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

[Bluedeblue]

The first thing that I do, when I get up in the morning, is to open the curtains. Possibly a window as well, to let a breeze in. There are a few houses nearby, who never open any curtains. Bedroom and lounge curtains are always firmly closed, even on lovely summer days. The gardens are unkempt and scruffy, all the paintwork is peeling. But someone definitely living there, as in one case, a brand new car on the drive and I've seen pizza delivery to the other. Does anyone else find this really odd, and think that there must be something amiss with these people? It must be so dark inside. I find it almost a bit creepy.

from what you have described, i dont think anyone wants to see in their house op

Blinds closed to keep the heat out.
But some people just like privacy.
Others maybe have personal reasons,or no reasons at all,but it doesn't matter really.😀🌞🌞🌈

Are you my neighbour?

These last few days ours are shut as soon as the sun starts hitting them up until the sun has gone over the house.

Stays so much cooler in here that way. Living room thermostat says 21 currently.

I get all these posts about closed curtains in the current heat, I do the same, but some people don’t open them all winter either....keep the heat in? What about spring and Autumn, permanently closed curtains.

@TheWaif

In this weather my living room and bedroom would be like ovens when I got home if I left the curtains open all day. No one's fucking sick or hiding anything. Get a grip.

Same with us, this house heats up like a sauna through the day so it’s unbearable at night. Keeping the curtains closed when it’s hot and sunny really helps.

Probably just vampires

@megletthesecond

I was just pondering this as I walked home. There's a couple of houses in our grotty estate who never ever open their curtains. It's weird.

Maybe they just don't want to look at the grotty estate!

I open curtains, blinds and windows as soon as I'm up, not counting the upstairs windows, which are open pretty much all year round.

However, once it hits 24 Celsius in the bedroom (which it did a couple of weeks ago and hasn't dropped below 27 for the last week, it's at 32 at the moment - yes, my house holds on to heat and is in full sun from 4am until about 6pm) - it's been completely flipped; all curtains and blinds closed, windows closed during the day but opened at night if it's any cooler - tonight they're likely to stay shut out front but the back ones will be open because that side is comparitively cool, being north facing.

When I get enough money together to buy aircon, those windows will be staying closed all day and night during summer, only opening when it's a reasonable 18-20.

Another one here, wondering if you're my neighbour! Blinds downstairs, never open, as you can see straight in. Curtains upstairs usually shut to keep the sunlight out. We have a very cool house until there is a complete heatwave and even then, it's still bearable because we never let it cook in full light.
Paintwork peeling - yep! No time to paint it because of the ridiculous work load DH and I carry which always spills over into the evenings and weekends. Similarly no time to organise estimates or even get back early in the working day for someone to give us an estimate. Holiday down -time is far too precious to spend organising mundane jobs when we have family we want to see at various points around the country.
Garden - ditto the above, although I have managed to get the back looking reasonable. The front is still scruffy though.
Luckily my lovely, funny and genuine friends see past all of that - in fact they're quite similar to me. One of them has recently retired and has just started to bring garden and decorating to the front of her priorities.
We also have pizza deliveries from time to time and a reasonably new car, purchased with money from a small inheritance.
Never realised that made me creepy or was a sign of my having something amiss...I thought I was a bit scatty, totally unmaterialistic and more inclined to spend my holidays reading a good book or catching up with my similarly creepy friends.

I have nothing to hide but if I'm not in a room I don't necessarily go in and open mu blinds and curtains, There are 2 in my bedroom I only open when I'm cleaning or spending time in there doing work at a desk otherwise I don't bother.... Maybe they aren't using the rooms or keep different times than you do...

My garden is 'unkempt and scruffy' with waist-high plants, because I like it looking cottagey and overgrown rather than smart and manicured, and because I have deliberately planted extra wild flowers to help the bees this year.

My fence is also broken because a lorry backed into it, and the 'paintwork is peeling' on my house because workers are hard to get - it's taken me four months just to get my windows replaced, and the earliest I could get a house-painter after that is another month's time. As for a fencing contractor - despite trying since January, I've yet to find one who will return my calls!

More importantly - I couldn't give the tiniest toss what passers-by think of my house. I have no doubt that anyone who would comment would be the sort of person whose taste and opinions I would despise anyway.

I don’t have anything closed downstairs (occasionally privacy blind) but my bedrooms sometimes stay shut - we’re too busy rushing around with two kids, drop offs, pick ups, full time work x 2, cooking, washing, cleaning blah blah to worry about it (though I do worry about what my neighbour thinks - even more so now)!

1. Got three gamers in the house - DH & 2 DSs 🙄
2. Two of us suffer from migraine - me and DS2

So that's why we have ours closed

Or maybe you have shitty shitheads for neighbours who have a huge garden yet put their massive trampoline right on the fenceline where the fence is at its lowest so their noisy little brats can jump up and down shrieking and whining for hours and hours looking down on us trying to sit in our garden or looking into our house.
I am going to sell my house to the biggest family I can find that promises to undertake years of noisy building work to coincide with these shits' childrens GCSEs and A levels just so they know what it is like.
That is what they are doing to us.
So yes, plenty of closed curtains and windows here.

@EntitledExtensionBuildingTwits

Or maybe you have shitty shitheads for neighbours who have a huge garden yet put their massive trampoline right on the fenceline where the fence is at its lowest so their noisy little brats can jump up and down shrieking and whining for hours and hours looking down on us trying to sit in our garden or looking into our house. I am going to sell my house to the biggest family I can find that promises to undertake years of noisy building work to coincide with these shits' childrens GCSEs and A levels just so they know what it is like. That is what they are doing to us. So yes, plenty of closed curtains and windows here.

Omg are you on the other side of my neighbours 😂 probably not because they have their trampoline right next to us and when they’re kids we’re younger they would stare at us whenever they jumped up on the trampoline. I mean, the no-break stare. Then there was the water pistol summer where they sprayed water over our fence every time they were on it 😆

You'd have a field day with us! All of the curtains are closed until evening because our house catches so much sun that it becomes unbearably stuffy.

I keep my curtains closed because they're my curtains and I can do what I like with them. Sometimes I open them on the same principle.

I don’t open my blinds or curtains. It keeps my house cool and I like the contained feeling. I like privacy in my house.

...or really fucking hot.

In the winter days, I leave when it's dark and come home when it's dark.
If there is no-one in the house, sometimes I can't be bothered just going through the motions for the sake of it.

Pretty obvious why people close their curtains given the outside temperature at the moment isn’t it?

We have blinds and keep them shut, they allow plenty of light in as they are translucent but no nosey neighbor glances.

An added bonus is our house his always warm in winter and even more so beautifully cool in summer... when we open the door people always ask how we get it so nice as the cool air rushes out or assume we have aircon and the simple answer is dont open the blood blinds and turn it into a greenhouse.

I frankly think people worrying about others curtain usage is so outdated and rediculous, there zero reason to have your curtains/blinds wide open.

Our dog chases lights and reflections so we keep our curtains closed in the rooms he is in on sunny days. There are loads of reasons I imagine.

Our curtains in the living room are always shut as we are straight on to the pavement and dont want everyone who walks past staring in. The curtains in the one upstairs window that faces the street are always closed as again straight on the street and at double decker bus height so again to avoid people staring in. The back ones are always open but no one sees them so they probably think we are ill or hiding something but I promise we are not.

I tend to keep mine closed though nobody could see in anyway. It never occurred to me anybody would notice. I certainly do not notice the windows of neighbours.