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Free Lightbulbs?

Lavander
Lavander Posts: 20 Forumite
in In my home (includes DIY) MoneySaving
I have no idea if this is the right forum to post this, apologies in advance if I have got it wrong.
My MIL told me you could get free energy saving lightbulbs from your local service point....does anyone know if this is true??
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  • 27col
    27col Posts: 6,554 Forumite
    What's a service point.
    I can afford anything that I want.
    Just so long as I don't want much.
  • Lavander
    Lavander Posts: 20 Forumite
    Like....your local council, you know...where council tenants go to complain, report a fault in the property, sort the rent etc. Sorry, I call them service points.
  • diable
    diable Posts: 5,258 Forumite
    I have a load of unused ones in a box in the loft that I could donate as they are absolute sh1te............
  • Owain_Moneysaver
    Owain_Moneysaver Posts: 11,393 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Maybe your MIL can get them from her local service point.

    However most of the subsidies for free or 10p lightbulbs have stopped now.
    A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.
  • iamcornholio
    iamcornholio Posts: 1,900 Forumite
    Lavander wrote: »
    Like....your local council, you know...where council tenants go to complain,

    It will be a big queue then and and long wait, just for a lightbulb
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    Basic energy saving light bulbs, the sticks, are pretty cheap and available at most DIY sheds.
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • maninthestreet
    maninthestreet Posts: 16,127 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    Lavander wrote: »
    Like....your local council, you know...where council tenants go to complain, report a fault in the property, sort the rent etc. Sorry, I call them service points.

    Sorry, we're mainly property-owning capitalists here, so we wouldn't know anything about those sort of things.
    "You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"
  • Mr_Ted
    Mr_Ted Posts: 1,067 Forumite
    maninthestreet wrote: »
    Sorry, we're mainly property-owning capitalists here, so we wouldn't know anything about those sort of things.

    :T:rotfl:YEP, otherwise known as Tight Ar**s ;)
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  • 27col
    27col Posts: 6,554 Forumite
    Mr_Ted wrote: »
    :T:rotfl:YEP, otherwise known as Tight Ar**s ;)
    No, not tight ar**s. Just people who believe in paying their own way and providing for themselves without the assistance of a Nanny State.
    I can afford anything that I want.
    Just so long as I don't want much.
  • Mr_Ted
    Mr_Ted Posts: 1,067 Forumite
    27col wrote: »
    No, not tight ar**s. Just people who believe in paying their own way and providing for themselves without the assistance of a Nanny State.

    :T Bigot :eek:

    Hope you never have the misfortune to need the "Nanny State", and before you ask I guarantee your WRONG!
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