Excess

I purchased mini blinds for all of the windows in my house. I felt that this was the easiest way to go since I needed eleven of them. They come as a standard of 64" long. I fitted each one to the window and threw the excess slats in a pile. When I was done, I looked at the pile of slats. There must have been over a hundred slats lying there. It looked like such a waste. Not many windows are 64" long, so who decided that should be the measurement? I feel like I am being wasteful throwing away brand new materials but there is no other use for them. There should be a slat buy back program.