# BRAND New BLINDS shouldn't break!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-blinds-shouldnt-break/112789>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 7, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-blinds-shouldnt-break/112789 "2002-06-07T04:03:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-blinds-shouldnt-break/112789/1 "2002-06-07T04:03:32Z")

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Dammit!

So my mother bought me these really lovely new venetian blinds. They’re metal, sort of a steel blue color-that looks GREAT with my room.

As most of us know, new blinds, especially venetian blinds, tend to be a bit stiff and stick from time to time until you break them in.

However, to break them in, one shouldn’t have to BREAK them!

They get stuck a lot-and the two sides get uneven. A small, gentle tug at the bottom of the blinds should NOT snap the cord holding the sticks together. So now, brand new, lovely blinds-ruined.

Dammit!

Half the time they get crooked, they don’t open right, there’s a special way you have to tug them…absolute and total pain in the ass!

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-blinds-shouldnt-break/112789/2 "2002-06-07T05:08:47Z")

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Does she still have the receipt? Take 'em back, babe, you’re right, they’re not supposed to do that.

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-blinds-shouldnt-break/112789/3 "2002-06-07T05:50:06Z")

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I hope so, I bloody well hope so.

Dammit, they’re cute, too.

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**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brand-new-blinds-shouldnt-break/112789/4 "2002-06-07T14:28:59Z")

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My new blinds broke, but I bought them at Lowe’s for $7.00

I didn’t expect much from them.  
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Spritle