{"id":85,"date":"2025-08-12T09:09:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guruofthebeauty.com\/hot-talk\/10520-we-lived-in-the-dark-for-6-years-because-i-didnt-check-one-thing\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T09:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:12:13","slug":"we-lived-in-the-dark-for-6-years-because-i-didnt-check-one-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"We Lived in the Dark for 6 Years \u2014 Because I Didn\u2019t Check One Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For six years, my wife and I lived in a dim bedroom after our overhead fan light barely glowed. I replaced the bulb once and assumed the unit was broken when the new one was also dim. Since the fan itself was expensive and still worked perfectly, we made do with lamps, bathroom light, and even flashlights. This winter, before replacing the fixture, I tried one last new bulb \u2014 and discovered the light was just set to \u201cdim\u201d the whole time. Six years of inconvenience, all because of<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/guruofthebeauty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fb6-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<p>Six years ago, the overhead fan light in our bedroom went dim \u2014 barely a glow.<\/p>\n<p>I bought a replacement bulb, but when the new one was also dim, I figured the whole unit was busted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"in_article\"><\/div>\n<p>The fan still worked perfectly, and since it was a pricey gift, I didn\u2019t want to replace it.<\/p>\n<p>Problem was, our bedroom gets very little natural light.<\/p>\n<p>So for six years, my wife and I made do with bedside lamps, bathroom light, and sometimes even flashlights to clean or find things.<\/p>\n<p>This winter, I finally decided I\u2019d replace the fixture.<\/p>\n<p>But first, I tried one last new bulb. Installed it, grabbed the remote, and\u2026 realized the light was set to \u201cdim.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"in_article\"><\/div>\n<p>Six years of living in the dark \u2014 all because I never checked the dimmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple spent six years with a barely lit fan, assuming it was broken\u2014until a new bulb revealed the light was just set to dim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}