As I eluded to in other posts earlier this year, The governor of Colorado back in 2023 signed into state law the ban of sales of Fluorescent lighting and a few other types in the state of Colorado effective January 1st, 2025. 
See details here: https://inside.lighting/news/23-05/colorado-poised-2025-fluorescent-ban

so that means LED from here on for the buildings I am responsible for maintaining.  Once we use up our existing stock of fluorescent.  I anticipate this being a slow gradual transition over to LED at many of my buildings.  I've already retrofitted 2 of our church buildings over to LED that are in the city limits of Denver as they required commercial properties over a certain size to be LED by January 1st of 2024.  I have 2 sources of LEDs that I have been obtaining from, one a local distributor that has been using the Sylvania/LEDVANCE LEDs (they break very easily if not careful) and I also have been ordering from 1000bulbs . com.  So far so good.  I get a bad out of box LED from Sylvania about every 2-3 cases, and I have only had 1 bad case of tubes from 1000 that were mostly broken in the box despite good packaging.  I'm going with the 3500 and 4000K Type-B direct wire type, bypassing the ballasts.  The brand I go with the most from 1000 bulbs is PLT and using the 3500K.  I get both the 1700 lumens and the 2200 lumens, depending on how bright we need things.  I do use 4000K when requested for our recreation hall areas, but the 3500 is a great go-between and many like it over the 3000K T8s they are replacing. 

https://www.1000bulbs.com/product/222783/PLTS-20112.html

We'll see how well these hold up in the long run.  I think they'll do much better vs the terrible T8 crap that has been coming from Philips, GE, and Sylvania over the past 10 years, mostly from China. 

Was in a Home Depot yesterday, and they had all their remaining fluorescent lamps marked down cheap.
Looked through them & picked up a few daylight F8T5's but thats it.

Might go to another Home Depot today to get the boards I wanted(nothing but bent scrap in the shelf at the 1st store. .lol. ) Ofcourse I'll check the lights while there...

As far as I know we never banned any lamp types here. They don't usually sell incandescent in most places due to its obvious unpopularity. Stores gradually take things off the shelves as they slowly stop selling.

I'm most concerned about finding 100w incandescent lamps for my lamp, though luckily my grandparents have a few packs of those-

Go to Restore for 100 watt bulbs

Went to that 2nd Home Depot, got the boards I needed & ofcourse while there had a look at the fluorescents.. didn't get anything, but if I'd needed F32's there were some deals.
I'll probably online-order the couple fluorescent things I want tomorrow.

Unrelated, but Incandesnent-wize the one thing I'd like to get is a stash of standard 40w bulbs.
Don't even see Incandescents at the local ReStore these days.

Yeah restores here are drying up too. I used to find all sorts of interesting stuff. Now its just generic crap I don't care about. Kinda takes the fun out of the hunt when I have to resort to eBay for things. 


Now that's not to say the funs completely over but we are outside of the glory days and into the dusk. Soon ( within the next 5ish years) it will be LED snow cones and integrated lamps at the restores. Also alot of old houshold chandeliers and ceiling fans but I'm not really interested in making my house look like a mid 2000s Lowe's lighting section. I prefer industrial lights   

Yeah Restores here have dried up a lot over the past 6-8 years. I used to find a lot of interesting stuff as well but they get most of their stock for large corporate donors now so a lot of their stuff are random fluorescent sizes, Home Depot clearance stock, and even a lot or new in box LED stuff.

It's still mostly boring, but I find that Value Villages (Savers) is sometimes more interesting now.

Soon ( within the next 5ish years) it will be LED snow cones and integrated lamps at the restores.

Already seeing that here.
Its rare I find/buy anything at all there these days. Don't even bother going very often anymore.

It's still mostly boring, but I find that Value Villages (Savers) is sometimes more interesting now.

Savers shut down all their stores here.
Still have Goodwill & Arc, but I don't come across much at either. Only thing I can remember getting in the past year is a single set of Christmas lights earlier this month. .lol.

Yeah mine gets a lot of LED snow cone, LED filments, LED tubes, LED corn cobs, and even integrated LED fixtures. Apparently a lot of LED SKUs change so often that places like Home Depot tend to donate the obsolete SKUs to clear out room for the new stuff so the Restores get a lot of LED stuff.

Even at the thrift stores I don't really see much good stuff too. Value Village is the largest player here. Next is probably Salvation Army, followed by Good Will and other smaller chains such as Mission Thrift and independent stores. The only good find this year was a box of Westinghouse 175w Lifeguards that still had 5/6 lamps inside.

I've noticed even smaller Home Hardware type mom and pop hardware stores don't have a lot of NOS stuff anymore. I wonder if it all got cleared out/donated (or thrown out) when they needed the shelf space for LED stuff.