Reading lamp for the house

[malumbu]

A curse of getting older is not just needing glasses, but better lighting. Every week I get the flyer advertising the perfect reading lamp at ?200-300, and every week I think surely just get some better light bulbs for the lamps we already have (downstairs are all 18 w = 100w equivalent warm LEDs). Surprisingly not found anything on line which directs me to the perfect product. Most of our fittings are standard bayonet.

[malumbu]

Whoops should be in the lounge, please do move admin.

[siousxiesue]

malumbu Wrote:

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> A curse of getting older is not just needing

> glasses, but better lighting. Every week I get

> the flyer advertising the perfect reading lamp at

> ?200-300, and every week I think surely just get

> some better light bulbs for the lamps we already

> have (downstairs are all 18 w = 100w equivalent

> warm LEDs). Surprisingly not found anything on

> line which directs me to the perfect product. Most

> of our fittings are standard bayonet.

Try a daylight bulb, expensive but makes all the difference!

[TheCat]

If was getting flyers for lamps selling for 200-300 quid, my first thought would also be that I needed to get my eyes tested!!!

[Sue]

An optician once told me those very expensive reading lamps you see advertised are a waste of money.

He told me what to get, which I have a note of somewhere, but it was just something ordinary.

I use an IKEA floorstanding Anglepoise-type lamp, and it's fine.

[wordsworth]

Sue Wrote:

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> An optician once told me those very expensive

> reading lamps you see advertised are a waste of

> money.

>

> He told me what to get, which I have a note of

> somewhere, but it was just something ordinary.

>

> I use an IKEA floorstanding Anglepoise-type lamp,

> and it's fine.

Phew

[Sue]

wordsworth Wrote:

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> Sue Wrote:

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> > An optician once told me those very expensive

> > reading lamps you see advertised are a waste of

> > money.

> >

> > He told me what to get, which I have a note of

> > somewhere, but it was just something ordinary.

> >

> > I use an IKEA floorstanding Anglepoise-type

> lamp,

> > and it's fine.

>

>

> Phew

Wordsworth, are you in some way connected with the other trolls on here?

Just wondering 🙄

[JohnL]

Reading the instructions on anything used to be easy LOL. Now I need to put it under the kitchen cooker light (thats the one I find easiest to help read things)

[Sue]

JohnL Wrote:

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> Reading the instructions on anything used to be

> easy LOL. Now I need to put it under the kitchen

> cooker light (thats the one I find easiest to help

> read things)

Don't know how old you are, but I started having trouble in dim light and when I went to the optician found it was the start of cataracts.

Not bad enough to treat yet, but will only get worse.

Oh happy happy days 🙂