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You may have a badly wired house. It can be a bad loose or incorrectly wired part of the house wiring. Sometimes the needed ground is not made. When other circuits are used the household load can put too much voltage on one side of neutral and do damage. Neutral is the centertap of your external power transformer. 220vac (volts alternating current) is center tapped to provide two 110vac circuits to your lights and wall plugs. 220vac for hot water and the dryer. The neutral must be grounded at the residence main breaker box for safety and balanced power. An eight foot copper rod is driven into the ground and the main breaker boxes ground terminal is hooked to it by some hefty wire. The main box is where sub-boxes (other breaker boxes connected to the main one) need to be grounded also.

Buy compact florescent or LED lamps to replace the burnt ones.

A lot of things can cause bulbs to blow prematurely, excessive voltage, bad connections on your neutral wire, lost tension on spring contact in the center of your socket, but the #1 reason is vibration. Most of the time I that I run into this problem it is ceiling fans but even if it is not install a ceiling fan light bulb in the problem socket and see if that cures your problem. Most people don't know that there even was such a thing as a ceiling fan light bulb but they exist and are designed for ceiling fans and garages where it is likely exposed to higher vibration levels. The vibrations may not come from a ceiling fan but a washer or dryer, slamming doors etc. or just simply the fixture is not mount securely to the ceiling

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