Candlelight Update

Last week I posted about our plans to go without artificial light for a month. Well we're a week in and it has been going surprisingly well!

Bathroom shelf

I finally got all of our needed shelves put up in the kitchen and bathroom so we could have more candlelight around. The tape on the light switches is still keeping us honest from time to time, though I've noticed myself reaching for the switch less and less.

The hardest part about this so far has been shaving.  It seems no matter how many candles I put around me, it's still kind of difficult to really see where you're shaving.

My candlestick after 1 week

One of the best parts about this has been that we open the windows much more now since the candles don't put out a lot of light. We need as much supplemental light as possible and it's also nice having sunlight instead of fluorescent light.

I still haven't covered the aquarium light, but I'm shortening the photoperiod (it needed to be shortened anyway) so the lights shut off at 7pm instead of 9pm. This will give us more of the evening without lights to make this more realistic.

I'm very optimistic abut the rest of the month and can see this going on for longer than the month. There have been times, particularly if I've lost something and need to find it, that I've wanted to turn the lights on, but I've managed pretty well without them.