This is a pretty interesting product which I recently came across when trying to find out exactly what I needed and didn't need, to make life easier with my first baby. The Gro Anywhere Blackout Blind from the Gro Company is a really good idea - it's basically a universal blackout blind that you can put on any window.

If you'd like to buy a Gro Anywhere, they're usually available on Amazon and I have seen the price fluctuate between £20 and £30.

The blackout blind is made from a dark, light-weight material, and there are suckers all round the edge to stick to your window. The blind is very big, so would probably fit on just about any window in a normal home. It's also adjustable, with tabs you can pull to make sure that it fits your window well.

I first used it on my spare room when some family members with young kids were staying over. Usually the room is quite bright from street-light leakage, and gets bright quite early in the morning too. When we used the Gro Anywhere blackout blind, the room was very dark indeed, almost pitch black!

Vik1 over on hotukdeals had this to say about the Gro Anywhere Blackout Blind:

These are brilliant - we use it in the house - makes the room much darker and helped us get an extra hour sleep every morning!

I will say that it's probably a 2 person job to get it up properly. Having 4 hands to make sure all the little suckers stay stuck, is very useful.

When staying at my sister's house a few months ago, the toddler would wake up very early unless all the light was blocked out from the room. We were wrapping towels and duvets round the curtain rail, just to try and make the room a little bit darker. I wish I had known about the Gro Anywhere back then!

Do you have one? What do you think of it?

OHHH genius!  GENIUS I tell you!  You can't beat a dark room for encouraging small people to pay a visit to the Land of Nod!

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I am a HUGE fan of shutting out the light when it's time to sleep for ME as well the kids.  Daylight - time to be awake; darkness - time to  s  l  e  e  p.  This is all very well and good at home but what about when you go away?  I have countless, now humourous, tales about fashioning DIY blackout blinds from almost anything I could lay my hands - towels, sheets, blankets, coats, even taping black bin liners up at the windows (hey it worked!).

HOW much easier it would have been if this genius piece of kit had been around back then!  Just pick it up, take it with you, stick it up at the offending light-letting-in window with its suction cups and VIOLA! Instant darkness, instant night time, instant(ish) sleeping child; perfect!

Even though it's an impressive 200cms x 135cms it will fit small windows too cleverly using, as one reviewer put it, 'those elasticated waistband thingys you sometimes get on kids trousers' to shrink it to fit;  odd shaped windows will be no match for the Gro Anywhere blind either.

It's currently selling for £30 in Mothercare and John Lewis and £31 @ Kiddicare, but Amazon have come up trumps again on price and you can buy the Gro Anywhere blind for £23.95 with free delivery!  Good old Amazon, what would we do without them?!