Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse is moving to a larger location, and they will not take any non-LED lamps with them to the new location. Unfortunately, like Habitat Restore, they are misguided and brainwashed and think "if it's not LED, then it's inefficient garbage". So, ALL incandescent and fluorescent lamps are GRATIS, give-away, free of cost. (Of course any discharge lamp is included, but they don't really have any but one-odd HPS.) Please come liberate the lamps! Whatever is not gone by time of moving (October), will be chucked into a great-big haul-away waste container.
Here's my album of snapshots of ERW's wares.I came away with roughly fifty PL-C PL-S & PL-T type lamps, and they have roughly fifty more. (I don't have any use for them! I took them "just because gratis" and I was afraid nobody else would come to their rescue.) There's a hundred incandescent bulbs, shape A and G and R and PAR. There's a case of F14T12 Daylights, a case-quantity of OCTRON CURVALUME U-SHAPED Lamps with 1 5/8-inch Leg Spacing. Lots of self-ballasted-electronic CFLs. All together, it's not a tremendous quantity: it's but a fraction of what Chicago RESTORE had before they got rid of it all. But when you see them in the lighting corner, looking refused and unwanted, then it feels like an awful lot. More than a lifetime supply of lightbulbs for an average house. Also too, wallplates / switchplates are gratis/free, so stock-up on those for your future home wiring projects.
www.evanstonrebuildingwarehouse.org The Evanston Rebuilding Warehouseis located at 2101 Dempster Street in Evanston, IL, Tuesday - Saturday from 10am-5pm. We have a small parking lot, but additional (free) street parking is available on Hartrey Avenue, just a half block west of us.