I still have CFLs in my bathroom. The plastic in the plug has faded from white to yellow. Yet they still work fine, although it takes them 3-5 seconds to get to full brightness.

But you get free mercury vapor when they shatter, which is priceless.

Yep, same. I replace CFLs and now LEDs about as often as I used to replace incandescents. On the upside they put out less heat. On the downside they cost 10X or more what an incandescent did, making the payoff in electrical energy savings suspect at best, and the quality of the light is worse (subjective).