Why do you keep your windows open so everyone can see into your house?

[rcrush]

I was walking in this neighborhood the other day and I noticed that at night a lot of people leave their curtains wide open and you can see their entire living-room. With their nice big 50 inch HDTV and game systems and nice furniture. Makes it real easy to decide which house to rob.


Seems like a lot of people do this. I don't understand it myself I'm really paranoid about people seeing into my windows cause I walk around un my underwear all day eating out of a cereal box.

[texanwitch]

1. I agree.

We have a lot of townhouses in my neighborhood with big open windows.

You can see everything inside the room.

[lukasahero]

2. While it's not a problem for us

(our house is set back from the road), I wouldn't be able to tolerate living with the blinds drawn all the time. I would feel like a prisoner in my own home and would get claustrophobic.

And just for the record, while I won't go into the specifics, good luck robbing our house. :hi:

[rcrush]

3. One time I went outside on the porch for a smoke break and could see a family eat dinner for 20 min

They sat there with their blinds drawn all the way open not caring that anyone could see them eating some kind of pot roast and watching tv on their big flat panel.


I would just be so uncomfortable if I had my shades open all the time enough to where the guy across the street smoking cigarettes can see me eat. Its just creepy as hell.

[stray cat]

13. The fact that you watched for 20 min is what I find freaky....

[lukasahero]

22. LOL - thank you

We're not that interesting ourselves so if someone is inclined to watch us do anything for 20 minutes, well, more's the pity. :rofl:

[rcrush]

24. It took 20 min to finish the cigarette WHAT ELSE WAS I GONNA DO?!

[miscsoc]

30. i'll use that excuse

next time i am lurking in the bushes outside my neighbours' windows

"i'm just having a smoke"!

srsly though, I do instinctively look into windows at night, although I must say not for quite a full 20 mins! Certainly not if the best entertainment available in there is a family eating pie.

[gmoney]

4. There's a house around the corner that does that

My side street sort dead ends into the main drag, so when I pull up to that intersection to turn left or right, straight ahead is a picture window and the people's big TV screen clearly visible, so it's sort of a game to try to figure out what show they're watching. sometimes they pull sheers, but usually just wide open. I have sheers on my front window just because I feel like I have the nosiest neighbors on my block.

[CreekDog]

5. Because I want to see outside more than I don't want people to see in

at least sometimes.

[TommyO]

8. This is the way I feel as well

I can understand shutting the front blinds, but my housemates close everything as soon as it starts getting dark, even the back blinds which overlook the water with only seasonal residents on the other side of the lagoon. ARGHH!!!!!

[rcrush]

10. How do you know there arent people hiding in the bushes watching you?

[stray cat]

14. Pretty freaky and desperate people - in addition to stupid since they would not see much

[MicaelS]

6. Lots of people feel like...

They're living in a cage if they can't see outside. I agree with you, I keep my blinds closed all the time, but then I work night, too.

[Pithlet]

17. Yeah, but you can't really see much at night.

I have mine open during the day, and when it gets dark I draw them closed. I agree with the OP. I don't know why I'd want everyone seeing the inside of my house. I don't get why people do that either.

[MicaelS]

19. You REALLY want to keep your blinds closed, especially IF...

You're like Erick Williamson.

The Fairfax County man who was arrested for being naked -- in his home -- was found guilty Friday of indecent exposure, but the judge did not fine him or sentence him to jail.

[Pithlet]

21. I misread your post. I thought you were on the blinds open side of the debate :)

Yeah, you'd especially want to in that case. But I wonder if any of the blinds open at night people ever have an early jammie night? Sometimes I just have those nights where I say "fuck it, I don't care that it's only 7 o'clock. I'm getting in my nightgown" You can't do that if you're a blinds open house! It's all about privacy. It's supposed to be a haven, and how can it be if you've made it all open to the public. Obviously, people who live out in the country have it easier. But us urban/suburbanites don't have a choice.

[LeftinOH]

7. Some folks are just oblivious that nighttime w/lights on & curtains open means...

..you might as well dress up and do a dance routine or something, because you're ONSTAGE -and everyone can see you.

[LanternWaste]

9. As my TV is a mere 32"...

As my TV is a mere 32", I have no game system, and my two-year old furniture is from Haverty's, I do it as a way to discourage people from robbing me.

Well, that I and like to look out the windows in my place from time to time (and I'm not paranoid, so there's that too...).

[Capn Sunshine]

11. I figure it's their problem

but You can't see into my house from the street even though it's all windows. I suppose if you wanted to you could see the kitchen from the hill on the golf course across from us.

But IF I did, it just doesn't bother me. Having large black dogs helps re robbers, but in our neighborhood "outsiders" get a pretty big hassle from the coppers.

[stray cat]

12. So they can see outside?

[stray cat]

15. For that matter - why do people have windows in their houses?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

16. I used to live in a townhouse...

...where I kept the living room drapes closed at all times, because that picture window faced the main drag, directly across from neighbors and along the main walkway.

An neighbor once commented "You always leave your drapes closed" and I replied "YES, because if I don't, everyone can see into my house."

I live in a house now, but I walk out to the sidewalk and adjust the blinds so that I can see out and no one can see in.

Because people DO look.

And they also let their dogs shit on your front lawn, unless you yell at them.

When I catch them, I yell at them. There's nothing worse than trying to pluck moist, steamy dog shit out of blades of grass.

Unless it's having your neighbors see into your house.

OR, unless it's your neighbors looking into your house WHILE shitting on your lawn. That would have to be the WORST.

:rofl:

[rcrush]

23. SEE! And they COMPLAIN When they cant see in your house!

It was that way when I was growing up. I remember once the neighbor lady saying to my mom "Oh you should really keep your curtains open at night it feels much nicer when we can all see each other!" I was 10 and going "WTF this lady wants to spy on us"!


Why are they so interested in your business!?!

[Kali]

18. anybody looking in my windows might want to be wearing a helmet and bullet proof vest

Watson doesn't tolerate anybody walking around in his field of vision so it's pretty hard to sneak up to the gate, much less the house itself.

Oh and there is no tee vee.

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. As soon as the sun goes down, my blinds get closed.

I keep them open during the day so that I can see out, but once I can no longer see out and, therefore, everyone else can see in, I close those fuckers.

[Earth_First]

25. We've lived here three years now...

I haven't locked the doors once since moving in.

[rcrush]

26. You don't lock the doors when you leave?

[Earth_First]

27. Nope.

I live in a semi-rural suburb village.

Never once locked my doors. Never thought about it really.

[Kali]

28. me either

Don't think I can even lock some of them if I wanted to.
Nothing here to take, really - plus who is going to hear the window break if somebody wanted to get in?
4 or 5 people coming and going at all kinds of strange times, no schedules, maybe carrying guns :evilgrin: , dogs etc.

Never mind the fucking border patrol randomly passing by. Good luck.

[Kaleva]

31. I keep the keys for the car in the ignition, have no idea where the keys are for the house doors.

[madinmaryland]

29. STOP LOOKING IN MY WINDOWS, PERVERT!

[rcrush]

32. Stop eating bacon in your underwear.