Blindingly Obvious

Here’s the scene our very first morning at our new house:

Did you catch that hotness?  Yeah…we are practically underwear models.  David Beckham & Posh & a denim diaper model.  I’ll let you decide who is who. 

But what else is blindingly obvious?  Here’s another hint…  

Do you see that sunlight?  The FIRST RAY of sunlight?  At early-o-thirty in the morning our windows would have ridiculous amounts of sunlight.  And us Bowers like to sleep like vampires.  So this was death to us.  We practically burned alive.  In fact, we would joke that we could lay in bed and get a suntan. 

But seriously though…our master bedroom wasn’t the only place that needed a bit of sunscreen. 

We also needed some window-blockage in the guest bedroom (since the three windows are visible from the street – hello night time nakedness)…

and in Will’s room (since our little blood-sucker also likes to sleep during the day…and not so much during the night).   And let’s just face it – blankets as window blinds are sooo 2010.

Enter clearance carts at Lowes.

I knew that we would want to swing some cheap blinds (no need to splurge on something that could roll up and practically disappear)…so when I saw a whole slew of these Levolor brand roller blinds, I practically line-backer-tackled Jeremy.  I need a scout to come out and look at me tackle.  I could play for the Steelers.   

And the best part of the whole roller shade lot was the marked down price – was $6.97 – now $1.74 

That is a five dollar savings.  PER WINDOW.  And a little calculator math later- this means that I got all the windows done for less than $15.  That’s cheaper than a bottle of sunscreen.  At least that fancy organic sunscreen that sprays on and that is safe for babies to drink in loo of breastmilk.  The kind of sunscreen that Oprah uses.  Actually I think Oprah doesn’t use spray-on sunscreen.  She probably gets Matthew McConaughey to massage her fancy sunscreen onto her while getting a foot rub from Justin Beiber.  Welcome to my brain.   

The only problem was that while I was pile-driving Jeremy into aisle 7, we realized that we didn’t have our window measurements.  So we simply tag-team tackled an aisle 7 worker (aka we politely asked for their help while acting completely helpless with a toddler in tow) and asked our questions…

WHY are the shades on clearance?  What exactly is wrong with these?  Answer:  nothing.  Levolor simply changed their packaging and decided to get rid of all the shades with outdated packaging. 

Can they cut them here down to size?  And can we buy them now and bring them back later to be cut?  Yes & Yes. 

So that is exactly what we did. 

A little boyfriend screwdriving later….

um…sounded dirty…sorry….

Now we have complete privacy and no more sunburn during sunrise.

So that’s how we roll….

Unintentional pun there…but cheesy and just my style.  haha – double pun.  roll….style….okay…let’s stop before this gets out of hand.

Do you guys have roller blinds?  Or maybe just faux wooden blinds (like we did in our last house)?  Or perhaps you are simply a ‘draw-the-shades’ type that pulls the curtains shut?  Or are you one of those bold folks that likes to flash the neighborhood with uncovered windows?  Mom…put your hand down