Curtain Call

When my parents first built their house, they spent so much time, money and effort building the actual house, that a few items were put "on hold" in their eagerness to move in. I can remember, for example, that my parents' bedroom was without a carpet -- plywood -- for the first few months (?) that we lived there. I don't remember this, but my mother has told me that another missing piece of the new house was the living room curtains. She said, for at least a few months, they were forced to tape blankets over the windows to conserve energy and preserve privacy. Now, we've laughed about those early months on several occasions, but NEVER would I have imagined that history would repeat itself with my first house.

Sure enough, after two months of hemorrhaging money as new homeowners, one thing we have yet to spend on is new living room curtains. There are a multitude of reasons for this, but regardless of the reason, Andy and I have been living with our bare windows for over a month now. This has become a problem for two reasons: one, no one wants to live in a fishbowl and two, our darling 100+ year old windows leak heat like an old tea kettle. Given this weekend's temperature plunge and my unwillingness to share my television preferences with the neighborhood, I finally gave in and decided to tape my accidental extra set of dining room curtains over the living room windows.


Classy, I know. Laugh if you want, but we've noticed a significant difference in the 36 hours or so since we put these suckers up. Donations now being accepted to the "Home Ownership Has Turned Us Into a Pathetic Lot Foundation;" tax deductible, of course.