alternate title: Our house looks quite ghetto with the blinds down.
Sadly, this (meaning the cute little girl playing with the blinds) is not the biggest problem with them.
Notice how one of the slats is broken? And, there are pieces on the window sill?
I’m pretty sure they are made from something thinner and more brittle than butterfly wings.
If you blink too hard in the presence of our blinds,
they will break.
And, if you are like the previous owners and try to glue them together, that will fail you, too.
We need a blind fairy at our house, pronto.
Because we’ve got several more months before we are off of the Dave Ramsey plan. And, I’m pretty sure our neighbors would like us to either a) have our blinds down more often or b) not have them look like crap!
PS. Yes, I’m airing our dirty laundry here. I promise we aren’t ghetto. It’s just getting ridiculous. One was broken, then two, then three, and now we are at five six. Know a place to get some good sturdy blinds? Apparently, we need some made of Kevlar.
PPS. Yes, that is snow on the ground. In March. In Atlanta.
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Too bad we aren't neighbors, we could be ghetto-blinded together!
Our pets tear our blinds up. The dogs just step on the blinds to look outside and the cats always sneak behind them (thus bending and breaking them)
I never put our blinds down b/c I'm scared the kids will break them!
I would love to change ours to a Roman shade so it's more durable!
Ughh our dogs decided to destroy a set of our blinds about two weeks after we installed them. Awesome.
Yikes!! That's crazy. I wonder what they are really made of? Ours aren't real wood and have held up great thus far. No idea what they are though?
Twitter: LittleBGCG
March 3, 2010 at 2:06 pm
OMG that's sorta funny but not! I hope you can get some new ones I'll be sending the blinds fairy over asap
Twitter: 7clowncircus
March 3, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Those blind are on their last leg, aren't they?
LOL! That is a little ghetto….but in a funny way.
gotta love the ghetto
time for us to have a window shopping trip!
It's still better than a bed sheet hanging up, lol!
Ha! You could just tape up a sheet like some people I know. : ) Happy WW!
The older they get, the more brittle they become too! I have that problem and that's why I always keep the extras at the bottom of mine. But then restringing them is a horror!
My livingroom blinds are starting to look that way!
Whenever I look at them, I start humming the theme to Sanford and Son…
that is so funny! we put up the CHEAPEST blinds in the rental just to get through and we pulled them up the other day and couldn't get them to come down. i almost peed my pants watching chris try to fix them…i mean cheap!!
Twitter: nightowlmama
March 3, 2010 at 10:40 pm
DId you say Ghetto?
OH MY! It's just good to see that were not the only one's who have a window with blinds that are all messed up
My kids broke some blinds at my parents house too. Some of them just break so easily and it's frustrating and costly to replace them.
Twitter: MamaDweeb
March 4, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Oh dear! That is lovely my dear! I used to drive a Ghetto van, one where we had to duct tape the hood shut. Bein' ghetto freaking rocks. Just sayin' LOL
that is kinda funny and kinda sad all at the same time! Here's to quick couple of months then you are off the DR plan!
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