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Bright LED Streetlight Outside Flat Purchase

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  • pinkteapot
    pinkteapot Posts: 8,044 Forumite
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    OP - your attitude towards posters on this thread is disgusting, particularly your sarcastic responses to AdrianC. The forum rules include 'be nice to all Moneysavers'. I've reported your posts.

    https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/site/forum-faqs/?_ga=2.236306497.1344894664.1576314246-683537623.1551163027
  • diggingdude
    diggingdude Posts: 2,499 Forumite
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    gomer wrote: »
    I was going to suggest painting the windows black actually. Cheaper than bricks & much more mse! :cool:
    Good point :money:
    An answer isn't spam just because you don't like it......
  • AFF8879
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    I don’t understand the point blank refusal to get adequate blinds / curtains ... surely OP realises you can leave them open to get natural light as desired, and only close them as necessary?!

    Or is it a case that OP enjoys the natural lighting provided through closed, thinner curtains? In that case, just have a combination of both and close/open as necessary.
  • SnooksNJ
    SnooksNJ Posts: 829 Forumite
    nkarma wrote: »
    Adrian, you are totally right and the smartest person I ever did meet. I don't know what I would have done without you.

    I never really considered there is a lot of ambient light in London. Wow! Mind blown.

    There is so I would go with something like this.
    https://www.struttandparker.com/properties/inchmarnock

    A bonus is you don't have to worry about creepsters looking in your windows.
  • kinger101
    kinger101 Posts: 6,659 Forumite
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    AFF8879 wrote: »
    I don’t understand the point blank refusal to get adequate blinds / curtains ... surely OP realises you can leave them open to get natural light as desired, and only close them as necessary?!

    Or is it a case that OP enjoys the natural lighting provided through closed, thinner curtains? In that case, just have a combination of both and close/open as necessary.

    I think this is a Goldilocks problem
    "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius
  • kinger101
    kinger101 Posts: 6,659 Forumite
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    diggingdude wrote: »
    Good point :money:

    Painting your eyelids black would be cheaper still.
    "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius
  • Durham_andrew
    Durham_andrew Posts: 47 Forumite
    What about black out face mask around £2 of eBay? Works well for me when on nights
  • Paparika
    Paparika Posts: 2,476 Forumite
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    use a sleep mask, cheaper than blinds etc
    Life is about give and take, if you can't give why should you take?
  • jimbog
    jimbog Posts: 2,283 Forumite
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    Sunglasses?
    Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
  • Yalpsmol
    Yalpsmol Posts: 222 Forumite
    We have privacy film on most of our windows (to stop the dog looking out at the waterfowl/wildlife).
    We have an LED street light about 10m from the house (lighting up an alley- so Im glad its there). I cant say Ive tried to sleep with our (black out) curtains OPEN at night but Ive slept downstairs no problem. So maybe a simple film would help.

    You probably will never be able to find out though as you cant experiment with a house you dont own so I would pull out.
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