When we moved into this house, we had some really old blinds in the kitchen area... and for the moment, we are sticking with them... even though they are about 25 years old according to the supplier dates and we want to eventually move onto something else. But they work, and we have other places to spend the money on the house!

Anyway, my wife was wanting to take them all down to clean them... it is a the end of year cleaning rampage time... and while I was popping them out of the brackets, I was looking at one of the ones where the bundling string that helps roll the blind up when you retract it had broken loose of its anchoring.

So, we had thought that the string had snapped completely... and we were just dealing with one blind not being able to pull up completely... but when I had a closer look at how the other ones were done, I saw that it had just busted out of the anchoring and that I could probably thread it back through and re-anchor it again.

... and threading it was tedious... not hard, just annoying... after a few individual pass throughs, I started to group them up, and then I found that bending the string back upon itself made for an easier way to pass it through rather than trying to stick the fraying end through a small hole...

And then a quick pull through of the anchoring section with a little twig, and then re-knotting seems to have done the trick for re-anchoring the string. Hopefully it will hold for the next decade or so...

... damn it... my wife just pointed out that I had threaded ONE of the metal sheets back to front, which means that it doesn't turn the same way as all the others... so, when they are all open, there is a single closed one... ARRGHGHGHGHGHG... so, I'm going to have to take it down and rethread the whole bloody thing again... at least I know the tricks to make it faster now!

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