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In my kitchen alone I'm saving nearly 400W when they're on. Living room and bedroom will be 120W savings each. For me it works out to about $5/month based on some estimated usage.
CFL's are still way cheaper (especially at WalMart they are dirt cheap), they use a little more energy than LED but still much less than a standard incandescent. They can pay for themselves in a couple months, these LEDs will take a year to pay for themselves. I just can't stand the warm up process for CFL, apparently they have instant brightness CFL now but they last shorter, the other LED benefit is 20 year life.

Edit: almost forgot about this, funny story from today. Went to Menards looking for a lawn mower, we moved to our first standalone house over winter and haven't had a yard before this, so we have zero lawn care tools. I have always liked electric motors over gasoline, so I was intrigued by this electric mower which was marked down from $200 to $100 on clearance. I bought it on impulse, only to come home and find out it's plugin with extension cord vs a battery like I thought. I had no idea they even made extension cord lawn mowers after the 80's, battery tech is so much better now (our yard is pretty small and will probably take 20 minutes to mow)

Then I read up on electric mowers and found out you have to replace the battery every few years which costs a decent amount, and the corded ones have virtually zero maintenance. I'm getting used to the idea of a cord and start to plan out how I would mow always moving away from the house so the cord would never get in the way, and then Emily vetoes the idea because she would have to mow when I'm on a trip. She equated it to vacuuming and running over the cord, which I said was totally different since you are always moving forward, not back and forth like a vacuum. Anyway, guess I'm getting a gas mower after all. Boo.