Window Blinds

As window treatments go, I'm not totally against the aesthetic of blinds. In these modern times, you can get newer and better versions of them, they're good for privacy at the flick of a wrist, and I've seen plenty of blinds that I did not think were all that awful looking. However, a good 99% of the time they are a royal pain, and then I hate them. I suspect it has to do with the ancientness of my dwellings.

My number one complaint about blinds is that they absolutely never pull evenly. I am forever having it happen where one side pulls up more than the other, and then I have to figure out which string I'm supposed to pull more, and then the other side cinches faster, and then it gets stuck like that, and after 15 more minutes you just give up and pull them all the way up because it's the only way to even them out. So awkward.

Possibly worse than this is the daunting task of letting them back down again. You always have to pull the string out and make a giant arc with your arm and/or whole body to bring the string to the other side, where it's supposed to release the blinds. It doesn't at first try, so you have to do this six more times. At that point, they come crashing down and get all bungled, or they come down one side at a time, the way they went up. Or they don't come down at all, and you have to literally pull on the bottom of them and move them down at the same time you release the string.

The strings are always really way longer than they need to be. They dangle on the ground. They get in knots which are impossible to take out again. Animals and small children always play with them, and could choke and die. Or they collect dust and you don't want to touch them.

The blinds themselves collect dust and look awful after a while. Also, somehow a few of them get bent and look completely awful. Usually when you're twisting them open and shut, a few of them do not move in sync with the rest or them so you have to go through and set those ones like all the others.

One time it happened that I was pulling on the string, and the whole hoisting system, the whole thing keeping those blinds up, came flying out of the window and crashed to the ground. I avoid blinds whenever I can.