I have had a far different experience. I replaced all the incandescent bulbs in our house with LED bulbs in September of 2017. We have a chandelier in our great room that I put 6 of these bulbs in:

The first bulb failed last month so they all lasted over 6 years.

That light stays on about 15 hours a day so the dogs have one bright room while we are at work. We travel a good bit so very conservatively that were on 275 days a year. After I looked it up on Amazon and saw they lasted 6 years I was curious how much electricity they saved. I honestly didn't care the main reason I got them was to avoid having to get the 16' ladder out at least once a year because the incandescents were going out all the time.

The 6 incandescents drew 360w compared to the 54w of the 6 60w equivalent LED bulbs. So I rounded to a savings of 300w.

15 hours of 300w savings is 4.5kWh per day x 275 days per
year x 6 years times a very conservative .10 per kWh comes out to a savings of $742.50 over those 6 years.

The pack of 8 bulbs cost me $23.00 total so $17.25 for 6. Outside all the time I would have spent changing incandescent bulbs over the 6 years I still saved over $700 over the time.

I replaced over 100 other bulbs around the house and that one is the only one that has failed. The electricity I saved just in the one fixture paid for all those bulbs more than 2 times over.

My experience is obviously very different than some, it may be the bulbs I bought or I might just be incredibly lucky but my experience has left me in a place that I would not use incandescent bulbs even if I got them for free even if someone paid for the extra electricity just based on the trouble I have saved replacing bulbs in fixtures that are in high ceilings.

This post was edited on 11/15/23 at 8:58 pm