mini blinds, vertical blinds, HEADACHE  

To clean blinds, I take them down and hose them off with the shower head. If they are really nasty, I may use some bleach water or other cleaning product. I hate curtains actually. I think they are a pain in the butt. LOL I would rather have blinds. Yes the ones they use in apartments are cheap and usually break easily. I like the sturdier ones for a home. Right now I am in an apartment, so I have the yucky, white, cheap ones. I prefer the sturdier, even wood ones.

I live in a rented townhome, and well the mini-blinds are a pine in the badonka donk to keep up, they are the first

So when we leave we will have to replace already 2 blinds.

I have no good ways to do it, but I'm tempted to take them all down until we leave and just store them and put up curtains....

Mooch

I am more the Curtain type as for cleaning them it is not easy unless you can get one of those Blind cleaners that we can get here but I found that they useless to so the only way round it you have now is to wipe them with a damp Cloth one ata time and that is time consuming

When I was a young girl, my father would take the blinds out of the brackets on the window and but them in a nice soapy bath in the bath tub. If they are really dirty you can use a sponge or soft bristle brush. After you let the dirty soapy water out use plain water to rinse them. Let them stay in the tube for a few minutes, use the cord that you use to open the blinds to pull them up so that they will be easy to carry. Or, if blind is dripping water, you can just carry them and put them back in the brackets. Now let them down and wipe them with a towel or paper towels. Not hard at all. I did them when I was 10 years of age.