cookie dough into logs. Using the flat sheet as a drop sheet for cookies. Using the flat sheet as a play doh mat. Use as a bag to throw stuff in the trash that is messy or wet (like bones). Doggie poo-poo pick up bags. Laying the bag on the counter as a place to put meat packages or other stuff heading to the trash. Cover food in microwave.
Wear as a hat?
Newspapers for window cleaning, also make logs out of them for the fireplace, vinegar for cleaning.
I like to use cereal boxes and other empty boxes to help me organize. Cover them with white contact paper and they look great, too!
Canvas bags have many uses. They can be used for groceries, to go to the gym, as a diaper bag, as a craft bag to go crafting with friends and to carry lunches. I love canvas bags. I’m audreyoka at cox.net
I like to use cereal boxes for magazine storage. Just cover with some pretty paper.
I keep t-shirts my boys have outgrown under my kitchen sink and use them to wipe up messes rather than using paper towels.
In Canada
– we use compact flu. here because we are off-grid and need to save energy! We use cloth baby wipes for 1. wiping bums and 2. wiping up any sort of spills (not at the same time though!)
And we are having a giveaway for them at our blog until the end of the day, just click on my name
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Baking soda:
Baking
Cleaning
Laundry
My fave all time all purpose item,woohooo!!!
Thanks for the giveaway!!!
I reuse plastic grocery bags to bag things up for donations
I reuse baggies
I reuse plastic grocery bags, plastic sandwich baggies. We use newspapers to clean windows and mirrors, also use mixture of vinegar and water as the cleaning solution. We have been slowly swapping light bulds.
I reuse bags and have bought the green bags from the stores
We recycle, reuse, compost everything we can. I also pick up trash on the road where I live. I starting selling stuff on eBay so other people can use the items.
I recycle cans, plastic bottles, paper, batteries and would love to win this prize as long as these bulbs don’t contain any mercury. The area I live in doesn’t have a hazardous waste recycling facility. People around here just throw those bulbs in the landfill poisoning our ground water.
I save all my egg cartons and use them to start garden seeds in the spring. Great prize! Thanks for the giveaway!
Use a brita filter for you water, not more bottles of plastic in the landfill.
I wrap all birthday gifts in the Sunday comics.
I’m for everything that helps the environment! Thanks for the great contest!
An oldie but a goodie, cardboard boxes are my favorite multi use items. I use them to get the initial purchase home, keep some in the trunk to transfer groceries into so that I don’t run out of my homemade cloth shopping bags, use them for moving (in the past for other people, and soon for me!), and then turn them over to my grandkids to use as trains or spaceships, before using them as a mulch layer in my ‘lasagna’ style planting beds. (I’ve had very good luck keeping weeds down this way)
I am selling my house will every light fitted with a cfl bulb, but I have never been able to find the really small wattage, so this sounds really great. Thanks for doing this!
I try to always remember to turn lights off in rooms I’m not using.
I recycle everything I can, donate old clothing and household items to my local Head Start program, give some away on Freecycle or Reuseit, and the stuff I can’t part with gets put up in the attic for my kids to go through when I am no longer on this planet. Seriously I am a packrat!
There’s a great website available to anyone across the country. It’s http://www.freecycle.org. You give away usable items that you would normally throw away. That way they stay out of the landfill!
Everyone should use these to reduce oil consumption.
i reuse holy socks as rags for cleaning instead of just throwing them away
Great giveaway! I hope i’m the lucky winner!
I use fabric softener sheets to ward off gnats, just put one in your shirt pocket or hanging out the neck or sleeve. It works great without toxic poisons! I also wash out old two liter bottles to store cold water in the fridge.
Those annoying styrofoam peanuts that are used in packaging are great for re-using as packaging but I also put them in my outside pots. I fill the pots about halfway with the peanuts and then put dirt on top of that. I don’t have to use as much soil in the pot and they are great for drainage as well.
I buy Method products (no harsh anything), compost kitchen scraps and use in my garden, recycle all my paper, give to thrift shops things I can’t use, buy furniture from IKEA (no harsh glues or fumes there), use a green plug, plant lots of organic plants, fill a water bottle and put it in the tank to use less water, I re-use bags for garbage, presents, stinky diapers, I buy chlorine free diapers, etc.
How about vinegar & it’s 150,000 uses? lol My fav use for it is fabric softener. I wouldn’t use anything else even if it was free!
Old tired nylon stockings? I use them to tie up my tomato plants…they are stretchy and give so the plant has room to grow!
We use freecyle to get things we need and pass on things that we no longer use so less lands in the dump
Reuse newspaper to clean mirrors and any glass. Also use the funny pages as wrapping paper
I take reusable bags to Wal*Mart with me when I go grocery shopping.
Comics make great wrapping paper!
Now that we are in a house we are recycling almost everything and have energy efficient bulbs in most, but not all rooms. I plan on replacing the appliances with the most energy efficient models as soon as possible. We are also going to grow our own vegetables.
My daughter packs her lunch for school, so instead of using Ziploc bags for her sandwiches, I bought a reusable sandwich container. Also, I don’t even buy paper plates or plastic forks or spoons, I just send her with a spoon from the house, and she brings it home at the end of the day. Oh yeah, and I try not to buy too much papertowel, because if it’s not in the house, people will use the cloth napkins.
I reuse all packing material
All magazines are donated and then recycled.
I am a paper crafter and today I got an adorable thank you card in the mail from a baby shower. Instead of throwing it away, as I may have normally done, I cut out the cute little creature on the front to use in a scrapbook page, card or calendar. I also make book marks out of cards that are sent to me.
Another thing I do for my classroom is reuse those CD samples you get in the mail. I attach a ribbon to them and write my name and classroom on them. We use them for bathroom passes and hall passes for my classroom! They work great and its not a big deal if one gets lost or broken.
Cloth Baby Diapers!
Not only are they a great alternative to the disposable kind that fill up the landfills, but they have soooo many other uses! After you no longer need them for baby, clean them up and use them for your little girls baby dolls. They also make excellent dust cloths and cleaning cloths since they are lint free!
I reuse metal clothes hangers in my garden to help my plants grow straight.
Coffee filters for covering food in the microwave and catching splatters…also slip one under a popsicle or paintbrush to catch drips.
Cereal boxes can be made into magazine holders and the inside wax wrap for sticky dishes like making Rice Krispie treats or when drizzling melted chocolate onto pretzels or fruit…it easily comes off.
Oh and last the great trick of getting wax out of carpet by laying down a brown paper bag over it and ironing it into the paper.
Old pantyhose are great for staking plants. I recently found bacon in a snap tight container and used the empty container for deli sliced lunch meat.
i use comics magazines and maps to wrap packages..
recycley grocery bags
Less toilet flushes when possible
After finishing up the Altoid Sours (the ones that come in a round tin, they make an awesome storage for PSP games. Since the cartridges are so small, it’s nice to have something to put them in so that they aren’t lost (they are far too expensive).
All Altoid tins can be used for several things. I like to keep needle and thread and a few extra buttons as a travel size sewing kit. Also a travel sized first aid kit with a few Band-Aids, small anti-bacterial cream, and OTC medicines.
Thanks for the giveaway!
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Cut used T-shirts into cleaning rags, saves on paper towels.
I use old sheets to make curtains and new skirts and dresses