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I was shopping with the family today. We have a camping trip coming up next weekend and my wife is wanting to get some type of lanterns for our kids (7, 7, and 9) to use. We were in Wally World looking at some of the camping gear since we need another air mattress and the kids need new sleeping bags as well. Anyways, we went back out through the lights and my wife wanted to stop and buy a lantern for our kids.
Now, she is not a flashaholic and probalby never will be. Though I'm working on at least getting her to have an appreciation for a good light. She started looking at a couple of the lanterns and asking my opinion on them. When I say that looking at these cheap, low quality lights was literally almost painful, I kid you not. I was just sorta, "Yeah, I guess that would be okay." *wince*
She did buy one cheap light for our cubmaster. It was a little $5 Pirates of the Caribbean light that she wanted to get her for the Pirate theme. I agreed but decided immediately that I needed to come on here and find a good drop-in to replace the bulb. As far as I can tell, I uses the same standard incandescent bulb (Krypton?) that most of your cheapie lights use and that should be easily replaced and runs off 2 AA batts. It's an Energizer branded light if that makes a difference. Anyone know of a not too expensive drop-in replacement I can use?
It's all your fault, you know. If you weren't all hanging out here talking about how great the latest lights are and convincing me to buy a real light, I might never have known what I was missing. I would have been blissfully happy with a cheap LED light and never known better. Now I look at the selection there and cringe. Thankfully we're going to Target probably tomorrow. They have a slightly better selection of decent lights; I MIGHT be able to convince her to get something a little less cheapy, maybe a River Rock or something. Of course I don't know that I should spend a whole lot of money on lights they are liable to break and I'm sure they'd be just as happy with that cheap $5-10 kids lantern cause, well, it's kiddish. So I may have to just cringe inside and suck it up. But if I do, I will know it's y'all's fault for showing me the light (no pun intended).
Now, she is not a flashaholic and probalby never will be. Though I'm working on at least getting her to have an appreciation for a good light. She started looking at a couple of the lanterns and asking my opinion on them. When I say that looking at these cheap, low quality lights was literally almost painful, I kid you not. I was just sorta, "Yeah, I guess that would be okay." *wince*
She did buy one cheap light for our cubmaster. It was a little $5 Pirates of the Caribbean light that she wanted to get her for the Pirate theme. I agreed but decided immediately that I needed to come on here and find a good drop-in to replace the bulb. As far as I can tell, I uses the same standard incandescent bulb (Krypton?) that most of your cheapie lights use and that should be easily replaced and runs off 2 AA batts. It's an Energizer branded light if that makes a difference. Anyone know of a not too expensive drop-in replacement I can use?
It's all your fault, you know. If you weren't all hanging out here talking about how great the latest lights are and convincing me to buy a real light, I might never have known what I was missing. I would have been blissfully happy with a cheap LED light and never known better. Now I look at the selection there and cringe. Thankfully we're going to Target probably tomorrow. They have a slightly better selection of decent lights; I MIGHT be able to convince her to get something a little less cheapy, maybe a River Rock or something. Of course I don't know that I should spend a whole lot of money on lights they are liable to break and I'm sure they'd be just as happy with that cheap $5-10 kids lantern cause, well, it's kiddish. So I may have to just cringe inside and suck it up. But if I do, I will know it's y'all's fault for showing me the light (no pun intended).