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Replacing a broken set of blinds in my house and apparently no one sells the old standard kind where you pull the cord to raise them, I guess because kids and/or pets could tangle in the cord? Bit of an education in miniblinds today.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Username checks out. If they weren't so awful, maybe people would care about defending them, but there's just all-around awful. They're uglier, harder to use, and seem to frequently get damaged (probably mostly from people trying to fight with them or just bending them out of the way because damaging them is worth it to avoid dealing with them...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's always roller blinds for the ones among us to whom mini blinds are too difficult to use.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it that they're "too difficult to use" or is it just that they're a pain in the ass? Because it's the latter in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In my experience, one begets the other.

It's a pain in the ass because its difficult to use. Or, at least more difficult than it needs to be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but they also break really easily, and then you have the fun of either trying to get the string fixed or back on the track or whatever or just replacing the whole thing.