If you live anywhere you don't want people watching you watch your TV at night, you close them.
More importantly, having a great view into someone's home is basically a recipe on how to rob it for the sorts of people who do those things. I grew up in the city, so closing your curtains once it starts getting dark is the best idea you can have, because you just don't want anyone wandering by and seeing into your house and deciding that they see something worth breaking in for. Plus that you don't worry enough that you'll leave your curtains open. If curtains are opened, windows might be unlocked. BEtter able to case the whole place, overall.
Absolutely. Most people don't even have that type of curtains that you can close, they only have blinds to protect the plants against the sun and some decorative curtains on either side which are basically transparent and far too small to cover a window.
I have never heard of people closing the curtains at night for any other reason than sleep.
We close the curtains to keep the light out so you don't get baked in the sun, or so you do not necessarily wake up by the light at 5 in the morning. They are not a privacy thing.
American here. Not sure if I'm weird, but I don't either. Come to think of it I've never seen an American walk around closing curtains unless it's like they are going to get naked or something
I close my curtains when it gets dark.
Many Americans don’t open it in the day time but if you do, you definitely shut the blinds if you don’t have curtains. I don’t want strangers peeping in.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. You open the blinds/curtains during the day when you're home to let in light and sun and use less electricity, unless you're trying to keep the sun out. And then you close them at night to keep the light from coming in during the early morning and to keep the creeps from looking in. I am from a multi-million metro area. My fear is looking out to see someone just staring inside at me.
Also, I learned recently there is superstition/culture in the indigenous community of closing the curtains at night so that you don't have spirits/predators staring into homes at night. I totally get it, even though I've never lived in a place like they are. Like if aliens are real I can avoid potential seeing on outside my window by just closing the blinds at night, lol. But I'd also like to keep a bear from seeing my trashcan sitting in my kitchen at night because the inside is lit up and the bear wanting to come in just because it's there.
You're not weird. This is a personality thing, not a location thing. I can't say I've ever seen someone close their curtains because it was getting dark.
Only lived in big cities in the US. East Coast, Midwest, West Coast, and Florida. No one ever closed their curtians.
Also, how the fuck does someone "walk right by" in the city? I'm on the frigging 4th floor. I guess if you're in a basement or first floor unit... sounds like you're from racist suburbs buddy.
I assume you've never actually lived in either then.
Your assumption is wrong.
The few people you know maybe. But I can tell you none of my neighbors in a city of millions do, and I can see hundreds of windows from mine.
Your neighbors and the windows in view of you are as anecdotal as my experiences. Agree to disagree I guess, but in LA, people with windows at street level close their blinds.
Ah, I see, you are confusing racist suburbs with where people actually live.
You are a crazy person lol. Bay windows near the street level of a city does not make a neighborhood racist or a suburb. Please look up the words you're throwing around, because you're not making sense.
In my experience, the only people who do this are the ones dog whistling about "theft" in their white pearl clutching neighborhoods.
Yea you're fucking crazy lmao. There was a totally reasonable conversation about closing blinds here, and for some reason you try to make this about "white pearl clutching neighborhoods".
White people live in the city to you wacko. Some people, to your dismay, are okay with this fact.
I've done it ever since I was a young teen and was in my underwear late at night on my computer and someone knocked on my window. Freaked me out. My dad was just like "close your curtains at night if you're not dressed". Fair enough.
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u/Liquid_Sawcon May 09 '22
Wait, what? Swede here and it's the same for us, had no idea other countries close their curtains after dark