hyper2Executive Malfunction
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Or when you’re stuck in an apartment and can’t change them. :(
Back when I was in an apartment We actually pinned blackout curtains or blankets over these types of entrances. It’s ugly and it’s a bit of a hassle but it’s worth it
Can’t you change them and just change them back when you move apartments?
That’s what I would do with shower heads, since landlords typically just go with cheap ones that check off “has shower” but otherwise generally suck. They just screw off, I stick the crappy one in the cabinet under the sink, and install another one that I bought.
Frustrating part is that it doesn’t even cost much to get a decent one instead of the cheapest possible. It’s like landlords and developers go out of their way to save a tiny amount on hardware and appliances that are significantly worse than what you can get for not that much more.
These types of ideas sound great before you know how much blinds cost. “Maybe I can live with it after all "
I’ve been seriously considering just removing them without replacing them with anything for about 6 of those 13 years 😄
Something that I noticed about these is there is a fairly wide gap in quality between the cheapest landlord special vertical blinds and the “nice” vertical blinds. The nicer ones are fairly thick so they hold their curve and dont get AS jumbled up as the cheap ones. But more imporantly they dont crack just from looking at them.
vaultdweller013You can just buy a blanket or rug and use that. Blinds are a bit shit in my opinion.
NatanoxYeah, those blinds are really cheap… had them in my first c̶u̶b̶b̶y̶h̶o̶l̶e̶ apartment too. Made it look like trash, but at least they gave me privacy.
chickenOne good thing about them is that if you have a cat, they are less likely to get destroyed than the other type of blinds.
I hate these, but I learned after removing them that you cant just go to the hardware store and get something else and curtains and other types of blinds often don’t come in the sizes/span these ones do and you have to go custom at a large cost.
So what you’re saying is that I should apply for lodgings at Vault-Tec? Then I won’t have to worry about windows!
Hey I grabbed multicolored scotch tape (painters tape) and put a Pride flag onto the shades that way I can show my neighbors I’m fruity. Party in the front, party in the house
Edna (dey/sie)Me when I’m reminded not everyone has awesome roller shutter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_shutter
Oh what the FUCK‽ So you’re the weirdo who broke into my house and took that picture‽
If you don’t want me to break in, don’t steal my apartment and put It in your house!
I told you already, it was fucking Q playing his dumb pranks!
So I might have fucked up last week:
I have been contemplating buying a new couch for my house. It being Thanksgiving, I figured this was the best time so I could save some money. So I hopped in my car and went and bought a new couch.
I also decided this would be a good time to rearrange my living room the way I wanted it to be (for the new couch). This meant halving two builtins to accommodate my very large TV stand. My thought process was that I could remove half the builtins without having to remove them completely; I was wrong. Boy, was I wrong.
Not only am I going to have to build all new builtins, but also:
So yeah, I can’t help but wonder how many years it’ll be before I fix my living room.
~All because of a fucking couch. 🤦♂️~
A few years ago I was headed to bed and went to go put the stick into the track. As I stand back up my head ramed into the little dangling rod you use to open and close them. As I do the dance of pain, cursing and hold my head in pain I discover the blood running down the side of my head, fuck. I rip the rod off the track go to throw it. I have a moment of clarity realizing I’m about the throw it at my TV. Still mad I throw it at the floor. I then watch in stunned horror as it bounced and did a little twirl into my TV. Said fuck it and went to bed. The next day I ordered new blinds for my back door ( they dont have a rod but string) and went to Costco for a new TV.
I had no sink in my bathroom for 7 years. Every day I would use the shower to wash my hands or brush my teeth and then think “one of these days I should figure out who to call to install this sink”.
I gave up on the apartment before it happened. I wonder if these days it would have been different with me being medicated.
I have ADHD. I have those awful looking and beat up vertical blinds. I haven’t replaced them because I am busy, lazy as fuck, and don’t give a shit about how crap they look, not because of my ADHD. Not picking up a strip after it falls because I get squirreled away? That’s all on my goofy brain.
I have been called out.
Welcome, kindred spirit 😁
I miss vertical blinds. Our cats destroyed all our horizontal blinds, so we just keep the curtains closed for privacy.
Yours or that of the cats?
Definitely not the cats. Gotta have curtains long-enough to tuck-under them so they can enjoy the couch-cushions and the view, particularly if I want the curtains to also do their duty stopping glare on the TV in the far-corner.
It was a race between my cat chewing the cords holding my horizontal blinds together vs the vertical blinds just deciding to self destruct. I’ve had wet toilet paper that tore less easily then the vertical blinds I have.
Never understood the vertical blinds made of fabric or other flimsy materials. The kind I grew up with, the kind I miss, were thick plastic or vinyl. You could paint them
These are vinyl. They just tear at the top where the hook goes.
Unless the stems are breaking, that’s what repair-tabs are for. That said, I can’t believe that’s still the only way the slats are being hung.
Oh wait, I found a thing. I was thinking some sort of clamp would be best, and that’s basically what these are.
Somehow, I doubt it keeps them from being pulled-down again, but at least you should be able to just put them back up again and again this way.
If you wait long enough, it comes back into fashion.
And for thar reason (and I like fire), I have no blinds. :)
The rail+hooks make a decent quality curtain mechanism:
The top nylon hanger bars seemed to be good enough adapters to curtain hooks, as a “temporary” solution.