Monday, April 16, 2018

N is for Night Lights


There is no need to carry a lantern around our house to navigate after dark. No night lights plugged into electrical sockets either.

We, instead, have many red, blue, and green lights visible in all of our rooms. Chargers and devices with lights are everywhere.

In the home office, we have a cordless vacuum cleaner than sits there and charges and blinks a big blue light to either say it is charging or that it is already charged. That room also will have a Kindle or Kindle Fire plugged in with either a red, yellow or green light.  And, the cable modem, phone modem and wifi router light up with multicolored blinking lights like a christmas tree. Add my captioning telephone which always has its display lit.

In the kitchen we have green clocks on the stove and microwave. A month ago, we bought a new Oster coffee maker. That damn thing has blue backlighted buttons and a huge blue back lighted timer display. It is so bright, we routinely cover it with a kitchen towel at night.

In a couple of rooms, we have cable set top boxes that glow. Add in three cordless phones in their chargers with red lights. Not to mention a couple of cell phones and computers telling us that they are charging.

No wonder my electric bill is so high.

2 comments:

  1. LOL! Yes, tons of multi-colored lights everywhere! We have a specific area where we have most of our charging devices so a lot of our night lights are there. However, we do it because of frequent power outages. When the power goes out, we unplug the voltage regulator the UPS is plugged into (then turn off the UPS) and all of our night lights go off. Fun post, DC.


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  2. LOL! Same here..whether in the RV or the house. Security system base glows blue. Security camera glows red. Dustbuster blinks blue. Yellow-green for the router. Blues and green for various charging bricks. And on, and on, and on....LOL!

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