We don't talk enough about Big Curtain.
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Just to go off on a bit of a tangent - but I promise, it's relevant(ish):
Decades ago, some friends were buying a house from an elderly couple. As our friends were just starting out, they negotiated a price for the carpets and curtains that were already hanging in the house, to save them having to fork out for new ones.
All went smoothly, until the day they moved in, to find carpets and curtains in every room - but not the ones that had been there at the house viewing. All of the 'new' curtains were six inches too short for the windows, and none of the carpets actually reached the walls.
When they enquired about this, the vendors smugly said that whilst they *had* bought some carpets and curtains, technically they were never promised the *original* ones. Apparently, the couple's daughter had swapped the nice ones in the house for her own grotty ones.
Lawyers were briefly involved. Our friends got compensation (and some pretty grubby threatening phone calls off the daughter).
People do bad things when under the thrall of Big Curtain.
@Badgardener That's amazing. People are amazing. If only people like that put their creative thinking to good use instead of bad!
"People do bad things when under the thrall of Big Curtain."
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We don't talk enough about Big Curtain. Nobody has ever moved from one home to another and been able to just hang up the same curtains. Nobody they know can use the curtains they now can't use because the curtains don't fit anyone else's windows either. No curtain has ever fit any other window. Not once, not ever, never in the history of the human world.
@CiaraNi I’ve always left curtains behind for precisely that reason. What’s the point of taking them away when you aren’t going to be able to use them anywhere? To me, carpets and curtains are as much part of the house as the paint or wallpaper on the walls.
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@CiaraNi I’ve always left curtains behind for precisely that reason. What’s the point of taking them away when you aren’t going to be able to use them anywhere? To me, carpets and curtains are as much part of the house as the paint or wallpaper on the walls.
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@CiaraNi I’ve always left curtains behind for precisely that reason. What’s the point of taking them away when you aren’t going to be able to use them anywhere? To me, carpets and curtains are as much part of the house as the paint or wallpaper on the walls.
@nusher It's a great idea to leave them to the new people if they want them and if you can. Perhaps for a nominal price.
I think people sometimes take curtains with them in a flash of optimism, especially if they were chosen to match their decor and furniture. They hope to tailor them to fit. And they may hang them in some make-shift way, not fitting properly, at first, just for privacy in a new place until they can either tailor the old ones or get new ones.
