Why do we..........

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Hi,

old custom, mark of respect.

Bronnie wrote: »

Yes, as a child in Liverpool in the sixties and seventies, I remember my mum and neighbours always did this as a mark of respect. Don't think anyone does it now though.

Mupette wrote: »

i still do it as a mark of respect..

jackieb wrote: »

None of my neighbours have ever died, but I would close my blinds if they did. I remember my grandma doing it, and I have seen other houses doing it.

delain

WeBeBroke wrote: »

Sometimes I feel a bit sorry for her and think about giving her something to look at other than me watching the telly :rotfl:

According to my mum, before I was born there was a nosy old bird who'd peer in every day on her way past, which annoyed my dad, so one day he just stood in full view of the window and dropped his trousers :eek::eek:

sock-knitter

unfortunatly, having the curtains open during the day dosent stop the burglars. this morning my parents house was broken into, and when the police arrived they had been to two other burglaries this morning, all had their curtains open, as most do during the day

sjc3

I open my curtains/blinds so as the house looks lived in. If they are shut all the time then it may give the wrong type of people the idea that no one lives there often.

Also if some undesirable type was going to break in surely it would be to a house where they couldn't be seen rummaging about.

I have never understood my neighbours who pull all the curtains when they go away on holiday. Talk about ask for trouble. They think it makes the house more secure :rotfl::rotfl:

sjc3

Suzanne_Louise wrote: »

The house I now rent out is straight out onto the street. I have a wooden blind, and curtains at the front downstairs window. One night, I was on the 2 seat sofa next to the window, eating my meal and watching TV, when 2 old ladies walked passed, stopped, then looked in and said 'ooh, look, she's eating her tea!' I turned, looked and them and smiled. Around an hour later, they came back in the other direction, and did the same thing, but said 'oooh, she's finished her tea now!' - I was flabbergasted! Another time, I was on the sofa opposite the window, watching tv and 2 kids walked by and said 'that's the house where that woman sits on the sofa in her dressing gown!' - I didn't make a habit of this!

:T:rotfl:Aren't some people odd:rotfl::T

The nosey parkers of course, not you

toriaterrier

I open my curtains because I like to have light in the room and I like to be able to see it's light outside, even in the winter. It helps with my depression. Plus it makes me feel all homely and housewifey lol. I feel it makes the house welcoming to visitors.

Bronnie

sock-knitter wrote: »

unfortunatly, having the curtains open during the day dosent stop the burglars. this morning my parents house was broken into, and when the police arrived they had been to two other burglaries this morning, all had their curtains open, as most do during the day

I was once burgled .......it was late afternoon on a winter's day and what alerted me to the fact that something was wrong when I got home from work was that the burglers had drawn all the curtains at the front of the house so they could put the lights on and move from room to room unobserved .

monkeychops

The neighbours directly opposite me never open their curtains or blinds in any of the rooms even when they are at home! I find it really weird and would hate to be in a dark house and not see the outside world.

They are south african so perhaps its something they do there?