to think my neighbours are strange

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I've lived in my house since July last year and I live in a quiet cul de sac.

I have a neighbour over the road and he hasn't once opened any of his curtains since we have moved in. I see him occasionally outside but I can't understand why the curtains would be permanently closed.

DH thinks there is some kind of breaking bad operation going on in there

Mine are usually closed because my house is poorly insulated and I get cold. The curtains help a bit. Nothing exciting, I'm afraid! I might be weird but the curtain situation is unrelated :o

Bill I can understand if you live somewhere where people can peer in. Our street isn't near a main road, bus stop, shop or even any kind of walk through.

Perhaps he's a keen photographer who develops his own prints and has turned his whole house into a series of darkrooms?

Hate to break it to you but you may never know - out old next door neighbours never opened their front living room curtains in the 8 years!!
They seemed a normal family and all used to go in and out so who knows
The only strange thing was when a sail boat arrived in the middle of their very messy back garden one day and then after a few months disappeared again! Never saw it arrive or go! They didn't strike me as the outdoor types what with the overgrown garden and not opening the living room up to daylight so the boat was very odd

Unless that's what they were doing in the living room ... Constructing the boat bit by bit hmmmm

My curtains at the front are often shut for days on end in the winter, I just don't use those rooms whilst it's still light. Wonder if I am freaking out the neighbours and whether I could do anything else weird to add to the intrigue.

This is what I worry about - if I die before DH he will never remember to open the curtains and I hate it - I have threatened to come back and haunt him.........

Perhaps the neighbour has some very antique furniture and anti macassars a plenty and cannot afford to have the sunlight to damage them, or some priceless paintings. There will also be an aspidistra.

We tend ro keep our lounge ones sbut a lot because its massively drafty the curtains help and it saves a fortune on heating

Our bedroom blind is mostly closed as DH forgets to open it and he spends most time in there. Currently my dining room curtains are also closed as the contents of my bedroom are behind them ... Maybe he's a slatten as well?

I had a friend who never opened his living room curtains which I found strange, he was always watching tv or playing computer games in that room & did most of his living in the rooms at the back of the house so his neighbours might have thought similar things!

I was also going to say a hoarder, they never open their curtains.

Maybe he has a partner who cannot tolerate light, eg photophobia or ME. Much more likely that he CBA, tho

His TV is on the wall opposite the window, so he keeps the curtains closed to stop the light reflecting on it?

Neighbours are strange full stop - wonder what my neighbours find strange about me?

Picking up litter rather than walking round it for weeks on end.
Sweeping up the leaves in Autumn rather than driving over it until it becomes a slippery mush.
Not playing a chess-like game of immense strategy to enable the maximum number of cars to be parked in an unfeasibly small area!

I'll stop there...

I also live in a cul de sac and i also have a strange neighbour across the street. She never opens her blinds or her windows. She's lived there for about 11 or 12 years with her cat and she has never opened a window, I find this more disturbing than the fact that she doesn't open her blinds. I also know that her house smells because of this, I took in a parcel for her once and took it over to her, it wasn't pleasant when she opened the door.

We have some quite nice neighbours who have a lovely house, seemingly well furnished, but they have no window coverings at all.

You are def NOT BU - fucking bastard neighbours who don't let you snoop on their colour choices and soft furnishings.

How are we supposed to sneer/get inspirations?

Maybe they hate nets but don't want people being able to see in? I lived in one flat where I never opened the front curtains for this reason.

Is this really that unusual?

At this time of the year if he goes out in the morning to work and comes back from work after dark, and no one is home during the day, when would he open them? Mine only get opened at weekends at the moment!

elephant 'anti macassars a plenty' would make an ace name for a band

Gah. I was going to suggest the TV reflection thing but it's probably the heating thing and cooling in summer.
Although if I have a massive lie in then I'll leave the bedroom curtains shut until the afternoon and I've been seen outside so nobody knows what a slugabed I am.

My previous neighbour did this. His gardens were also a mess. He kept to himself a lot, although he toddled off to the pub for a couple of hours every night.

I guess he just liked his privacy (and didn't care his curtains were all mildewy).

It did always amuse me in Summer though, he would crack the front down stairs window and pull a small corner of curtain back to let air in.

Why bother?

Theres a bungalow at the end of my road. Curtains always closed, the garden is pristine and posh car on the drive that never seems to leave. Occasionally in the summer you see a guy in his mid 40s id say by now sitting in the garden.

There was a sign for some sort of weird sex sounding party on his drive for weeks a few months ago.

Hes a mystery and has lived there for over 20 years according to my neighbour