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A Little Throwback Thursday-Let the Light Shine in




 
 
I have a question for you.


Do you open your blinds during the day or do you keep them closed?

I HAVE to open all my blinds when I get up in the morning.  When I say I HAVE TO, I mean it.  If I can't see out it makes me nervous.  It also makes me depressed.  I know a lot of people that never open their blinds or curtains and I don't see how they can make it through the day.
I guess I have some kind of disorder, but I can't function until I have them all open.  I even open blinds for rooms that we don't go in.  I LOVE LIGHT!!!!!!! 

Comments

Natasha said…
I am exactly like you. I can't handle a room with the curtains closed. The more light the better for me!
11:42 AM
Unknown said…
I open them, too. I can't stand to not be able to see out. I keep the ones on the back open all of the time. Our house is situated such that no one can see. But, as soon as it's light outside I open all of the front blinds.
11:42 AM
Mary Ella said…
I HAVE to open mine as well. I do that first thing!!!
11:42 AM
sherry.rison said…
Laurie, I'm with you. I have to have light, when the blinds are closed I feel sad. When I go in someone's house that is dark, it depresses me. I think you're very normal.
11:43 AM
J. Johnson said…
It looks like I'm in the minority. I do open my back door curtains (sliding - opens on to the deck), and my front room shades are always up, but I rarely open the other curtains. Perhaps it is because the top front half of my house is all window, with no covering. I like the house a bit darker.
11:45 AM
J. Johnson said…
It looks like I'm in the minority. I do open my back door curtains (sliding - opens on to the deck), and my front room shades are always up, but I rarely open the other curtains. Perhaps it is because the top front half of my house is all window, with no covering. I like the house a bit darker.
11:45 AM
Unknown said…
YES!!! It's the very first thing I do every single morning and I open them in ALL rooms no matter if we are in them or not. The sun pours in the back of our house and blinds us right now since there are no leaves on the trees. We have to close them to sit and eat dinner without squinting and that kills me. Soon that will change once the trees are full with leaves and blocking the sun. I LOVE a home with lots of windows (opened to let the light in of course).
11:46 AM
Melissa Jo said…
hubby "HAS" to have them closed, says it glares on the T.V., but I'm like you it kills me!!!
11:53 AM
Tracy said…
Yep. I open all the blinds in the house every day. I don't understand how people keep them closed. I do keep one set closed at the back of the house because it makes a glare on the t.v. but will open them if no one is watching.
12:55 PM
Lauren and Eddie said…
I open all of the blinds along the back of our house facing the fenced-in, private backyard. I don't open any of the front until I'm ready for the day - and even then I open two windows in the den and that's IT. When I was a teenager I had a peeping tom many, many, many times that I had to call the police on (we never learned who it was) so I'm a bit anxious about open windows, BUT the sunlight makes me so much happier and I'm learning to enjoy that more and more as I get older.
1:27 PM
Kelli & Joel said…
New reader here, found you from "Kelly's Korner".. I thought the opening blinds was funny, because my husband and some friends of ours just had this conversation the other day.. We do not open our blinds, but its simply because the neighbors that live right across from us, stand in their doorway and try to look in our house when the blinds are open.. Seriously, they are some strange people.. We use to open them on pretty days, and even our front door, and my cat would sit in the doorway, and watch the squirrels and birds, and I walked into my living room and the mother and one of the daughters of the neighbors was literally moving around trying to look into the house.. It made me very uncomfortable, and I had to close them.. as soon as I closed them the mother sent the daughter over to ask why we closed the blinds, because they were trying to see what we were doing...
2:25 PM
His Doorkeeper said…
We don't have any curtains in our house except shutters at the front. (We have no close neighbors) but I do have shades in my bedroom which I open every morning when I do my Bible readings/devotions. I look out and see the sun coming up and it just starts my day! Can't stand to live in a dark house!!
2:37 PM
Tara G. said…
Ok, this would be a bit of ocd in my life...I do like light, but I don't like it bleaching out my stuff, so I'm picky about HOW the blinds are tilted. {I KNOW.} Maybe it's because we move so much and I'm constantly dealing with filing claims/repairing furniture combined with once I finally decide on something for the house, I want it to last. One of our furniture repairmen demonstrated to me how they ought to be tilted to not bleach out the wood, too. When we lived in Ukraine, our last apartment building was round and our apt was about half of a floor- the whole thing was windows!
3:52 PM
Maryellen said…
I open my blinds like the light also. But I also close them at 5 pm on the button if I am home. Something my grandmother always did and she raised me. hah Guess it stuck !
4:43 PM
Gail said…
I enjoy light, too. I never put in my window screens because they darken the room too much. I don't know why people leave screens in year-round...windows get dirty and no clear view outside.
Gail
Annapolis, MD
5:03 PM
This American Wife said…
There is nothing wrong with you. I open blinds as part of my morning ritual.
9:37 PM
Jody said…
I agree! As soon as my husband leaves for work, I open the blinds in my living area even though it is still dark. I *love* watching the sun come up.

We live in a hurricane area. If we get a warning, our hurricane boards go over all the windows and glass doors. I cannot stand it, and as soon as danger has passed, I want those boards OFF. I can always feel the anxiety building until they do.
3:55 AM
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6:10 AM
Kim Oliver said…
I OPEN mine everyday rain or shine. I feel depressed and closed in if they are closed. I don't close mine until the sun is down!
7:25 AM
Angie said…
I actually keep mine closed BUT I keep our front door open because we have a screen door. It's the first thing I do in the morning. On beautiful days like today, I have my doors fully open letting the breeze pass through!!
10:08 AM
Unknown said…
Hi Laurie, I found your blog from reading Kelly's Korner blog. I too open my blinds in the morning. The only time they stay closed during the day is in the summertime. Keeping them closed then helps to keep out the sun and heat!

The pics of your girls are so precious. It's nice to look back and see how little they were.
10:44 AM
Jill said…
That's the FIRST thing I do too...I have to have my blinds open!! I need sunlight. :)
6:10 PM
Aimee said…
Yep. Open the bedrooom curtains as soon as I get up and then go around the house opening the shutters. But...I have to close the shutters and curtains as soon as the sun goes down because it creeps me out for it to be dark outside with people potentially looking in. Weird I know.
2:10 PM
Katie @ Team Skelley said…
First thing I do in the morning is open our drapes to see what the weather looks like - I have to have lots of light or it does depress me during the day,

My MIL never opens any of her blinds and it drives me batty when we visit. It is like a cave. Confession: I might sneak around and open random blinds.
5:17 AM
ckl616 said…
Hi Laurie, I'm also here from Kelly's page. I used to open all my blinds every morning! Just like clockwork, I called it 'waking up the house.' Then we had to move to South Dakota where winter winds and snow last at least six months out of the year (or more)! I had always wanted Plantation Sutters so I put them in this house....not realizing what an insulating factor they would be against the freezing temperatures! So I keep them closed partly due to heating costs and it freezing in the house, but also, I hate blizzards and gloom and wind, so I find if I keep them closed then I can just ignore what's going on outside and pretend I'm back in sunny CA at a beach house or a country cottage! My perfect denial and some great music work for me!
2:27 PM
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2:50 PM
ckl616 said…
Totally off subject, OK...but I read your Blog one day when you were talking about having very thin hair and not enough hair to go around. I wanted to tell you about something amazing that I've found! I have light to medium blonde hair, very thin on top and the sides, and due to some extreme stress and major moves and deaths in the family and on and on, I started losing what little hair I had left, especially on top...making it look receding like 'male pattern baldness!' SO, there's a product called Great Hair Day (Fill-In Powder) by Joan Rivers, and it is now my Holy Grail of hair products!!! Even my hair stylist is impressed and recommending it to others! It is like an eyebrow powder with a great long-handled brush, and you just stipple it around the bare places and where you have bald scalp showing through, and I kid you not, it is amazing! Truly Transformational! It's sold on QVC (I know....Ugh!). As well as I've seen it in several Specialty Catalogs that I receive. It doesn't come off until you shampoo it out so no fear of it running down your face or something. I wear the Blonde, which they say is the 'Universal Color' if you're not sure which one to get, but I'd say you would use the Brunette. What it does is just create what looks like a shadow or depth where normally you'd have scalp showing through...I just know you'd love it! And please let ke know if you try it!

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2:55 PM
Chef Jeff said…
I wake up, wash my face, and open ALL my blinds. I love light in my house. It gets me going in the morning
9:01 PM
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