Holiday Curtains

[Maydup]

Another thread has prompted me to ask what you all do with your curtains when on holiday.

Leave them open, draw them closed, pull them slightly closed?

Assuming I dont have a magical electronic system that is going to do draw them for me, nor a neighbour of friend to pop in and out, what is the safest position to leave my curtains in while I am away?

[Mamyalynne]

I draw mine in the lounge and main bedroom and leave a couple of lamps on timers for evenings.

I do have a direct neighbour keeping an eye open though.

[Maydup]

Yes, I have a lamp on a timer too. That reminds me to alter it now that the evenings are dark again.

[gness]

I leave mine downstairs facing the street closed.....upstairs just a little open but for odd days in the week or so before I go away I leave downstairs closed all day or completely wide open.....so I don't look as if I have a regular pattern.....

Lights on timers and three cameras.....one facing the back garden....one the front and one inside in the sitting room...and neighbours do the post and bins....

I now sound completely paranoid! :-)

[-SharonA-]

I leave my living room curtains shut and have lights on a timer.
My bedroom is at the back, so not so worried about those curtains.

[Prudie]

As I mentioned on other thread I never draw curtains downstairs but when away I half close the bedroom ones and leave about 5 different lights on timers. It is difficult, my neighbours always draw all their blinds when away so in the daytime I always know they're not at home and this might be obvious to others too.

[Bathsheba]

We never go away, but I have lamps on timers in hall, living room, and kitchen ;)

Baths
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[sunny-dave]

I never draw curtains when I'm at home - so it would make no sense to draw them when I'm away.

I have networked cameras, timers and internet controllable sockets ...

[kirstybeebee]

I have the blinds closed and three timers to switch on and off at different time intervals. This once fooled one of my neighbours who thought I must have a relative who went in daily to check everything was ok. Good job he didn't think I was being burgled and made a call to the cops!

[marval]

We leave all our curtains open, we do have lights on timers though.

[ummmm]

I get one of my kids to stay here.

[EcclesCake]

If I remember to lock the front door I've achieved something. Have never bothered with curtains, lamp timers or unplugging stuff.

[ummmm]

HaHa...you sound like me :-)

One time my son woke me early in the morning saying there was a man asleep on the living room floor and it looked like he'd been sick. I got up and there was my cousin asleep in his own vomit :-D He'd already fallen asleep in the park and someone stole the watch off his wrist. He's not much of a drinker....he paid for the carpet to be cleaned...

[EcclesCake]

The only thing I am fastidious about is clearing the fridge I don't want come home to rank milk or rancid veg decomposing in the salad draw.

[1ozzy]

And here was I thinking people must have different curtains to hang during the holidays.

DOH!!!!!

[mikey4444]

Maydup....my Butler opens and shuts the curtains, at regular intervals throughout the week, when I am on my hols.

[1ozzy]

You wish Mikey ;-)

[TWR]

No matter what some people do Maydup, the next thing you see they are on F.B telling people they are away for "How many weeks" silly people.