Open those windows

My daughter never opens her doors or windows, I despair! With a large, often sweating husband and a baby in nappies, their home never smells of fresh air, which as they live just a mile from the sea is a great pity. Now my flat windows only get closed if it's really cold or if I think I might snore loudly during my afternoon nap!

I'm a window opener - love fresh air, but DH has serious true hay fever and can't breathe from March to September. He would love to be able to enjoy the summer, but as soon as the first strimmers appear in spring he becomes truly impossible!

I sleep with a window open but my neighbours have started entertaining most weekends. They can never say their goodbyes in the house but take 15 minutes saying them on the drive with lots of loud chat and car engines running.
This morning it was 12.30 am which of course woke me up and I couldn't get back to sleep so it will be windows closed at the weekend.

wordy17 our neighbours are the same, my husband only commented on this the other day. We have our back door open all day in the fine weather and bathroom window opened first thing in morning, it is ground floor otherwise would be opened all the time. Bedroom windows opened wide each day with top window open all night. We couldnt bear to be in a house with no fresh air.

It's funny, my neighbours are the same in that I have never seen any of their windows open. I don't think it is good for the building if it is not aired.

Lived here 10 years, no idea if neighbours open their windows or not. What business is it of mine?

Shysal, we also have a kamikaze cat. Since we had the loft converted, which gets very hot, we have fitted window restrainers. This means we can have the windows open all the time but he cannot get his head through the gap. It doesn't matter so much on the next floor down as he jumps onto the conservatory roof then the water butt. Very easy to fit and not too obvious. Got them from Amazon, other places probably sell them.

I open downstairs windows when its warm and I'm in. We have the bedroom window open all year but not too wide otherwise one of our cats will try to climb out and he's already had a serious fall from a window when he was with his previous owner!

Awww cherrytree. Poor old thing. We had a lovely Norwegian forest cat once. She was such a climber. It seems an obsession with that breed.

Sorry, but I don't share everyone else's obsession with Fresh Air.

Occasionally I'll open a window or two, but more often than not I won't!

Windows opened every day
It gets rid of the germs and hopefully the aroma of last nights tea!

Jane10 every day one of my inherited Norwegian forest cats who can no longer climb since suffering a stroke,
takes a run at our apple tree scrambles about 4ft up and then slides down cartoon style.
Sits down. licks one paw and tries not look too embarrassed.

I only open windows in winter, scared of insects and creepy crawlies. They are left open in summer when we have visitors, as long as they agree to kill anything undesirable that comes in!

Our solution, the cat dosen't go upstairs.

Jane10! I once saw my Bengal hanging by her front claws from next door's upstairs outside window sill. She managed to haul herself back up, upon which she leapt to their shed roof about 10 metres away. My heart was in my mouth! Since then I have never opened upstairs windows beyond the first stop.

Shysal re kamikaze cats: we once saw this beige object tumble past the sitting room window. On looking out we saw our elderly female birman delicately shaking out her paws and pretending everything was fine and her accidental descent was entirely under control.

I hate those hotels where the window opening is limited to about 2cm "for your safety". For heaven's sake, I'm a grown-up and not about to take flight from some Travelodge/DaysInn/Wetherlodge window!
Shouldn't the onus be on anyone with small children who might be tempted to do something foolish to ask for the windows to be secured?

I'm fairly sure that we have never slept with our bedroom window closed during the last thirty three years!
Right now the windows are wide open in all three bedrooms, the bathroom, on the landing, in the dining room, kitchen, and living room has both side window and french doors open!
It is a glorious afternoon here though ?
The young couple next door to us have two children, aged nine and five, and they never, ever, open any windows! Their house must be stinking,

Nope. Nothing is worth a spider in the house. Not even a crock of gold. I do have a chimney which allows in plenty of fresh air and probably spiders as well!

Worth a few spiders to have a fresh home though?

Bedroom window is flung wide during the day if it's nice and closed too but not shut at night. Bathroom and downstairs loo are open during the day. When I get up for my trip to the bathroom in the morning the second thing I do is open the window. Back to the bedroom fold back duvet and open the window wider.
I'm currently sitting looking at the garden with the patio door slid right back. The back (side actuaĺly) door is ajar. H says I'm a fresh air fiend

At one point this house had eight or maybe nine doors to the outside ( architect designed ) it took time and money to cut the number to five so it's very ( too) easy to have a cross current and slamming doors but I do love a blast of air through to freshen up .

I'm currently trying to hermetically seal my house closed, after a spider the size of a small dog ran across the carpet last night! I'm phobic about eight-legged creatures, unfortunately.

When my windows are open, you can't really see from outside due to the 'stops' on them to prevent children falling out, (and in our case, our rescue cats escaping) so it may be that neighbours are opening windows but unless you're close up, you cannot see it.

I think my neighbors are really odd.
Not only do they never have a window open or a blind drawn, they have a big greenhouse that covers the lounge window ( lounge at back of house)
What's even more wierd is that she is the most wonderful gardener. She can only see the garden from the kitchen.

Do love open windows. The top windows in my bedroom are kept open April - October, and during the warmer months the large casement window also. Normally, I have both the french windows in my through living room and the kitchen door wide open at this time of year (opened as soon as i go down in the morning. However, at present with my very new rescue cat, cannot do this. Have top windows in living room open and will have to put up with this until she is ready to be let into my garden. I also have noted how seldom my neighbours, in my very quiet Close open their windows, and began to think i was peculiar. Good to know there are others out there like me.

I think I may be your neighbour fishpieplease