Do you put the Big Light on?💡

Rosie_Scope
Rosie_Scope Posts: 9,775 Online Community Team
in Coffee lounge

By the 'Big Light' I mean the ceiling light, rather than smaller table or standing lamps scattered across the room.

I think it should only be reserved for special occasions. For example, if you need to see well to do the ironing or need to find something you've dropped on the floor.

But my partner will quite happily sit for a relaxing evening under the power of the full Big Light experience. Not for me!

Are you a Big Light person? Or if not, do you think there are occasions where the Big Light is justified?

Do you put the Big Light on?💡 24 votes

Yes to the Big Light
29%
kreacherRoss1975HopelessChrisR777egiste2rRag_793[Deleted User] 7 votes
Little lamps only please
58%
Richard_ScopeLuchiaAmberpearlJessieJScooby222WhatTheRosie_ScopeMary_ScopeRachel_ScopeBluebell21Johnboy412000justj74DynamisanteEpistle_Rich 14 votes
I prefer to sit in the dark
8%
OverlyAnxiousMissMarple 2 votes
Something else
4%
Anhedonia2 1 vote
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  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 6,436 Championing
    edited October 2
    Little lamps only please

    Never ever ever! And it's little lamp, singular.

    Obviously, if somebody's here then I'll have to manage their requirements 🙄 but that's not often these days 😁

  • Johnboy412000
    Johnboy412000 Community Member Posts: 810 Empowering
    Little lamps only please

    Usually the table lamp is enough for me in the evening. It's a touch one with 3 settings and I have it on low setting.

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 2,114 Championing
    Yes to the Big Light

    The light goes on for me coming back in from a Gus walk. I have a mobility scooter to bring into the living room via patio doors, after I have cleaned the tyres with a screwdriver and toothbrush (I wear a head torch to attend to the scooter in the back garden).

    I have a small lamp next to my hospital bed, in the middle of the living room, but otherwise I only have the ceiling lights available to me.

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 9,775 Online Community Team
    edited October 16
    Little lamps only please

    This is more split than I was expecting! Interesting, very interesting 🤔

    I could probably accept a dimmer switch @[Deleted User], that sounds like a good compromise. How bright do you usally have it?

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Community Member Posts: 6,488 Championing
    I prefer to sit in the dark

    I don't have any additional lights. So big light on to eat dinner during winter months. But I sit in the dark with the TV on after dinner.

  • Rag_793
    Rag_793 Community Member Posts: 825 Empowering
    Yes to the Big Light
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    I put the big lights on in the hall and a lamp in the living room. Both are smart bulbs which come on and go off at set times. I have a salt lamp on at all times of the day, never switch it off. I also have a small led plug in solar light in the corner as well.

  • Johnboy412000
    Johnboy412000 Community Member Posts: 810 Empowering
    Little lamps only please

    I'm a firm believer in only putting a light on in the kitchen or bathroom and turning off when not in use. What's the point in having the place like Blackpool Illuminations and wasting electric. Small lamp is enough for me when watching telly.

  • justj74
    justj74 Community Member Posts: 168 Contributor
    Little lamps only please

    Lots of little lamps here, but I must have the big light when I’m cooking

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 2,114 Championing
    edited October 2
    Yes to the Big Light

    I think we can tell the telly watchers from the readers here! Also who does or doesn't darn their holey socks. 🤣

  • Anhedonia2
    Anhedonia2 Community Member Posts: 447 Empowering
    edited October 16
    Something else

    I don't even notice, my daughter is particular about it and will often come into whatever room I'm in and change the lighting. I'll be sat reading in the dark until I'm squinting at the pages and not think to turn on the light 😅

    @[Deleted User] I always thought dimmer switches were the height of sophistication, my friend had them when I was young and I was certain she must be extremely rich 🤣

  • Anhedonia2
    Anhedonia2 Community Member Posts: 447 Empowering
    Something else

    @Rag_793 hahaha you reminded me of my dad always saying that, he'd come down the stairs muttering about lights with the classic "Bl***y Blackpool alluminations in here!"

  • Anhedonia2
    Anhedonia2 Community Member Posts: 447 Empowering
    Something else
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1151680#Comment_1151680

    What about those of us who read regularly but wouldn't know how to begin to darn a holey sock?!

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 6,493 Championing
    Little lamps only please

    I did not know anyone darned holey socks anymore @ChrisR777 I thought they just bought new ones.

  • Rag_793
    Rag_793 Community Member Posts: 825 Empowering
    Yes to the Big Light
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    Blackpool Illuminations is up and running 🤣

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 2,114 Championing
    Yes to the Big Light
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1151740#Comment_1151740

    And they say we live in a throw away society. I wonder why? 😉

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 2,114 Championing
    Yes to the Big Light

    @Anhedonia2 - You're no "tradwife" then? 🤣

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Community Member Posts: 4,283 Championing
    Little lamps only please

    Lounge has only a floor lamp.

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Community Member Posts: 6,488 Championing
    I prefer to sit in the dark

    With LED bulbs I doubt the 'big light' uses much electricity nowadays. A floor or table lamp is likely to use the same amount. Using multiple smaller lamps is likely to use more! The colour difference is usually made with filters now, rather than being a big difference in power.

    My own big light uses just 9w…that means it would only cost about 50p a week if left on all day, every day.

    I remember back in the day we had a big light with 5x 60w conventional filament bulbs in it. That's 300w. Meaning it would use about £15 a week at todays prices! 😲

  • Anhedonia2
    Anhedonia2 Community Member Posts: 447 Empowering
    Something else
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1151759#Comment_1151759

    I'm more of a… well what's the opposite of a Tradwife?

    I actually have a love/hate relationship with the Tradwife lifestyle, in my head I'd love to be able to grow my own food, make everything from scratch and have my own little homestead but I also love convenience and getting to be lazy sometimes 😆 I certainly never learned any of the skills to be able to do it either.

  • Anhedonia2
    Anhedonia2 Community Member Posts: 447 Empowering
    Something else
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1151781#Comment_1151781

    I forgot how different lights used to be! Imagine £15 a week just for your lights 😲

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