To think that people who keep their curtains closed all day must be ill, or hiding something?

I don't find it weird at all, or a "need to hide something." Some people are just not sun lovers. I am one of them. Right now, I have to be up during the daytime as there are a host of home health care workers coming and going during the week, however, once I am recovered enough, I will go back to my "bedtime at 7 AM, arise at 5 PM" schedule, and you can bet that my curtains will be closed during the day, as it is easier to sleep that way.

Then there are those poor souls who are (or have children who are) victims of scleroderma pigmentosa, and ANY UV light is dangerous, and ultimately fatal. They are forced to live by night, and block out the sun, or die VERY early.

There are also people who, with nothing evil or unsavory to hide, are simply very private people.

Just because someone lives differently than you does not automatically mean that they are somehow damaged or wrong.

Maybe they work permanent nights ? That’s why ours aren’t open

It's how my partner knows if I'm having a bad time. I don't open the curtains when I'm feeling low. Maybe those people are struggling 🤷‍♀️

We live in a ground floor flat and the amount of people who brazenly stare in, both as they pass and stop and stare in, is ridiculous. We have privacy film on most of the windows that let us see out but no one can see in, however in our bedroom I keep the blinds/curtains shut. Purely because I don't want to come in and find people staring in. I find that creepy if I'm honest, much more so than people who keep their curtains closed

There is nothing odd or creepy about it! We keep our blinds shut - especially on a “lovely summer days” because we both struggle with the hot weather and keeping the blinds shut helps to keep the house cooler

We live at the back of the house during the day so often don't use the front room so curtains can stay closed until the evening when we use it. Leave the front bedroom early in the morning and don't go back in it until night so curtains often stay shut for days/weeks at a time. House is scruffy at the front just because I have enough to do without sorting that out. Back garden is lovely tho, but neighbours can't see that! We work hard and are good people so I find it puzzling that strangers would judge my behaviour creepy. Indeed I would judge them harshly for that!

We have a house at the bottom of our road where I've never seen the front lounge curtains open. We've been in our house 8 years. The mold that is growing up the curtain lining grim!

sometimes when we are in a rush for work we forget to open some of the curtains. Some people may just have busy lives!

It keeps the heat out

My daughter doesn’t like the light, it gives her a headache. I open the curtains, she closes again. My partner prefers to sit in a darkish room too. Could be lots of reasons but mostly it is down to personal preference!

I have really bad anxiety and depression at the moment and if I'm having a really bad day I shut my curtains just to keep the world out and I really have nothing to hide and I'm sure there are more people out there like this

Maybe they don’t like have nosy neighbours like you looking in their windows. My bedroom curtains are nearly always closed as hubby does night shift and I do day shift so someone is always sleeping.

Just wondering if you've found people do this at other places you've lived. Is probably do the same if I thought I was being judged by a busybody. What business is it of yours if somebody wants to close their curtains during the day or doesn't want to mow their lawn. Or have an effing pizza delivered for god's sake.! Haven't we enough o. Our plates without this sort of judgemental behaviour.

My youngest is autistic and hates the curtains open. So we don’t have much of a choice 🙈😬 sometimes as people have said before, if it’s a hot day I keep them closed to try keep the heat out a bit as we are south/west facing

Used to be the saying “Better open the curtains or people will think someone has died”. Windows are for looking out of not into-we are not living in a zoo or putting in pay for view shows, so maybe just take on board what other people have posted and move on. We also live on a busy through road and don’t want everyone looking inside our house-not up to anything dodgy or living in a hovel just like to keep our privacy with kids in the house and expensive items a burglar could eye up. We also have an expensive car in the driveway and get pizza delivered sometimes.

Every window a d blind in my house is open no matter what the weather.... then it comes to my 19 Ds who closes his blinds all the time!! I hate it!

I believe your reply comes from bias with a nod to prejudice.

YANBU. When I was working in welfare with vulnerable families and children most of the families had their curtains closed at any time of the day, in my experience it was due to poverty and/or depression and mental health. I had to visit many homes and not everyone I visited had their curtains closed but my main premise for visiting the families was for issues within the family or issues with the children so I may have a different view. I have purposely not read any other replies but saw lots of people voted YABU but can only speak from my own experience.

To keep the heat, dust and flies out. We live in the Med.
Also so I can't see what might need cleaning.

We keep our front downstairs blinds closed 24/7! We live on a terrace street. It's nothing to do with hiding anything but would you like being sat enjoying some family time and having nosy sobs peering in??

Keeps the heat out in summer and heat in during cold months.

I have a neighbour who never draws curtains, cuts the grass three times a year max and has never had the windows cleaned

I need to close the curtains as, if the sun is shining I cannot see the TV properly. You know MN is amazing, Ive never met a group of people so obsessed with their neighbours who in all probability are harmless. So what if their house has paint peeling. Better than them playing loud music 24/7, or using your garden while you are out. Reading posts like this makes me glad that Im not overly involved with neighbours. Good fences definitely make good neighbours.