Our ceiling fan broke the other day. Oh great. At least $100 for a new one, I thought. Then BAGD decided to take it apart and poke at the innerds. He found what broke and took it over to Home Depot. $2.89 later, he returned with some electric doo-hickey that he promptly replaced. Fan fixed. Hooray for us!
We have 2 giant windows in the basement. Real sun-magnifying windows, “raise the temperature 25 degrees in the summer’ windows. They are covered in really cute curtains I bought at IKEA a few years ago. The whole theme of the basement walls and their murals comes off these curtains. Plus, I really like them. Problem is that they are paper thin and they do nothing to block the sun, even when closed. So, I bought 10 yards of light blocking curtain liner at Fabric.com and sewed giant panels to the back of each curtain. Just attached the panel at the top and let it drape behind the window. The liner was $5.98 a yard (free shipping) and I bought too much. But I think if I had measured better the whole thing could have been done for $45-50. They really work, the basement is very dark when the curtains are drawn. Its been cool here for a few days, but I cannot wait to see how they do on a sunny day. I priced new light blocking curtain panels on Amazon and they would have been at least $150 for the set of windows.
Its so easy to throw something out when its “broke” or “wrong”. It makes me proud of us when we take the time to stop and think about how we can fix it, or make it do. I am trying to do that more.
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