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Newly-added Convenience outlet
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I rewired the deck street light display, adding an outlet. The outlet was NOS from the ReStore. The cover and box itself are used from the ReStore. The box, cover, and outlet cost me 25 cents TOTAL! I bought the UF cable and cable/box connectors at Lowe's along with the round box and cover.
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Granted, none of my outlets are GFCI, even the one less than a foot from the bathroom sink.
My bathroom and outdoor outlets are GFCI. I never retrofitted the kitchen outlets with them because I would have needed 2-pole GFCI breakers which cost a arm and a leg to buy. I believe the last time I looked at prices they cost $150 for a 15A 2-pole unit.
I had no idea GFCIs would "Interfere" with each other either!
@ Brian: wow that's a little overkill in my opinion.
@ Andy: Yeah they'll keep making those because one GFCI outlet will protect the whole circuit. I think Brian means they all just have to be GFCI-protected, meaning you could actually just use GFCI breakers and then use all regular duplex outlets. The breakers are very expensive though. Most people opt for the $14 GFCI outlet which does the same thing. The only place I'd prefer to use GFCI breakers over GFCI outlets is outdoors because the humidity destroys the GFCI outlets over time. The one in my backyard doesn't allow you to press the "TEST" button so I have a feeling it won't be saving anyone from a ground fault.
BTW I should also note that this thing filled up with water in late summer and when I lifted the flap/cover as you see in the pic, brown water poured out. So I got the hose and put "jet" mode on and washed all the rust-water out (it had been eating at the paint inside the box, but the box is aluminum so it was the outlet that was rusting). Then I dried it out, replaced the outlet, and sealed all the seams with liquid electrical tape. As far as I know it's remained dry. It's at least not bad enough for the water to pour out of the outlet slots lol. It could be a serious issue if it shorted hot/neutral together though or shorted to ground (especially since that faulty GFCI I mentioned is what this light gets plugged into lol). If it fills up again I'm going to replace this with a blank cover over the box since I don't think I've used this outlet since I installed it anyway.
BTW, Tony, I'm sending you a PM in a few.