I agree. I'm a clean air fanatic, so my windows are open whenever weather permits, and they get very dusty. I'm also a smoker, so they get smelly. I also have 2 cats, so they full of cat hair and dander. If I leave them pulled back all the time, cobwebs accumulate. I have plantation blinds, so if I'm doing anything private I close them, but I can't think of the last time I did anything so private that I cared if anyone saw me except in the bathroom, where I have roll-down privacy-lined wooden blinds.
Some people do have a need to seep in totally dark rooms and they need room-darkening blinds AND lined curtains, and I understand that. One of my friends works night shift and she lines the inside of her windows with special acoustical foil.
As a chronic asthma sufferer I find curtains to be mega dust magnets; also, they trap cat and dog hair/dander. So my neighbors just have to deal with me puttering around in my boxers in the summer. They don't have to look!
Sheers. They are called sheers (optionally, sheer panels)From: https://www.dwfcontract.com...Sheer: A drapery panel made of sheer or translucent fabric, sometimes used underneath an outer drapery.
We still are not at Italian standards - we don't shoot them every year. I just love all the jokes coming out about the changes and suggestions about who could be the next one.
Yes, I dig curtains. The problem with curtains is they block the light and make the rooms dark. My aunt always had all the curtains drawn in every room, and her house was always dark. I'd visit and say "Aunt, let's open the curtains, please" and she'd say "Oh, no, then people can look in and see what we're doing."
But the thing is that all they were doing was sitting and watching TV 24/7/365 (either her husband or one of her two sons, or her grandson who eventually lived with her, was always awake, either in the recliner or on the sofa, watching TV, while she was always in the kitchen, or doing laundry, or outside in the garden, or at church, or doing something productive) so who cared if anyone saw them? They never DID anything, and watching TV is not suspicious, it's an American tradition. But she was from the "what will the neighbors think" generation.
I don't care for curtains, myself, because they have to be taken down and washed or dry cleaned. My mother took them down and washed them four times a year and then put them back up. This was quite a chore in a big house with lots of windows. Why 4X a year, do you ask? Because in my childhood nobody had AC so the windows were open 9 months of the year, and a lot of dirt blew in, and the curtains got very dirty. Also my father smoked a pipe, so they also got smelly. I did this myself for a few years when I became independent before I decided "Fuck this, it's too much work." Now I have very pretty, sheer panels hanging by each window, just to frame the window because that is a nice look, and I wash them once a year.
My mother also flipped the mattresses 4X a year. I don't think I have ever flipped a mattress in my life.
I'll have to take your word for Agnew's "bona fides", Dog. I was just 21 when he resigned and my political orientation was "naive", putting a severe limit on my awareness.
I agree. I'm a clean air fanatic, so my windows are open whenever weather permits, and they get very dusty. I'm also a smoker, so they get smelly. I also have 2 cats, so they full of cat hair and dander. If I leave them pulled back all the time, cobwebs accumulate. I have plantation blinds, so if I'm doing anything private I close them, but I can't think of the last time I did anything so private that I cared if anyone saw me except in the bathroom, where I have roll-down privacy-lined wooden blinds.
Some people do have a need to seep in totally dark rooms and they need room-darkening blinds AND lined curtains, and I understand that. One of my friends works night shift and she lines the inside of her windows with special acoustical foil.
I'd rather donate to Reel Big Fish. Or Less than Jake. Or the Bosstones. That latter's new album is kick-ass, BTW.
As a chronic asthma sufferer I find curtains to be mega dust magnets; also, they trap cat and dog hair/dander. So my neighbors just have to deal with me puttering around in my boxers in the summer. They don't have to look!
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Sheers. They are called sheers (optionally, sheer panels)From: https://www.dwfcontract.com...Sheer: A drapery panel made of sheer or translucent fabric, sometimes used underneath an outer drapery.
He did! He used to be "Robert Pecker"...
I'm sure they are. And I'm equally sure they're doing nothing to counter said attack or retaliate with same.
Quelle une doll-baby!!!
We still are not at Italian standards - we don't shoot them every year. I just love all the jokes coming out about the changes and suggestions about who could be the next one.
Yes, I dig curtains. The problem with curtains is they block the light and make the rooms dark. My aunt always had all the curtains drawn in every room, and her house was always dark. I'd visit and say "Aunt, let's open the curtains, please" and she'd say "Oh, no, then people can look in and see what we're doing."
But the thing is that all they were doing was sitting and watching TV 24/7/365 (either her husband or one of her two sons, or her grandson who eventually lived with her, was always awake, either in the recliner or on the sofa, watching TV, while she was always in the kitchen, or doing laundry, or outside in the garden, or at church, or doing something productive) so who cared if anyone saw them? They never DID anything, and watching TV is not suspicious, it's an American tradition. But she was from the "what will the neighbors think" generation.
I don't care for curtains, myself, because they have to be taken down and washed or dry cleaned. My mother took them down and washed them four times a year and then put them back up. This was quite a chore in a big house with lots of windows. Why 4X a year, do you ask? Because in my childhood nobody had AC so the windows were open 9 months of the year, and a lot of dirt blew in, and the curtains got very dirty. Also my father smoked a pipe, so they also got smelly. I did this myself for a few years when I became independent before I decided "Fuck this, it's too much work." Now I have very pretty, sheer panels hanging by each window, just to frame the window because that is a nice look, and I wash them once a year.
My mother also flipped the mattresses 4X a year. I don't think I have ever flipped a mattress in my life.
You can almost admire her dedication to being a completely worthless person.
Yeah, but it was only for a week.
If you run out of ideas I can send you some. I'll bill you later.
It was meant to be hard to kill. Single-payer would be even harder to kill because 'KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY HEALTH CARE!'
Unfortunately, there are a lot of crunchy-granola-hippie anti-vaxers too.
I'll have to take your word for Agnew's "bona fides", Dog. I was just 21 when he resigned and my political orientation was "naive", putting a severe limit on my awareness.