How Craigslist Saved the Blinds

The process of replacing our blinds began when we moved into this house. The whole house had the old 1"metal blinds, except for our bedroom and Ainsley's bedroom, which were blindless. We purchased our first 2 sets of blinds from Home Depot. The feeling in the house during the installation was something like *%##*@&!. Enough said. When we were ready to replace the rest of the blinds we were told about a place called justblinds.com. We carefully measured all of our windows and sent in our order. We were very excited because the blinds were the same price as the ones at home depot, but we didn't have to take off the length. Taking off the length had contributed to the previous #*&%# feelings so we felt we were a step ahead this time. When the blinds arrived I made John start installing immediately because I was excited to get rid of our old broken blinds. He had his brothers drill this time so things should have gone smoothly. John began installing the far right blind in the above picture. After some harsh words he finally had the mounts in and we were ready just to pop the blinds in place. They didn't fit. I immediately started cursing justblinds.com. Then we started looking at the measurements we had written down. Justblinds was not to blame, it was us. We were the big morons. #*%&$%*% like feelings were really bad now. How could we measure 3 windows wrong. We went through the rest of our list and we had managed to measure the rest of the house right, just not the 3 living room windows. We wrote down the width measurement 1 inch too big on all three.
So how did craigslist save us you ask. Well, after talking to just blinds they sent us a replacement order at half off. It was cheaper just to order new blinds than cut down the old ones. So we got all 3 additional blinds for $57. At this point we were happy we had only made a $57 mistake and not a $120 mistake. After talking to some people and after selling our old desk on craigslist I decided to list the blinds and see what would happen. People will buy anything right? Even if the blinds were cut to a very precise measurement. Well today I got a call and someone that lives just around the corner is on his way to buy our extra blinds for $50. Awesome!!!
I installed the last 3 blinds this afternoon. Actually John had already installed the hardware. I just had to pop in the blinds and put on the valance. Now the house is completely done. No more blinds to install. They look great. And best of all, our huge, moronic mistake only cost us $7!