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These things drain batteries like nobody's business. Incredibly wasteful!

I don't know if there are any good battery operated lights that are efficient with battery life. Just get some rechargeable batteries and a recharger. A lot of people already have a rechargers for their digital camera anyways.

The top two example photos the lady and the man show an obvious other light source. Scam.

i've seen ones advertised that have light sensors on them, so they would turn on only when you open the closet door. maybe that would be a good alternative?

All advertising is just a bunch of lies.

That said, these items are very useful, rechargeable batteries make them less wasteful.
A walk in, well lighted closet in a McMansion might be a dream for some but for those of us making do with older houses they work just fine.

I don't get it. You stick them on the base and they glow forever until the batteries are down or you take them off again? Or is there a switch?

Agree with Anna -- these are incredibly draining on batteries. Previous owner had one up in a pantry and we changed the batteries on the first day; not one month later (mind you, it was on about 12 minutes cumulatively, at the very, very most) it was dead. 4 AA batteries! That's a lot of dead.

The light is not strong at all, I had one and it lit up nothing.

i agree with the low light level and battery wasting comments. Might I also add that that they go through the Krypton bulbs quickly, although they are very cheap, and kind of cute. Like a tiny light bulb. I have been trying to figure out what to make with them.
But they are the best battery operated light I have found (those puck lights are a joke), and I'm not ready to pay an electrician to rewire my bedroom. So..........

this thing SUCKS. the sticky backing lasted about three seconds. the light is sucky, too!

I was surprised at the uniformly negative comments. I use one in an outdoor unwired shed and it works great. When I go to put the trash out in the dark of night, the one bulb is more than enough light to let me see around the 10' x 12' space. You can't read by it but it's more than bright enough to see your way around. And, i don't know why, I just get a kick out of pulling the little string to turn it on and off.
I put it up in April of last year, used it a couple of times each day through till fall, then totally forgot to take it down and remove the batteries when we closed up for the winter (it was fine in the spring) and now have been using it regularly for this summer too, using the original duracell batteries. I don't understand the battery complaints others have.
I put the other one on the inside of the cabinet under my kitchen sink, a dark cavernous area that I used to have to use a flashlight to see the back of. It just works great there and that one is still on the same batteries too.

Elizabeth, I think the stick-on lights would work as a relatively inexpensive solutions for unwired closets. (They're available in drug stores and places like staples.) Have all of you who made the negative comments, especially about the batteries, actually used them?