Another Soviet story I read.
Q - What was a used light bulb worth in the Soviet Union.
A - Nearly the same price as a new one. Why?
It seems light bulbs were hard to get in the Soviet Union but factories and work places had to have them. So the enterprising would take their dead bulb to work and surreptitiously swap it for the good one. In order to build up a stockpile of good bulbs at home or to sell them on the black market, dead bulbs attracted a value.
